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Harrison Ford returns in INDIANA JONES AND THE DIAL OF DESTINY. In 1944, Indiana Jones and his friend, Basil Shaw, fight a National Socialist engineer named Voller for half of an ancient device invented by Greek mathematician Archimedes. Basil and Voller believe the device, when completed, can open a fissure in time to change the past. Twenty-five years later, after helping America’s moon program, Voller wants to find the device’s other half so he can change the outcome of World War II. Only Indiana Jones and Basil’s daughter, Indy’s goddaughter, stand in his way.
TRANSFORMERS: RISE OF THE BEASTS opens with a band of robots shaped like animals leaving their home planet and escaping to Earth to evade Unicron, a huge planet-eating robot. Called Maximals, the animal robots have a Transwarp Key that allows them to travel across space and time preserving life. Thousands of years later, in 1994, a young former military electronics expert named Noah and a young female archeologist named Elena team up with the Autobots and their leader, Optimus Prime. They help the Maximals protect the Transwarp Key and Earth from Unicron and his evil robots.
THE FLASH begins with a superb action scene where Barry Allen, aka The Flash, saves some people, including some babies from a maternity ward, from a sinkhole and a falling hospital building. Barry discovers he can go back in time by running faster than the speed of light. So, he goes back to make sure his mother wasn’t murdered and his father wasn’t falsely accused. By changing the past, Barry has created a new timeline where Superman isn’t there to save Earth from General Zod and his soldiers. Barry gets some help in trying to put things right.
ELEMENTAL is an animated fantasy from Pixar and Disney. The story takes place in Element City where water, fire, land, and air people live together, but not always peacefully. Ember, an adult female fire creature, is set to take over her father’s business when he retires. However, he keeps postponing his retirement because she can’t control her temper. One day, her temper causes a young water person and city inspector to report her to his boss. She convinces him, however, to help her keep the store open. This leads to unexpected consequences, not the least of which is that Wade and Ember are falling in love.
SOUND OF FREEDOM follows the inspiring true story of Tim Ballard, a former government agent who puts his life on the line to rescue hundreds of children from sex trafficking. After an operation that saves a young boy from trafficking, Tim learns the boy’s sister has also been sold into the sex trade. At first, he continues to operate under Homeland Security, but when funds run out, he takes matters into his own hands. With the help of a small team, Tim launches an investigation to save the boy’s sister, save many other children and bring the perpetrators to justice.
YOU HURT MY FEELINGS offers a gentle look at the white lies people tell their loved ones to avoid hurting their feelings. Beth and Don have been married about 30 years. Their adult son is in his mid-twenties and is going through a crisis of what to do with his life while working in a marijuana dispensary. Beth, a writing teacher, overhears Don telling someone her first novel about to be published isn’t very good. Meanwhile, Don begins to have doubts about his gentle approach as a therapist.
THE BOOGEYMAN is a horror movie loosely based on Stephen King’s short story about a man haunted by a monster with supernatural powers. This time, however, it’s a psychotherapist’s own two daughters being haunted by the creature, not the man who’s had three children killed by it. Will Harper doesn’t believe his younger daughter, Sawyer’s, stories about a monster hiding in her closet. However, as the monster’s attacks increase, Will’s teenage daughter, Sadie, starts to investigate the creature’s previous attacks on the family of a man who allegedly committed suicide.
LET ME HAVE MY SON is a drama about an elderly Christian man in Minnesota searching for his son at a mental hospital. Although Ben Whitmore has been told to come retrieve his son, Benny, the hospital’s lead psychiatrist, Dr. Bitterman, seems to be preventing him from seeing Benny. Then, Benny goes missing from the Infirmary. As Ben searches for Benny, he has more trouble trying to find him. Eventually, Ben himself briefly becomes a patient in the mental hospital.
I WILL SOAR is an extraordinary documentary testimony on Pure Flix about one man’s calling to build a successful high school football program at an impoverished city school in his own hometown. Coach “T.J.” Jackson builds student-athletes into “mighty men” ready for exceptional lives beyond the playing field. His genius in building teams reaches even further as he builds partnerships with school administrators and staff, surrounding community resources, and college football recruiters. The movie inserts informative interviews with the varied participants into onsite footage. It paints a gripping picture of Coach Jackson connecting the souls of his team to the wider world.
