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Netflix’s first gay holiday rom-com
When the holiday season rolls around, I find myself pulled towards the lure of Hallmark-esque Christmas movies. They’re simply irresistible with charming small towns, cheesy romances, and holiday cheer.
Netflix has a wide range of original holiday movies out, and heaps of them are released every November. While I haven’t seen all of them, there certainly are a couple of gems.
Of course, it’s a fair critique to say that these types of movies are very formulaic and cliche. With unrealistic plotlines and predictable twists, the movies are by no means masterpieces. The once brooding love interest will always find the true interpretation of Christmas, and any threats to the holiday will be miraculously resolved. However, despite the cheesiness, there is something so lighthearted and fun about these movies that is hard to ignore.
With Christmas approaching, I set out to watch a recent movie.
Number 8 on Netflix’s top ten charts was “Single All The Way,” released December 2nd, The movie centers on two gay best friends trying to navigate the holidays back home and, you guessed it, their feelings for one another.
Peter is tired of spending every Christmas
‘The Holiday Sitter’: Hallmark&#;s First Christmas Movie Featuring Gay Couple Is For &#;Other People In The Planet Who Want To Be Acknowledged&#;
Starring in a Hallmark Christmas movie today isn&#;t much different than appearing in Mean Girls 18 years ago, says star Jonathan Bennett: just like he did with Lindsay Lohan in , he &#;meet cutes&#; an attractive single in a rom-com type setting in The Holiday Sitter.
This time, however, Bennett is making a minuscule history: the movie debuting Dec. 11 at 8. p.m. marks the first time a Hallmark holiday flick revolves around a same-sex couple. In this case, Bennett plays a confirmed bachelor named Sam who agrees to monitor his teen nephew and young niece while their parents are away. He ends up falling for Jason (George Krissa), an easy-on-the-eyes neighbor who&#;s far more adept at compassionate for kids.
&#;We&#;re doing all the classic things that we like in Hallmark movies,&#; Bennett tells Deadline. &#;We&#;re doing the tropes that we&#;ve come to love and expect from watching Hallmark movies. We&#;re just turning up the comedy and having two men as the leads instead of the classic straight couple. The audience is going to
Real-life married gay couple cast in 1st Lifetime LGBTQ holiday movie
Lifetime has revealed the cast of its first LGBTQ-centric Christmas feature, "The Christmas Setup."
The network announced this week it has tapped actors Ben Lewis and Blake Lee, a real-life married couple, to star in its historymaking holiday film.
Lewis -- known for roles in "Scott Pilgrim vs. the World," "Degrassi: The Next Generation" and "Arrow" -- and Lee -- acknowledged for roles on "Parks and Recreation," "Mixology" and "Wisdom of the Crowd" -- wed in
Co-starring alongside Lewis and Lee are "The Nanny" star Fran Drescher and actress Ellen Wong ("The Carrie Diaries" and "GLOW").
The show will follow Hugo (Lewis), a New York lawyer, who returns home to Milwaukee for the holidays with his best partner, Madelyn (Wong). While there, his mother, Kate (Drescher), plays matchmaker between him and his secret upper school crush, Patrick (Lee), who recently made it big in Silicon Valley. While their relationship sparks, Hugo receives a huge promotion which would demand him to move to London forcing him to decid
The Best Queer Holiday Movies to Make the Yuletide Gay
Photo-Illustration: Vulture; Photos Courtesy of Hulu, Netflix, The Weinstein Company via TUBI, and Hallmark Channel
This list was originally published on December 9, It has been updated to comprise the latest movies in the growing queer Christmas-movie canon.
Not too prolonged ago, LGBTQ+ people who wanted to see themselves represented in holiday movies could either (a) fictional or (b) settle for a second-rate film with a queer character who had very few lines, ambition, or development.
Early in the contemporary queer holiday canon, ’s The Family Stone, which stars same-sex attracted icon Sarah Jessica Parker as a (shocker) snobby New Yorker spending the holidays at her boyfriend’s family home, became a queer hit for its B-plot gay couple with ambitions to adopt a baby. And while the film is still worth an annual watch, so much more has happened in seasonal cinema since SJP’s iconic spilled-strata scene with matriarch Diane Keaton. That is, gay and lesbian Christmas movies actually center queer people now — same-sex holiday revelers crush and fall in love, break up, regain romance, and just inhabit the same celebratory December existence
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