Posted on Dec 16, 2023
One last Hanukkah gift from Hallmark: 'Round and Round' is a really fun romcom
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"I've always defended my love of Hallmark movies — the Christmas trees, the meet-cutes, the small-town businesses struggling to avoid being taken over by people from the big city. But there's no denying that they are of a type, shall we say, and many times, their precise pleasure is that you wouldn't mistake them for anything else. Furthermore, even as Hallmark has expanded its vision with changes like introducing LGBTQ+ characters and stories now and then, their efforts to expand beyond Christmas into Hanukkah have sometimes felt a bit tentative.
Imagine my delight at finding Round and Round, a lovely new entry that's a solid light romantic comedy that you wouldn't be surprised to find somewhere else besides Hallmark, and that also embraces Hanukkah as its theme in a way that feels complete and thoughtful".
"I've always defended my love of Hallmark movies — the Christmas trees, the meet-cutes, the small-town businesses struggling to avoid being taken over by people from the big city. But there's no denying that they are of a type, shall we say, and many times, their precise pleasure is that you wouldn't mistake them for anything else. Furthermore, even as Hallmark has expanded its vision with changes like introducing LGBTQ+ characters and stories now and then, their efforts to expand beyond Christmas into Hanukkah have sometimes felt a bit tentative.
Imagine my delight at finding Round and Round, a lovely new entry that's a solid light romantic comedy that you wouldn't be surprised to find somewhere else besides Hallmark, and that also embraces Hanukkah as its theme in a way that feels complete and thoughtful".
One last Hanukkah gift from Hallmark: 'Round and Round' is a really fun romcom
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PO1 William "Chip" Nagel good day Brother William, always informational and of the most interesting. Thanks for sharing, have a blessed day!
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Hopefully this one has something a little different than the usual...I could write the script for their movies...
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During the holidays, one of my 'traditions' with the wife is to gorge on the new holiday movies. I have trouble keeping up with who's showing what, so I usually just do a wishlist search for the DVR of "Christmas" and "2023" (this year .. obviously was 2022 last year) and that usually ends up with 50+ recordings primarily from Hallmark, Great American Family, Hallmark Movies and Mysteries, and a smattering from Lifetime and other places.
I saw the trailer for this one and the first thing that popped into mind was "Groundhog Day meets Hanukkah". Always liked the time-loop movies when they are done well and this sounds like it has promise.
Like Lt Col Charlie Brown said, the plots on the movies do become repetitive (doesn't stop my wife and I from just enjoying the mindless entertainment of them for a couple of hours though). You can count on "Kissus Interruptus" as a plot item, the female lead (almost always) doing a 'front tuck' (French tuck) if she's wearing a sweater, a 'major' conflict that happens around the 1.5 hour mark (of a 2-hour movie) and everything being resolved after the last commercial break.
I saw the trailer for this one and the first thing that popped into mind was "Groundhog Day meets Hanukkah". Always liked the time-loop movies when they are done well and this sounds like it has promise.
Like Lt Col Charlie Brown said, the plots on the movies do become repetitive (doesn't stop my wife and I from just enjoying the mindless entertainment of them for a couple of hours though). You can count on "Kissus Interruptus" as a plot item, the female lead (almost always) doing a 'front tuck' (French tuck) if she's wearing a sweater, a 'major' conflict that happens around the 1.5 hour mark (of a 2-hour movie) and everything being resolved after the last commercial break.
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