Harrison Ford returns in INDIANA JONES AND THE DIAL OF DESTINY. In 1944, Indiana Jones and his friend, Basil Shaw, fight a National Socialist engineer named Voller for half of an ancient device invented by Greek mathematician Archimedes. Basil and Voller believe the device, when completed, can open a fissure in time to change the past. Twenty-five years later, after helping America’s moon program, Voller wants to find the device’s other half so he can change the outcome of World War II. Only Indiana Jones and Basil’s daughter, Indy’s goddaughter, stand in his way.
In SPIDER-MAN: ACROSS THE SPIDER-VERSE, Miles Morales encounters a new supervillain calling himself “The Spot.” The Spot is able to throw a large black spot onto a bank vault and steal money or escape through one of the spots he casts. When The Spot amasses enough power to threaten the multiverse, Miles teams up with a society of Spider-Men or Spider-People to stop The Spot. Eventually, however, Miles faces a moral dilemma that affects the people he loves the most.
SPELLERS is a documentary that challenges the viewpoint that non-speakers who have autism have a cognitive disability. Through the lens of eight non-speakers and their parents, SPELLERS shows that a new wave of voices have been found through the use of a letterboard. The letterboards allow non-speakers to spell out each word and form whole sentences, with as much complexity as people who can speak. Inspired by the book UNDERESTIMATED by J.B. Handley, the movie shows that mainstream communities of scientists have so far refused to accept letterboards as a treatment for non-speakers. However, the eight non-speakers prove that the new treatment is giving them a voice, whereas past science said they would always be silent.
ABOUT MY FATHER stars popular standup comic Sebastian Maniscalco. Sebastian plays a successful Hilton hotel manager who wants to propose to his girlfriend, Ellie, at a July Fourth visit to her parents’ summer home. However, his old school Sicilian father, Salvatore, played by Robert DeNiro, won’t let Sebastian use his grandmother’s ring until the father can meet the parents face to face. Reluctantly, Sebastian lets his father come along with them. How long will it take before Sebastian’s father embarrasses Sebastian in front of the future in-laws?
LEARNING TO LOVE is an exuberant, cheerful movie on Pure Flix. It starts with what seems a mistaken job interview between Steph, a proven female ad executive, and Harry, a work-from-home architect looking for a live-in teacher to homeschool his two young daughters. When Steph adds prayer and Bible stories into the curriculum, the situation turns into a redemptive experience, and everyone’s lives are wistfully changed. Teaching and learning become creative. Joy is reignited. Faith in God is reintroduced to a hurting family. And, love abounds. However, the young girls sabotage Steph when it looks like she and their father may get married.
In Episode 309 of STAR TREK: PICARD on Paramount Plus, Counselor Deanna Troi and Admiral Picard’s son, Jack, open the red door in Jack’s mind. They find there’s a Borg Cube lurking behind the red door. Picard’s crew discover that the Borg Collective rewrote part of Picard’s genetic code with Borg information when the Borg captured him 35 years ago. He’s passed this rewritten code onto Jack, and now the Borg are using it to assimilate the whole fleet of the Federation and attack Earth on Frontier Day. How will Picard’s crew reverse this disaster?
FLAMIN’ HOT tells the life story of Richard Montañez, a Mexican American boy who becomes a very successful executive for Frito Lay by inventing flaming hot versions of Frito Lay snacks. Streaming on Hulu and Disney Plus, the movie shows Richard’s difficult life as a Mexican American living in the greater Los Angeles area. It shows how he met his future wife, Judy, and how he joined a gang as a teenager. When Judy gets pregnant in 1982, Richard gives up the gang life and gets a job at Pepsi Frito Lay. He and Judy become Christians, and Richard comes up with an idea to create flaming hot Frito products.
PETER PAN & WENDY on Disney Plus is a fantasy based on the Peter Pan play and novel by J. M. Barrie and the 1953 animated Disney movie. The movie follows the story of Wendy and her brothers being caught up in an adventure with Peter Pan, a character who often features prominently in their mother’s bedtime stories. Desiring not to grow up like Peter, Wendy finds herself swept up in fantastic adventures in Neverland. However, dangers abound as she meets Captain Hook, Peter’s nemesis, and finds out Neverland may not be what she expected. What does this fantasy land truly hold for her?
Episode 3 of CITADEL goes 10 years into the past where Mason and Nadia first worked together by stealing an enriched Ebola virus from the bad guys. It opens with an exciting, spectacular chase scene and gunfight. Later, Mason and Nadia become lovers. In the present day, Nadia takes Mason to a Citadel safe house where the two decide that their only option is to work together. Meanwhile, their boss makes a deal with a former Citadel agent to escape his evil captors and help Nadia and Mason.
