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Deck the Netflix IS HERE...with a Roku movie, obviously!
ABOUT THE HOLIDAY SPARK
Firefighter Dean enlists illustrator Laura to help plan a holiday party for his firehouse. As they plan the epic party, both begin to question their views on romance and the possibility of love at first spark.
AIR DATE & NETWORK FOR THE HOLIDAY SPARK
November 2, 2026 | Roku
CAST & CREW OF THE HOLIDAY SPARK
Director: Rhonda Baraka
Writer: Mary Kate Hegarty
Cast:
Joey Graziadei as Dean
Jamie Chung as Laura
BRAN’S MOVIE SYNOPSIS
We meet Dean - a firefighter who smiles after walking out of a burning building. Unfortunately for him, he draws the short candy cane and has to plan the firehouse Christmas party.
We then meet Laura - an illustrator who is booked and blessed. When she gets home, she sees a firetruck outside of her parents’ house. Nothing to worry about but when Dean and Laura meet each other, the fire in the fireplace literally turns on. Subtle, Roku. Subtle. When she finds out that he doesn’t do holiday events cuz he works a lot, she encourages him to meet her later at the first event - Cocoa Madness. He agrees much to the shock of the other firefighters. After hanging out, he asks if she’d be willing to illustrate the invite for the Christmas party. Obviously, she says yes. She goes to bring them right as they’re in the middle of their tire lifting workout, so he’s not wearing his shirt. Classic. She decides she’s gonna help with the party planning cuz he’s got no vision and they go to chop down trees together. He teaches her how to chop and then she jumps into his arms. OK YOU TWO!
They start hanging out CONSTANTLY and almost kiss while decorating a tree. The problem is he’s sworn off dating - he just needs to focus on his job. And he’s distracting her from doing her own work.
But he’s sending mixed messages when he shows up to decorate cookies at her parents’ house. WHAT DO YOU WANT, DEAN?!
Well, what he really wants is to win the chop-a-thon but they don’t have enough people on their team to compete. So why not Laura?! She knows how to chop now. They win and his boss comes up and tells him he got the gig - the promotion.
Feeling real good about himself, he tells her he can’t stop thinking about her as more than a friend and asks her out to dinner.
But before dinner, he goes in and finds out that the gig he got isn’t a promotion, rather he gets to play firehouse Santa.
They go out to dinner and it’s going well until he hears the 3rd siren - he says he has to go.
After they put out the fire, the other firefighters are like dude you’re an idiot. If we needed your help, we would’ve called you.
He goes to tell his boss that he needs to take Christmas off because there’s a girl he really likes. His boss is like that’s what I needed to hear. You get the job because you now know what it looks like to take care of yourself.
He goes to make things right with Laura but she has her notifications off. She doesn’t wanna hear from you, BRO!
She ends up coming to the party and they go back to her place and KISSSSSS.

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The final Hallmark Christmas movie of last weekend is here! Let get Danish!
ABOUT A DANISH CHRISTMAS
Hotel tech executive Marie heads home to Copenhagen for Christmas to help save her family’s inn. When she mistakes a guest for a travel writer, she plans him the perfect holiday tour, and romance follows.
AIR DATE & NETWORK FOR A DANISH CHRISTMAS
November 1, 2026 | Hallmark
CAST & CREW OF A DANISH CHRISTMAS
Director: Colin Theys
Writer: Juliana Wimbles
Cast:
Emilie Ullerup as Marie
Corey Sevier as Ryan Miller
BRAN’S MOVIE SYNOPSIS
We meet Marie, who is a hotshot deal maker at a hotel in Chicago. She’s rolling out new tech, really doing stuff. She decides she’s going home to Copenhagen for Christmas to spend the holiday with her family! She shows up and knows exactly what to do, hop on a bike, and get going. But then we meet fellow American Ryan who also shows up in Copenhagen, confused as can be.
Naturally, her family runs an inn, so she gets right to work on her vacation. She goes for a walk and bumps into Ryan Miller, who is lost as can be. She kinda helps and off she goes. Of course, he shows up at the inn to check in.
Marie googles him and finds out that he’s a travel writer, except he’s not, he just happens to share his name. But she doesn’t know that. So she decides she needs to make his stay perfect, complete with their famous Christmas tour...that they haven’t actually offered since her father passed away. When Marie tells her mom her plan, her mom is like don’t bother - I’m selling the inn in the new year. OVER MARIE’S DEAD BODY! She says let me do this and show you that the inn can still be successful!
So they start doing all the tour stuff, which is a bit of a learning curve for both, but obviously they start digging each other. But then things get CRAZY!
Another Ryan Miller shows up to check in. He’s the real Ryan Miller. Turns out our Ryan Miller was supposed to go to Hotel Anderson, not Anderson Inn. He goes to leave in a massive snowstorm and Marie goes after him to ask him to come back. Naturally he does and commits to continuing the Christmas tour along with the other Ryan Miller.
The other Ryan Miller doesn’t seem to be a big fan of much of the tour and our Ryan Miller tries his best to help but it’s not great.
She and our Ryan Miller decorate a tree and almost kiss but are interrupted by the other Ryan Miller who was going to leave but decided to stick around to finish his piece on the magic of a Danish Christmas. He then talks to Ryan and is like which of you is moving? Long distance is hard. Good luck out there.
Naturally, our Ryan wakes up the next day and leaves. He says she needs room to shine bright and off he goes.
She decides she’s going to stay in Denmark and asks if she can take over the inn. She doesn’t want her mom to sell it. Her mom is like well that’s nice but you need to go and tell Ryan how you feel before he leaves! So off she goes to stop him but he’s already on his way back! He tells her he’s staying forever I guess and they kiss!!! They head back to the inn to celebrate Christmas with her family.

