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Nov. 2, 2025

Netflix holiday movie lineup 2025

Netflix holiday movie lineup 2025
Netflix holiday movie lineup 2025
5 Good News Stories
Netflix holiday movie lineup 2025

Five uplifting Christmas-themed stories. Highlights include a new overnight Christmas train from Rome to Munich, the 25th-anniversary concert film of Christina Aguilera's holiday album, the Suffolk Tractor Light Parade in the UK, a debate over naming the winter/Christmas break by the Sumner County School Board, and Netflix's holiday movie lineup for the season.

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0:03 Callaroga Shark Media Ho Ho home Johnnie Mack with five the Good News Christmas Stories. You were getting closer, now check your calendar. It's not that far away. Have you ever dreamed of waking up to a winter wonderland while gliding through the Alps. Well, this December you can get hooked up because Italy has announced a brand new overnight Christmas train from Rome to Munich. By the way, having been to Italy, they've got their train system together. I went from Rome to Florence and it was cheaper and quicker than if I went the thirty miles from where I lived to New York City. I mean, just impressive.

0:43 It is the Espresso Monaco, a limited edition train. It'll make two round trips, departing from Rome on December fifth or twelfth, returning from Munich December seventh or fourteenth. Travelers can expect twinkling decorations, festive music, a cozy bar and a restaurant car, and even a small holiday gift to start the trip off right. You leave Rome's Germany station at seven fifty seven pm. Been there, there's McDonald's across the street, by the way. You know, sometimes when you're in Europe. You want to you want either a big drink or a cold drink. McDonald's will sell you both. That's like, you know, I know people frown on McDonald's, but when I'm in Europe love McDonald's just for the large dye coke. Anyway, I digress. You'll travel overnight through Verona, Trento, Bolzano, Bressinone and Brenero before crossing the Austrian border and arriving in Munich around one pm the next day. Right so eight pm to one pm. It's a little long, but near sleep for a lot of it. Plus, as the train winds its way north, you can enjoy the changing scenery from Italy's rolling countryside to snow dusted alpine peaks.

1:45 In the morning, you'll be in Munich's famous Christmas markets. Christina Aguilera's holiday concert film, Christina Aguilera Christmas in Paris, we had a limited theatrical release in December. It celebrates the twenty fifth anniversary of her two thousand holiday album My Kind of Christmas. It'll premiere in the US on December fourteenth and twenty first. Christmas in Paris was recorded in Paris before an intimate audience of two hundred and fifty guests against the backdrop of the Eiffel Tower. We're excited for the Suffolk Tractor Light Parade. One hundred and fifty people have already signed up. Every year, people lining the streets and villages of Suffolk in the UK to see tractors decorated in an array of lights. The parade goes through Wickham Market, Woodbridge, Rentles sam and Tunstall. This year's parade supports the Suffolk Accident Rescue Service, the Rural Coffee Caravan and the Nest, with a fundraising goal of more than thirteen thousand pounds. Four thirty Sunday, December fourteenth, This one is interesting depending on which side you fall on it or not. But I'll remind you you're listening to five good news Christmas stories. The Sumner County School Board had to make a decision. What are we calling the thing where kids don't have any class in late December.

2:57 Is a Christmas break or winter break? There was a heated debate for three decades. It was known as winter break. Last year the board said we're switching it Christmas Break. One of the school board members said we voted on it with no public input, no chance to hear from our constituents. We did a bad job as a board because we didn't represent everyone by getting their feedback. One board member said, this needs to be called Christmas Break because that's what it is, and everyone knows that's what it is. It's the reason there's a break in the first place, because of Christmas, not some other holiday. Christmas was the reason everyone was disappearing. Where is everybody, Oh, they left for a week and a half to go to their family for Christmas. Others said, you know, that's not inclusive of other fates. One of the board members said, when we made this decision, we excluded kids. That's what I've taken away from the feedback I got. Some people said, why don't we just call it Christmas slash Winter Break. Well, they voted. It was unanimous, and on the calendar for twenty twenty six it will be called Christmas Break all right.

3:55 Netflix has announced their holiday movies. I mentioned to my wife the other day, Hey, here's the Hallmark thing, and she's like, eh, I don't know even. She was like, it's kind of the same thing every time, which I've been telling her for twenty years. You know, There's a woman, she owns a bakery. This divorced guy comes by. They kind of connect, but not really, and then stuff happens. And then the end there by the town Christmas Tree and it's snowing. You know, that's pretty much every movie. Now. Netflix has their own Christmas Universe, the NCU, not to be confused with that thing Marvel does. The NCU is an interconnected series of Hallmark movies that started in twenty seventeen with A Christmas Prince. Now, just last night they put up a very vintage Christmas from twenty nineteen that follows antique shop owner dood Y who finds an unusual box of sentimental trinkets in her shop and embarks on a journey to find the rightful owner, who, of course is a good looking dude. There's Dear Santa, a documentary about the massive effort that goes into Operation Santa, run by the Postal Service. There's Happy Christmas starring Anna Kendrick that follows Jenny as she moves into her brother's house following a breakup. While living there, she and her friend Carson convince her brother's wife that her life needs to change for the better. There's a Christmas. Kelly Roland plays Jackie, a hugely successful entrepreneur of a tech company with a messy family. What's more, she falls in love with her neighbor.

5:16 That's right, And of course Tyler Perry's a Medea Christmas. Those all popped up last night. Now looking ahead on the seventh, a holiday Engagement starring Shelley Long. A woman and hires an actor to posit her fiance for Thanksgiving, and guess what, they fall in love. There's also Christmas in the Heartlands starring Sierra McCormick and Bo Derek. That one from twenty seventeen follows two teenage girls from different worlds who meet on a plane and decide to swap places for Christmas. Then there's My Dad's Christmas Dates starring Jeremy Piven of all people. That follows a teenage girl who secretly sets up her widowed father, presumably Jeremy Piven, on online dates during Christmas. And then there's more starting in the eleventh But I think I'll save those for next week because those are your good news Christmas stories for today. Have a great day,