A Family Christmas Gift 6/10
This past weekend L. and I watch some holiday movies. Four of them to be exact. The first one we watched was called A Family Christmas Gift. This was a Hallmark movie so there was not all of the drama that I was expecting from a typical Christmas movie involving black people. This is not a Thanksgiving With The Carter 2 situation where you get lost in the woods and attacked by a bear or what appears to be a man and a very cheap bear costume with the help of marijuana and two black people named Ashford and Simpson. I'm not going to get into that right now.
This movie is about a woman named Amber who works at a publishing company for a magazine because everyone works selling books or magazines for some reason. She plans to work over the holidays and not visit her family until she gets passed over for promotion. Now all of a sudden family is important and she heads back home to Colorado to spend time with her aunt who I predicted was going to sing by the end of the film. I kept telling L. that there was going to be another man that gets in between her and this music teacher who teaches high schoolers but there is not a single teenager in this film. He picks her up from the airport and she thinks that he is just a regular driver so she doesn't talk to him and his rude. This music teacher has a daughter and after meeting Amber and finding out that she is from New York wants to act like her. I suspected that this little girl's mother had died but it turns out she just moved to California. This is a typical “we need to raise money to help fund the school music program oh no this went wrong oh yeah we can do this instead and everyone falls in love.” This was not a bad movie it just had no stakes to it and my raggedy ass is not used to this level of not drama.
Holly Robinson Peete
Dion Johnstone
Patti LaBelle
The Christmas Clapback 3/10
There's not too much to say about this movie called The Christmas Clapback. It is about three sisters who miss their mother who was a great cook and they cook and enter a contest every year. A new neighbor shows up and she is a social media influencer and very popular. She enters the contest as well and wins the first round and they win the second round and then there's a tie at the end which is never happened before. And then they find their mother's old cookbook even though they believed that she memorized all of her recipes. That's about it. No actual drama or anything though they allude to the fact that one of the mothers is a lesbian they are cowards and refused to say this out loud. There was not a single back that was clapped this entire movie. So yeah.
Nadine Ellis
Porscha Coleman
Candace Maxwell
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