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This Christmas movie came out on Halloween! Is it spooky? Let's find out!
ABOUT ADOPTING ST. NICK
As Christmas nears, single mom Maren, her adopted daughter Leah, and a Santa look-alike named Kris learn that family isn’t always about blood, and that the best holiday gift is finding where you belong.
AIR DATE & NETWORK FOR ADOPTING ST. NICK
October 31, 2026 | Hallmark
CAST & CREW OF ADOPTING ST. NICK
Director: Jeff Beesley
Writer: Susan Brightbill
Cast:
Amy Groening as Maren
Michael Rady as Reid
BRAN’S MOVIE SYNOPSIS
Maren runs a hardware store where she also repairs sleds. Her daughter, Leah, runs in just as she’s talking to a Santa-lookin’ fellow who gives her a flyer for an “adopt-a-grandparent” program. If I didn’t know any better, I think he might be the real thing. And I think Leah thinks so too, so she asks her mom if they can do the grandpa thing.
The program is at this retirement community, Jolly Acres, which of course is run by hunk Reid. Chris comes up and Leah adopts him and then he snaps his fingers and the lights turn on on the tree. Leah is convinced he’s Santa and is going to do an investigation of her own.
So Jolly Acres is in the process of renovating a big room, with the goal of having it ready by Christmas Eve (OBVIOUSLY). But the contractor’s twins came 2 weeks early. He’s out. Maren takes a look at the project and says she can handle it. Obviously, Reid is thrilled because that means he gets to hang out with Maren more. She finds out that he doesn’t have a Christmas tree, so naturally they need to fix that. As they hang out, she finds out that he’s never stayed anywhere very long. Even with his current job, he goes and opens a center and then leaves once it’s good and heads to another. They end up holding hands but then she’s like uh oh....gotta go! But after the ugly Christmas sweater fashion show, they just can’t help themselves and they almost kiss...but Leah interrupts them. BOOOO!!!!
Bad news - he’s got his next assignment. Beautiful Honolulu. He tells her and shares he’s disappointed he couldn’t stay here longer because he felt like there was something worth staying for, and they hug.
Maren begins to be concerned with how much Leah thinks Chris is Santa, so she talks to him and then he tells her that he turns on the lights with a remote and he’s not Santa but believes in all the things Santa stands for and they hug.
Maren finishes the renovation gig. You can tell that Reid is really struggling with not wanting to leave, so later that night, he asks if she wants to go stargazing. She tells him it’s probably best if she just heads home.
Overnight, a pipe in the ceiling of the new room bursts. The room is ruined. The party isn’t going to happen.
But then Reid calls her. The party is on...in an entirely different room but it still looks great. When he sees the community he has here, he decides he’s going to stay.
He tells Maren that he’s staying and they KISSSSSSS!
They go back to her house for Christmas and Leah opens a gift from Santa, signed Grandpa Christmas. So I guess Chris really is Santa?

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It’s Tuesday which means there’s a new Hallmark movie to review!
ABOUT WHO’S COMING FOR CHRISTMAS?
Inspired by her late grandmother, Julie plans Christmas Eve dinner in her new home, without a guest list, and has faith that the eight seats around her table will be filled by friends and neighbors.
AIR DATE & NETWORK FOR WHO’S COMING FOR CHRISTMAS?
October 30, 2026 | Hallmark
CAST & CREW OF WHO’S COMING FOR CHRISTMAS?
Director: David I. Strasser
Writer: Juliana Wimbles
Cast:
Rhiannon Fish as Julie Wilson
Jake Foy as Mark Evans
BRAN’S MOVIE SYNOPSIS
Julie just moved into her new house and is PUMPED when her table gets delivered. It belonged to her grandma and it means a lot to her. Some other items that belonged to her grandma arrive too, including a box that she doesn’t have the key to open.
She’s a librarian and she always gets into incredibly personal conversations with people. She checks out a guy named Mark (if you know what I mean....the books. She checked out his books, YOU FREAKS!). He also has a daughter named Vanessa who is a BOOKWORM! When she gets home after work, she’s shocked to find out that Mark is her neighbor! She asks him over to help fix a light and she shows off her grandma’s table. She explains her dream of filling the table for Christmas. He shares his dream of giving his daughter a perfect Christmas. So they agree to help each other - he’ll help fill the table with people and she’ll help give her a perfect Christmas.
She’s out here inviting everyone to Christmas Eve dinner but people be busy, people be bailing, people suck.
She spends a ton of time with Mark. Everything from shopping together, delivering presents together, winning a turkey together. She works with his daughter on her writing. Mark and Julie go for a picnic date and end up kissingggg! It’s all very sweet. BUT WHAT ABOUT THE TABLE?! WHO IS GOING TO FILL UP THE TABLE?!
Well, she has Mark and Julie and Mark’s entire family, so it’ll be fine, right? WRONG! His family gets snowed in and isn’t going to make it. But wouldn’t you know it, everyone she invited ultimately ends up coming. It’s a perfect Christmas.
She goes over to Mark’s house for Christmas breakfast and they kiss.

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Alonso & Jacks are here to help us preview the Netflix (and Roku & Prime) movies that we will be covering this year!


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