My rating: ????

Hello, and yes, I’m going for 1 film a day throughout December, and I’m not regretting my life choices (she says, on day 2!).

Happily, I’m starting doing this with a backlog of films to tell you about, as I’ve been recording and watching them in November, and my DVR box is looking pretty full, which can only mean there’s more Christmas films to tell you about!

Enough about the behind the scenes of this, and more about this film!

A Gingerbread Romance was a great film as far as Christmas films go!

Taylor is an architect who believes her way is the best way.  She’s very used to moving around as she’s done it her whole life, and she’s up for a promotion which will mean another city.  But, for Christmas, she’s at home, and her architecture firm wants her to take part in a life size gingerbread house competition, and to work with a baker to do this.

Adam is a talented baker in a very repetitive role at a bakery.  He dreams of one day having his own bakery.  He gets dragged into helping Taylor with the gingerbread house competition, and he and his young daughter helps Taylor to remember what Christmas is about.

This did make me feel like it was Christmas, and whilst I winced at the piping, I did enjoy the story!

My review: ???

Channel 5 in the UK has been showing at least 1 Christmas film a day since the beginning of November.  I’ve recorded a lot of them, and thought we could have some fun with Christmas film of the day throughout December!

We’re going to go in the order that I’ve watched them, and yes, I’ve got a little list that I’ve been keeping track of it all on!

I’ve decided to have my rating in bells, because I think Christmas films have their own standards, and it’s Christmas-y!

Starting us off is My Christmas Prince.  Very similar name to the Netflix film series (A Christmas Prince, from 2017), I know, but welcome to Christmas films!  You’re going to notice some similarities as we go along!

Samantha and her boyfriend Alex are happy in New York, but it’s Christmas, so she wants to go home, and he decides to follow her.  Alex hasn’t told her exactly who he is – not just an ambassador, but the Crown Prince of a small European country.

She shows him her small town Christmas, and he unwittingly shows her what it would be like to be royal, along with the paparazzi and invasion of privacy.

This is a made for TV movie from 2017, and it was OK.  It didn’t make me feel very Christmas-y, but it involved a lot of Christmas activities.

Not one I would bother watching again, but it was fine as background.

Title wise, as it’s so similar to the Netflix films, I’m not going to hold this against either as we know films of the same type of name, about the same things are common, for example; Antz and A Bug’s Life, The Illusionist and The Prestige and Churchill and The Darkest Hour.

I hope you enjoyed