Sam Irvin

My Santa (2013)

My Santa (2013)

Director:

Sam Irvin

Starring:

Samaire Armstrong

Matthew Lawrence

Julie Brown

Plot:

Single mom Jen Robbins, who is a writer of human interest stories for the newspaper in the small town where she has lived all her life, lost the Christmas spirit ever since her ex-husband split.

Review:

So what do we have here, a Christmas movie where the male lead is super young looking. It’s actually kind of weird cause he looks young twenties and the female lead looks early thirties. However, I looked it up and he’s 33 and she is too. Life is really not fair, he should not look that young.

Love triangle, check.

Scrooge, mommy is not in on the Christmas spirit, check.

Jim O’Heir (Jerry from Parks and Rec), I feel like he should be added to the check list because he’s been in a couple so far, check.

Bad acting, check.

Super-fast romance, check.

It was alright, could have done with a bit more. The whole Santa’s kid thing was cool, but the main focus wasn’t that, it was the mom regaining the joy of Christmas, they did a good job with that though.

3/5

Naughty and Nice (2014)

Naughty and Nice (2014)

Director:

Sam Irvin

Starring:

Haylie Duff

Tilky Jones

Maureen McCormick

Plot:

A cynical radio host is banished to Colorado, where he has an on-air spat with a hopeless romantic. Soon, their antagonistic relationship sparks the interest of the whole town.

Review:

Now this is more like it. After the stinker yesterday I’m glad I was able to find one more in line with what I wanted. Meaning there was actually a story and talking and it wasn’t just music playing while they did stuff. This also proves that Haylie Duff was not the issue with the last movie.

Alright, so what did we have?

A “bad boy” that just needed a good woman to turn him around, check.

A recently deceased parent, check.

A love triangle, kind of check. There was another dude in the picture, but he was so clearly a fall back that even he knew it and didn’t seem that upset not to get the girl. I kind of want him to have a spin off movie because he was nice.

So Pepper, Tilky Jones, did this things twice where he would scoot close to Haylie Duff and I don’t know why but it was so sweet and romantic. He was close to her, but not touching her, I don’t know why I noticed it but it stood out. Maybe because I didn’t feel like their relationship, the first time he did it, was at that point, but I don’t know I thought it was kind of romantic. His complete focus was on her but he wasn’t forcing himself on her.

Anyway, cute movie, it washed the taste of the last one out of my brain.

4/5