Our Little Secret is the third movie from Lindsay Lohan’s partnership with Netflix. Her Christmas movies have been doing a little bit better than her non-Christmas movies so I guess we have some hope here.

Avery (Lohan) and Logan (Ian Harding) have known each other forever. They were childhood friends who eventually became a couple. But when Avery took a job in England, Logan freaked out a little bit and proposed to her at her surprise going away party. Avery declined and broke up with him. Ten years later, Avery is going to spend Christmas at her boyfriend, Cameron’s (Jon Rudnitsky), family home. Little does she know that Logan is dating Cam’s sister, Cassie (Katie Baker), and will also be spending Christmas at their family home. Avery and Logan decide not to tell anyone that they know each other. How long can that be kept secret though?

On the plus side, Our Little Secret is a pretty decent movie. The plot is kinda terrible but, otherwise, I found the movie fairly enjoyable. Kristin Chenoweth is awesome as the evil Erica, mother to Cam, Cassie, and Callum. Lohan and Harding have this nice chemistry where you can see that they don’t really hate each other but they don’t want to like each other either. That can be difficult to pull off.

However, on the negative side, I don’t understand why they felt the need to keep their previous relationship secret. Even if they didn’t want to say that they dated, they could have said they were childhood friends. I can’t believe that anyone in that family would have been upset to find out that people they are dating know each other. The whole plot of the movie should have been about them trying to get Erica to accept them. Sure, part of the plot was trying to get Erica to accept Avery but there’s no reason that couldn’t have been the main plot. There are plenty of movies about trying to impress the in-laws and comedically failing. Here, the big secret feels unnecessary.

Thankfully, the terrible plot doesn’t keep the movie from being watchable. There is still enough to enjoy that you can kinda overlook the big secret. Oh, and the dog should have totally been named Cookie.

Rating: Celebrate good time. Come on!

It’s around this time of year that I get burned out on the Hallmark/Lifetime type movies. They all seem the same and they all bore me to death. So I try to filter in some movies from other streaming networks, like Hulu, to break up the monotony and keep me going. I chose the extremely weird It’s A Wonderful Binge.

In the year 2027, all drugs and alcohol have been outlawed in the United States. But once a year, the population can binge all the want with no repercussions. This year, it’s happening on Christmas.

OK. Stoner comedy is a love it or hate it thing. Thankfully, while this is stoner comedy at it’s core, they layered a few things on top of it to try to open it up to people that aren’t into it.

There’s a guy, Andrew (Eduardo Franco), who has an It’s A Wonderful Life adventure with Angel (Danny Trejo). Then there’s Hags (Dexter Darden) who wants to propose to his girlfriend, Sarah (Zainne Saleh), but the ring he was going to use (given to him by Sarah’s grandmother) was accidentally donated to an orphanage and now he has to try to get it back. In attempt to attract tourism to their town, Mayor Spengler (Kaitlin Olson) got a Christmas Owl then promptly lost it so she sends her daughter, Kimmi (Marta Piekarz), to retrieve it. And all the while, the entire town is high as a kite.

All of this definitely gave Binge a little more oomph than a regular stoner comedy. I found myself laughing more than once. Sure, it was a dumb comedy but sometimes you need to sit back and laugh at an owl flying around town attacking anything it finds. So, if you are looking for something light-hearted that doesn’t require a lot of brain power to watch, this is perfect. And you just mind find yourself getting closer to your family somehow.