Hallmark Movies
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3 Bed, 2 Bath, 1 Ghost (Hallmark) – A Review By Star and Duck
To be ducking honest, I was so super-ducking scared to watch a movie about a ghost that I got my flippers in a tangle, but once I’d settled in, my feathers were pleasantly tingled by this marvelously silly movie. See, in 3 Bed, 2 Bath, 1 Ghost, Anna, a realtor (played by Julie Gonzalo) must… Continue reading
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Away and Back (Hallmark 2015) Reviewed by Duck and Star
Friends, from the start, when yours truly sat down to watch Away & Back, I was in a state of open-beaked amazement. Because there, on the screen, was a beautiful story of people who DUCKING LOVE WATERFOWL. Bird representation was at such an ALL TIME HIGH that my duck-heart hammered with gusto throughout! Continue reading
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Love, Classified (Hallmark, 2022) Reviewed by Duck and Star
Friends, sometimes you watch a Hallmark movie and go, “Quacker-doodle doo! Hallmark was doing something super-ducking awesome here!” And that’s how it was with Love, Classified. I was so delighted that my quacks had that bubbly quality you get from a fine champagne. Continue reading
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A Self-Love Mallard-Festo: Sir Mallard Jones’s Self-Love Secrets Plus Fave Movies & Reads
Ah! Well, for MEEE, your everyday aristocratic plush duck, I’d say self-love is a way of life. (Not a whey of life, because my system is anti-milk, you know.) Every morning, I rise like Hercules and head straight for the bathroom. I then stand upon the sink and, raising myself daintily upon my flipper-tips, look… Continue reading
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Romance in Style (Hallmark, 2022) Reviewed by Duck and Star
Friends, we’ve been watching a duck of a lot of Hallmark movies recently, and you could argue that a few of them were activist! We love activist romance because our flippers are tickled by stories that build a better world. And Romance in Style does that in spades. Continue reading
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Sense and Sensibility (2024, Hallmark Mahogany) Reviewed by Star and Duck
Friends, ever since I read that a diverse Hallmark adaptation of Jane Austen’s Sense and Sensibility was coming out this year, I’ve been super-ducking excited. And the movie did not disappoint my flippers. It’s honestly one of the best Jane Austen adaptations I’ve seen. (Generally speaking, ducks LOVE Austen.) In fact, the film’s diversity tickled… Continue reading
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A Christmas Duet (Hallmark) Reviewed by Duck and Star #MoviesThatNeedTylerHynes
Friends, you’d think with a winter festival to organize, a lodge to run, and a Top Winter Lodge Award to compete for, Averie (Chaley Rose) wouldn’t have the time to rekindle her old love with musician Jesse (Rome Flynn), but you’d be wrong. The problem is, your truly, a duck of true romance, was not… Continue reading
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A Taste Of Love (Hallmark) Reviewed by Duck and Star
Friends, if I was presenting a cooking show that clashed with my integrity, having to smile harder on camera would give yours truly a pain in the beak. No wonder protagonist Taylor, the cooking show’s presenter, is unsure of whether to renew her contract. Ducking lost, off she goes to her hometown to visit her… Continue reading
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About US
Welcome! I’m Star Tavares. I am queer and nonbinary, and my hubby Jake is trans. Our plush duck is called Duck and is super-ducking awesome too. He likes to call himself an award-winning duck because Jake and I wrote a screenplay about him that won some awards, and who are we to argue?
The thing is, we used to publish in the romance genres, but after we came out about our genders, we thought romance didn’t want us anymore. But you know what, toots? We were wrong.
Now we’ve rebuilt our confidence and are back to living our Romancey Pants life, writing, reviewing romance movies, reading romance novels, and doing a whole lot of stretching. (Did I mention we’re getting older?)
Want to know more about Star’s writing credits? Under another name, Star has published romance novels and novellas with presses like Harper Collins and Cleis, and has won awards for their shorter works from places like Glimmer Train, Screencraft, and Narrative, where they also worked as an editor. More recently, Star’s nonfiction about gender identity has appeared in The New York Times and at Huffington Post Personal.
Since Jake, who is also a romance author, is starting to add more reviews here (along with Duck’s best frenemy Sir Mallard Jones) watch this space for more about him and his career.
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