The made-for-home-viewing holiday movie is like those cookies your aunt makes every year, the ones with the festive shapes and the sprinkles, and she’s going to want that plate back when you’re done: They’re not necessarily the GREATEST cookies, but there’s something warm and comforting and sweet about them. You shouldn’t feel guilty for snuggling into the sofa and enjoying them.
Once again this season, we’ll be getting dozens of new holiday movies, with titles such as “Joyeux Noel” and “Flipping For Christmas” and “Checkin’ It Twice” and “Six Degrees of Santa” and I’m particularly looking forward to “Single and Ready to Jingle.” One of the first is the Hulu original movie “Reporting for Christmas,” which serves as an advertisement of sorts for lovely Historic Downtown Long Grove, repurposed here as the fictional town of Brunswick, Iowa. As for the movie’s premise, I can’t do better than the publicity materials:
