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A Christmas Star (2021)
pleasant story and acting, but not astronomical at all.
It was a nice story and acting was good, but it was hard for me an old astronomer type to not ignore the "Literally Glaring" faults in the filming. Come on, massive lights at the mountain cabin with no electric service there? Roaring fire and lights right next to the telescope. Massive lights below and only turned off the extra Christmas lights.
Light reflecting off the atmospheric humidity would have destroyed any good telescope reading at the cabin. Total lights off for quarter mile and a flashlight only used to setup is all that is allowed. Been then and done this often. But then they could not film a true professional astronomer in action in total darkness.
So I let that all pass and enjoyed the story and good acting by all. They should have at least not placed 1000 Christmas lights on a remote mountain cabin. It did not look remote at all.
I do give them credit for at least trying an astronomical story line. GAC has been good with their stories and acting but too glitzy for this story to come true.
The Holiday Fix Up (2021)
perfect asis - no fix-up needed for this movie
Plenty of fun activities, plenty of good chemistry by all, Ryan and Jana smoke it in this show. Lots of plot twists to keep you entertained and guessing. Jana who always does well in these outdoors type movies excelled. And Ryan found more of his softer qualities to put it all together nicely.
Well done. I will be watching this a couple more times as I always like a good fixer upper type of show with romance thrown in.
One Royal Holiday (2020)
delightful, just delightful
Casting - spot on.
execution - spot on especially considering the pushed filming schedule.
character development and exploration of cultural differences was just fine
the queen was just a riot.
Anna is just the kind of person to lift everyone up.
My actions speak louder than words. (1) I have watched the whole show now 4 times. And the first hour is just a riot and I have watched it 8 times. Some scenes 15 times.
How does this movie make me feel? Happy and delightful. And appreciated the uplifting tone and lack of harsh drama during character exploration.
Just Add Romance (2019)
A Hallmark friendly and delightful cooking competition
Only on Hallmark do they produce such a nice, friendly and respectful competition. In this case it was a cooking competition. The leads were both super and had such a natural flow and attraction that I got totally wrapped up in their enjoyment of each other.
The plot had a few twists with conflicts, but they were resolved using respect and openness. Such a a great thing to see and I would recommend children see how conflict in competition can be handled with respect and openness.
Luke was super as the lead male and I have liked him in his other Hallmark shows. I hope he gets more Hallmark shows or maybe in a mystery series.
Meghann was also great but was new to me and Hallmark.
The supporting cast filled in nicely and the filming locations were elegant and nice to see. Very enjoyable 2 hours and I will watch it several more times just to enjoy their joyful journey.
Supergirl: Parasite Lost (2018)
Mehcad Brooks needs to go - for a long time now..
For several years I have been saying that Mehcad Brooks needs to go. I was attacked years ago for saying this in various places as many expressed their like for him. Now it is becoming obvious to all that Mehcad Brooks has no acting talent and is always flat on the screen.
He never has had any chemistry with any of the forced female relationships. Frankly he has no chemistry with anybody on the show - male or female. He has always been dead weight for the show from the very beginning.
His casting as Jimmy was a mistake from the beginning and the character of Jimmy is a major mistake on this show. Jimmy is a secondary character.
Second and high billing for Mehcad still in the credits. For this reason and many others I much prefer the old Lois and Clark show with Dean Cain and Teri Hatcher to this Supergirl show. The writing was better, acting better, stories better, and chemistry good.
Just let Supergirl be Super (which has not happened for a year now) and reduce James to a small bit part with his camera. Your Fired.
Supergirl: Fallout (2018)
A full hour of liberal misinformation lecturing
Wow a full hour of liberal misinformation lecturing and bad writing and bad acting. Well back to Xena Warrior Princess for real heroes and real acting and much better fight scenes.
The stage is significantly set for the season and I will not be watching any more.
Supergirl: Not Kansas (2018)
another poorly written social agenda episode
When was the last time Supergirl was Super? Not hardly at all this season. The first half of the season was better and now the show seems to be mostly social agenda episodes with no real action. The scripts no longer have mystery and high adventure and seem mostly to jump from one social item to the next.
Is Supergirl being written off this season and turned into a girl who wears a cape and parades around. They may try hard to save the season on the final episode but maybe not. They know they have season 4 already to push more social agenda episodes and then the series will die if it does not get better..
Why cannot Supergirl just be mostly Super? And do mostly super things. Even fighting natural disasters would be great.
I was a huge fan but not so much anymore. I used to On Demand replay an episode 10-12 times. Now not at all.
I think Kriesberg and Berlanti are destroying Supergirl on purpose and the excellent acting Melissa Benoist seems to see that and looks to be moving into other options in case.