Since I literally saw two of the best movies I watched all year just yesterday expanded the list to 15. Still a lot of gaps in my viewing to be filled in. letterboxd.com/sleepykittyp...

With the season concluded, here's how IMDb and Letterboxd users rated Hallmark's 2025 Christmas movies, with both sets of viewers agreeing on top titles, ranking MERRY CHRISTMAS, TED COOPER! and GRAND OLE OPRY CHRISTMAS, No.1 and 2. SINGLE ON THE 25TH also appeared in both groups Top 5.

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Know I’m the first to say this but tiny little unknown indie K-POP DEMON HUNTERS is super fun and good. Like, seriously entertaining even if you’re old, uncool and very late to the party, like me.

Have avoided COMPANION because hate horror movies but it’s really good, and not really a horror movie, per se. Best to go in as unspoiled as possible but think it still has lots to say even if you know “the twist.” Jack Quaid is genuinely good and Sophie Thacker may also be a star in the making.

My favorite moment from the ABC News feed was when it was simultaneously midnight AND 44 seconds until midnight.

2025 has been an exasperating year for libraries and librarians, but there is plenty of hope for a better future. @comicslibrarian.bsky.social looks ahead, cautiously, optimistically.

Last night I learned that Hulu doesn't livestream NEW YEAR'S ROCKIN' EVE, likely due to contractual issues with Dick Clark productions—it's ABC only. Hulu did have an ABC News livestream from Times Square, but it is still quite odd, when you can stream a ROCKIN' EVE replay today on Hulu.

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"I think that’s one of the most brilliant business decisions they’ve made, and they’re expanding there because they have to. It allows a connection between the consumer and the brand on a direct level in a way a movie can’t provide.” www.chicagotribune.com/2025/12/31/h...

"Hallmark [is] making progress. Black and LGBTQ storylines do, in fact, exist, and female leads are no longer required to give up their careers to be happy. So, let’s set aside the 'city gal heads to small town' trope and focus on the spirit." ashcroftcachecreekjournal.com/2025/12/28/m...

If you haven’t seen it, the London fireworks and music show was amazing—and also very woke (complimentary). Well worth the 12-minute watch. youtu.be/yIlhR3JW5SI?...

A beautiful idea. This year, more than ever.

Still haven't seen the bulk (really, any) of the awards contenders, but these are the 10 new movies I saw and most enjoyed in 2025 Is my No. 1 silly and frivolous? No doubt. But it's also the movie I had the most fun with, and got the most feels from watching in 2025 letterboxd.com/sleepykittyp...

It’s one of my favorite days of the year! Here are my 50 Wonderful Things From 2025. Thanks as always to the editors who help wrangle this bear.

My sincere year-end thought isn’t an original one, but its importance has been underscored to me repeatedly over the last 12 months: be free with telling the people you love that you love them, casually, and at every chance. Great love, small love, every type of love.

We watched NIGHT THOUGHTS as a family over the holidays, and laughed a lot, as well as shed a tear for Bagel's loss, and then found the happy coda on Nanjiani's Instagram that they now have a new addition to the family, Biscuit. 😻 www.instagram.com/p/DQ5DjL_EtR...

Great American Family's multi-time renamed and confused CHRISTMAS NORTH OF NASHVILLE, is available to stream on multiple FAST streamers, including Tubi and Fawesome, as well as for digital purchase via Vudu and Amazon, under its original title CHRISTMAS PITCH

THE CHRISTMAS PRINCESS SWITCH, starring Theresa Shangazhike, James Anite, Tamaira Hesson and Peter L. Pinnock, is now available for digital sale/rental via Vudu.

Also new from the UK and streaming now on Fawesome, horror movie BLACK KRAMPUS. Starring Afia Abusham, Emmanuel Ale and James Anite.

UK-shot new movie HUSKY CHRISTMAS, starring Danielle Scott, Stephen Staley and Kitty Sudbery, directed by Sushank Kini, is now available to stream on Fawesome, as well as for digital sale/rental on Vudu.

PILLION now confirmed to open in US theaters on February 6.

#Christmas is just 360 days away! ❄️🎄

This is true and I was the only one on set excited about it (and playing the song on my phone to blank stares)

Just kidding. I already have my New Year’s Eve pajamas all picked out.

Can quibble with the order, but hard not to agree that these are all bad. Luckily, some of which I managed to avoid. FOUNTAIN OF YOUTH is my "worst of the year." Followed by HOLLAND (not a blockbuster, but still stunningly bad) and CAPTAIN AMERICA: BRAVE NEW WORLD.

The sommelier bird pours his heart out, but the other one only sees a mirror, reflecting a life that’s mostly empty glasses.

"10:30 A.M. Send another overdue notice to the impish man who checked out 'Tom Sawyer' months ago and listed last known address as 'Heaven.' Men like this are why I’m a single spinster."

