Tidings for the Season
Published 2025-12-19
This holiday's top story
Film info
- Director
- Year / Run time 2025 · 1hr 24m
- Genres Romance, Drama
A local newscaster’s life changes when he meets a 10-year-old fan — and his single mother — during the holidays.
Live blog
| Time | Comment |
|---|---|
| 1:00 | Kid in a suit interviewing a snowman is pretty cute. |
| 4:03 | Who has a favourite reindeer? I would need to spend more time with them! |
| 6:03 | This guy is much better in normal conversation than he is reading the news. |
| 8:21 | She says she’s too busy but also won’t accept help. |
| 16:17 | You don’t want a kid with access to your talkback button. |
| 21:39 | That is a massive candy cane. |
| 28:27 | It’s a nice suit, and definitely more colourful. |
| 39:09 | Creative differences, for sure. Wish I got told to take time off. |
| 54:42 | Love when the friends intervene. “She’s free tonight.” |
| 59:22 | I agree the news could do with more positivity… but they surely do still have to tell the news? |
| 1:06:22 | “That was the year I made matching sweaters for the whole family.” Ooh, idea! |
| 1:12:16 | Makes a change for the man to have to make a choice between love and career. |
Thoughts
This was a weird movie. The anti-news rhetoric was not subtle and really got quite old, the guy's just doing his job for goodness' sake. The two leads were fine but it didn't seem like they had a spark to end up together particularly. The kid was great, but some of the things he was allowed to get up to didn't seem that appropriate. I don't know, it was watchable, and it steered clear of some of the generic Hallmark movie tropes but it wasn't great.
Rating: 2 / 5
