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My Name Is Emma And I Watch Christmas Romance Movies.
I spend most of my time being a little bit of a snob about movies. I have most of an arts degree during which Cinema Studies was one of the things I was enrolled in. I recoil in horror when I find out my partner hasn’t watched some of the classics of cinema. I then try to educate him and sit him down to watch things like Clockwork Orange and the Shining when a conversation about Kubrick comes up. Thankfully he had seen 2001, so we didn’t have to talk about taking ‘a break’. I used to co-own the Criterion Collection laserdiscs and be able to talk about Clint Eastwood as an auteur, and I still own Monaco’s How to Read a Film.
So explain to me my obsession with Hallmark Christmas Romance Movies?
It started last year with The Christmas Prince. I then watched the rest of those, being very disappointed when the lead actors refused to come back for the sequels. The replacement actors were just not the same. I am not saying the previous performances had been Oscar-worthy, but they were enjoyable within the limitations of the script. So this year when the Christmas Romances started rolling into my recently addeds, I couldn’t wait to get stuck in, starting with The Holiday Calendar ‘A struggling but talented photographer inherits an antique holiday advent calendar, the contents of which seem to predict the future. Will this magical calendar lead her to love this holiday season?’.
