Draggletail

"Fleeing the family business and an arranged marriage, Santa’s daughter chooses a magical adventure of her own: College.” Cassandra Claus is Santa’s only daughter.   She’s a teenager.   She is slated to take over the family business this year.   And she is scheduled to marry Jack Frost, Jr., around the same time, so that the Kringles and Frosts can merge the family businesses.   This is an arranged marriage and the two teenagers have never met.   Cassie is not super into it, but she understands she has family responsibilities. Cassie is dragged out of bed by her assigned elf slave, Pep.   She eats candy for breakfast and whines.   I would probably whine, too, if an elf yelled me out of bed in the morning.  This is around August. Pep has delivered Cassie some mail with her breakfast tray.   What’s this?   Cassie got into college in The Real World!   She is so excited because she really wants a chance to meet regular people and make friends.   She isn’t sure how

We're only on movie #2, and I’m already a day behind.  Sorry!  I have a cold and it’s holding me up.  I’ve been watching the movies; just not writing about them.  I’ll catch up.   

“Home for the holidays, a broke puppeteer knows there’s a treasure buried somewhere under her town.  To find it all she has to do is die – almost.” You had me at "broke puppeteer." We open with a bunch of people in a warehouse kind of place, making a soda commercial.  There are three people dressed in full-body blue leotards, with gloves, working a few small puppets on a little set.  They look weird, but we get no explanation for these get-ups.  Since their arms reach into the set to manipulate the puppets, I imagine it's some kind of suit that becomes invisible on film?  Like a green screen situation...?  Actually, I don't even know what a green screen does.  But let's not spend too much time on this.  We need to talk about the puppets.   They're old-timey wooden puppets and they are terrifying.   The gist of the commercial is that Santa needs his "Wizz" (I don't want to drink a drink called Wizz) to get energy to perform h

Dear Carrie, Let's get this movie marathon party started! You know the rules:  I will watch and review/recap/discuss 12 Christmas movies in 12 days.  I realize the actual , original rules we previously discussed required me to watch 12 Hallmark Channel Christmas movies in 12 days?  But I don't know if that's really going to work for me.  For example, I tried to start watching a recorded movie last night, but due to circumstances beyond my control (the Patriots were on TV) the TV was unavailable to me and I had to watch something on my iPad, which pretty much leaves me with Netflix.  Also, the Hallmark Christmas movies that look "good" don't come on until closer to Christmas, and I think I should get this ball rolling now.  So here's what I propose: 1.  12 movies in 12 days 2.  I will stick to recent TV movies, i.e. no Christmas Vacation or Elf .  Only recent, made-for-TV movies, and I will aim for a high cheese factor.  I'll try to mak