Ho, ho, ho! I’ve decided to get into the holiday spirit here by spending the next twelve days watching and reviewing some truly special looking movies that have shown up in the holiday section of Netflix (and if you can’t find them, fellow Canadians, it may be because I am accessing the US version of Netflix through unblock-us.com). So without further ado:
On the first day of Christmas, Netflix sent to me: Snow, a TV movie from ABC Family starring Tom Cavanagh (Ed, Love Monkey) and Ashley Williams (How I Met Your Mother, Margin Call). Cavanagh plays Nick, the heir to the Big Man himself, Santa Claus, training a new reindeer to fly. Instead the reindeer is captured and taken to the zoo where Sandy (Williams) works. Using his ability to travel between the north pole and anywhere else using mirrors, Nick tries to get closer to Sandy so that he can get access to the reindeer cage and free his friend. Meanwhile, an arrogant hunter called Buck has set his sights on both the reindeer and Sandy (insert your own stuffing and mounting joke here).
I enjoyed this a lot more than I thought I would. Cavanagh and Williams have good chemistry, the supporting cast is decent (most notably Canadian legend Jackie Burroughs and the foul-mouthed kid from Role Models). I could watch Ashley Williams in anything, to be honest:
*sigh* Anyway, since I’ve been good this year, it turns out that there is a sequel to Snow called Brain Freeze, and it is also on Netflix. God bless us, every one!
It’s one thing to use r/NetflixBestOf to pimp your blog but how dare you waste our time with this pile of garbage.
Hi, thanks for reading. I don’t ordinarily reply to abusive comments, but just so you know:
1) it was not my intention to spam reddit. Nor did I violate any rules of the subreddit as far as I can tell. Most of the time I post in the webcomics subreddit, where it is encouraged to post links to your own stuff. I see that doesn’t happen a lot in r/NetflixBestOf, but it’s not forbidden either. I posted the link there because I sincerely wanted to mention a movie I enjoyed watching, and the blog post explains why. Does it benefit me to have the reddit traffic here? Sure, in the sense that writers like to have someone read what they write. Otherwise, there’s certainly no financial or other benefit to me. This is a WordPress.com site, with no ads or anything. I post here as a way to keep track of the stuff I watch and read.
2) not sure if you meant the movie was a pile of garbage or the blog post, but either way your comment is not helpful in any way. You’re welcome to your opinion of course, but that doesn’t mean I am going to give it a forum here. If you don’t like what I post, use your downvote on reddit and move on. Since this post has gotten quite a lot of visitors today with only 1 complaint and a lot of upvotes in the subreddit, I’m guessing more people liked it than not, so I’m glad of that. You can’t please everyone; so be it.
Happy holidays.