A Castle for Christmas
Brooke Shields has been around for decades and my first recollection is probably The Blue Lagoon. Then her cameo in Friends when that show was really on fire. And now we have her in a romantic comedy that’s become a Netflix tradition. Last year there was Operation Christmas Drop about a couple bonding over love, and doing good deeds, and Christmas. A Castle for Christmas is more like a fairy-tale but you are seriously going to have to bear with me on this. This is about an American romantic novelist (Sheilds) who has angered millions of her fans and escapes America as she is basically cancelled. She lands up in Scotland and that’s where the trouble starts. Not narratively, but because the first Scottish accent you hear is subtitled. Sophie goes to a castle and one of the people she meets there offers to give her a tour, and she sneaks to the off-the-tour part of the castle… Now the man she meets seems like the keeper or something, but he is Myles—and it turns out that it’s his ca...