Holiday Touchdown Scores! Mostly.
As does "A Real Pain."
I promise this newsletter has not become solely recaps of holiday movies. This was supposed to be part of Tuesday’s issue, in which I vented my spleen about Christmas in the Spotlight, a reimagining of the romance between Taylor Swift and Travis Kelce — basically another in Lifetime’s quick-to-market love stories that go as deep as… not even a puddle, but that droplet of water that sometimes spills out of your icemaker. But self-editing is not my strong suit, so both ran long, and I decided to split them up. Today, I’m giving you the rundown on the second Kelce-related movie of the season, Holiday Touchdown: A Chiefs Love Story, courtesy of Hallmark. It is less clumsy, much less Swifty, and rather more festive. In Taylor parlance, baby, I say yes.
Log Line: The official synopsis of this movie on Hallmark’s website is 101 words, which is way too many for any Hallmark movie, especially one that’s essentially built around being able to use Donna Kelce and the Kansas City Chiefs logo. So …