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A Timeless Christmas

Published December 22, 2025

A Timeless Christmas

Film info

  • Title A Timeless Christmas
  • Director Ron Oliver
  • Year 2020
  • Run time 1hr 24m
  • Genre Romance
  • Tagline The Christmas clock is ticking

Charles Whitley travels from 1903 to 2020 where he meets Megan Turner, a tour guide at his historic mansion, and experiences a 21st Century Christmas.

Live blog

Time Comment
1:03 “I wouldn’t work with you if you were the last engineer on the planet.” Sick burn.
6:16 Surely a Christmas moon is just the moon at Christmas.
12:25 You do have to wonder what the original owners would make of historic houses now.
17:57 He very quickly understood the workings of a microwave, when I’m not sure I even get how they work.
23:04 Six months isn’t really that long.
32:14 She keeps saying ’times have changed’ as if that helps him.
42:00 I mean, email is definitely better than letters in terms of timeliness, but sure, no one’s keeping them as souvenirs.
49:23 “It’s Christmas, tis the season to butt in.”
54:55 Would we say a Christmas Carol is a time travel book?
1:05:15 “Did you say ‘cad’? Not a word you hear every day.”
1:08:39 Everything is named Moran, how had he not noticed before?
1:11:04 There is no way the secretary was happy to give out precious artefacts.

Thoughts

Judge me all you want, but I really enjoyed this film. It’s got all those festive Hallmark tropes - it’s cheap, the script is clunky, and the chemistry is questionable. But I loved the time travel aspect of it, and how it all worked itself out, it was fun. You do have to question how quickly the guy seemed to accept everything in the modern world, I know he’s an engineer but a microwave must be mind-bending for someone where barely electricity exists. Cheap and cheerful, warm and cosy, I recommend this one.

Rating: 4 / 5

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