When I started watching Christmas movies obsessively, it was humanly possible to catch up on all the old Christmas movies and eventually see every new one. I never came close to pulling that off, but it was theoretically possible. What a difference 16 years makes.

Poster for Channel 4 original movie FINDING FATHER CHRISTMAS (f.k.a. DEAR FATHER CHRISTMAS), Lenny Rush, James Buckley, Stephen Fry, Jason Fox and Greg Davies, which premiered on December 24 in the UK and will hopefully make its way stateside next year.

Long promised, Christmas-set horror, RETURN OF THE LIVING DEAD has once again been pushed. It's new release date is November 13, 2026. The Devon Sawa-led title was first teased in 2023, with an official announcement in 2024.

By my count we end the season with 155 new Christmas movies on broadcast, cable and streaming for 2025 101 network exclusives, and 54 new movies on multiple free-with-ads streamers. That's still a ton of new holiday movies, but it's down 9% from 2024, and 36% off 2022's peak tally of 243 new titles

Christmas may be over (😿) but there's another holiday just around the corner with a surprisingly robust swath of seasonally appropriate viewing available, in case you're looking for some New Year's-specific watches to augment your Christmas cheer. sleepykittypaws.tumblr.com/post/7382439...

Am begging some streaming service, any streaming service, to make AMANDALAND available in the U.S. Pretty, pretty please. www.yorkshirepost.co.uk/arts-and-cul...

Megan Lauzier wrote her doctoral thesis, for a masters in Film Studies, on Hallmark movies. No, really. It's called, "More Than Meets the Eye: Unpacking the Popularity of Hallmark Movies." PDF: spectrum.library.concordia.ca/id/eprint/99...

"Despite being born on a Christmas tree farm in Ohio, he wasn't really a fan of the holiday season. That could be (and probably is) the beginning of a Hallmark movie, but it’s the truth for Zac Hug, a television writer who has written 20 films for the Hallmark Channel." www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

"The financial incentive to filming in B.C. includes a tax credit and an exchange rate in the American company’s favour. 'But what keeps us there is the talent. It’s the talent, it’s the relationships, it’s the great locations.'" www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

"The impact these movies have on the economy is wide-reaching. When a production comes to town, the cast and crew spend money on catering, in local coffee shops, at…local boutiques— the list goes on." www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

DEAD OF WINTER sees Emma Thompson enter her Liam Neeson-era. This Minnesota-set, but Finland-shot, thriller is low on dialogue—good, because Thompson's accent shaky at best—is very snowy, but only lightly holiday (one flashback scene is set at Christmas). Nothing groundbreaking, but worth a watch.

Lots of prestige films and TV genuinely looking forward to catching up on…But instead I’ve seen FREAKIER FRIDAY and am three episodes into the new season of EMILY IN PARIS, where I’m thrilled they’ve found something for Lucien Laviscount to do, and that it involves tank tops.

Personally kind of hated it, but appears MY SECRET SANTA was most-watched of Netflix’s four new 🎄 rom-com debuts. Apparently I was the only one who did NOT want a holiday MRS DOUBTFIRE, but with more homoerotic sexual tension surrounding Santa, at a ski school with a competitive admissions process 🤷‍♀️

After watching essentially nothing but Christmas since early November, this is time of the year when I admit I'm probably not getting to anything else, including some new things I was genuinely excited about There's always next year. Only 363 days till Christmas 2026 letterboxd.com/sleepykittyp...

Scrooge: are you wearing the— Marley: —ponderous chain I forged in life, like one that you already wear? By treating mankind as your business? Yeah, I am.

Netflix brought together an eclectic group, including Snoop Dogg, Hunter/x and Lainey Wilson for their live, Christmas Day NFL halftime show, SNOOP'S HOLIDAY HALFTIME PARTY, which is now available to stream separately. Variety: variety.com/2025/tv/news...

We‘ve covered several holiday movies on @infrontofira.bsky.social so if you‘re not sure what to watch, give us a listen! We may be the last 2 people who have nice things to say about Love Actually and also did - The Holiday - Heidelberg Holiday - Round & Round - Hot Frosty - Serendipity (this Fri!)

Hallmark titles coming to Netflix in January include AN UNEXPECTED VALENTINE, Hallmark's most-watched movie of 2025, HATS OF TO LOVE and SISTERHOOD, INC.

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Christmas may be over (😿) but there's another holiday just around the corner with a surprisingly robust swath of seasonally appropriate viewing available, in case you're looking for some New Year's-specific watches to augment your Christmas cheer. sleepykittypaws.tumblr.com/post/7382439...

In case you missed it, it's not HEATED RIVALRY (also based on a Harlequin series), but Harlequin-produced, CW original movie, ORDINARY GIRL IN A TIARA, is a lesbian romance.