SHOOTING STARS follows the early life of NBA star LeBron James and his four best friends, who become America’s best high school basketball team. Streaming on NBC’s Peacock outlet, the movie opens when LeBron, Lil Dru, Sian, Willie, and Romeo are just children. Lil Dru’s father, Dru Joyce, brings them together to play basketball. They play every day and learn to love the sport. When Lil Dru goes to a different school, he convinces the coach at his Catholic private school to take them all on the varsity team. Will they be respected and take the place of the senior players?
Ariel, a beautiful mermaid, wants to see what humans are like in LITTLE MERMAID. So, she swims up and sees a shipwreck. In the ship is a handsome prince, Prince Eric. Prince Eric is saving his dog and falls in the ocean. Ariel saves his life, but Eric is only remembers the sound of her singing. Ariel sells her voice to the evil Sea Witch to receive legs so she can go on land to see Eric. Will Ariel fall in love with Eric, granting her voice back or will she be taken by the sea witch?
FAST X is a sequel to the FAST AND FURIOUS movie FAST FIVE. In FAST FIVE, Dom and his friends teamed up with a spy agency to bring down a Brazilian drug lord. In FAST X, the drug lord’s son hatches an elaborate revenge plot against Dom, his friends and family, to make them suffer for his father’s death. He lures Dom and his team to Rome, Italy, to frame them for a terrorist bombing. Meanwhile, the spy agency’s new head breaks ties with Dom’s team. How can Dom protect his son from the wrath of this mad avenger?
RALLY ROAD RACERS is an animated fantasy adventure. Zhi is a small loris (mammal), living in the last village of his kind in China. He dreams of racing cars. A large toad named Archie Vainglorious is the current road rally champion. Archie owns the deed to Zhi’s village and wants to tear it down, including Zhi’s grandmother’s house. Zhi challenges Archie. If Zhi beats Archie in the Silk Road Rally, a four-day race across China, Archie will give Zhi the deed to the whole village.
HYPNOTIC is a science fiction thriller starring Ben Affleck. Affleck plays Danny Rourke, a Texas police detective who finds a clue to the possible kidnapper of his 7-year-old daughter, who went missing three years ago. Danny found the clue during a violent bank robbery that seems to have been manipulated by a mystery man. Aided by a woman with special knowledge pretending to be a psychic, Danny simultaneously pursues and is pursued by the man, who has special hypnotic powers. The pursuit leads Danny down a rabbit hole into a shadowy world where things aren’t what they seem.
GHOSTED is a comical spy thriller on Apple TV Plus. Cole is a normal American man whose interests include history and farming. When he meets a beautiful girl named Sadie, their relationship goes past first base. After it appears that she ghosts him on social media, he follows her to London. Cole thinks he’s making a romantic gesture. However, he finds himself captured by Russian terrorists who refer to him as “The Taxman” and interrogate him about a weapon. He’s saved in the nick of time by Sadie, who turns out to be an international spy.
JUST JAKE is a romance movie on UPtv. As the movie opens, emerging country singer Jake is having a serious writer’s block. When his record label lets him go after he misses another deadline, his manager friend makes Jake return to their Colorado hometown for inspiration. Everyone welcomes him back, but his high school sweetheart, Amber, is reluctant to see him if he’s just going to leave again like he did years ago. Will love find a way?
CRATER is a new family, space adventure streaming on Disney Plus. After his widowed father dies, a young, now-orphaned boy named Caleb is promised a better life on the paradise planet Omega. However, Caleb learns he only has three days before a 75-year-long journey in cryosleep. With the help of his closest friends and a girl who recently arrived on the moon from Earth, Caleb embarks on one final adventure across the moon’s desolate surface to honor his parents’ dying wish to visit a secret crater.
Chapter 6 of THE WINGFEATHER SAGA on Angel Studios is the explosive conclusion to Season One. In the episode, the Igiby family take their last stand against their nemesis, Slarb, and his Fang army. The family retreats to Anklejelly Manor, a dilapidated mansion, but are attacked by Fang spies. Their forest friend, Peet, comes to the rescue. He revives their dog, Nugget, with a magical elixir, which has turned Nugget into a giant canine. Eventually, the three Igiby children uncover the shocking origins of the powerful Jewels of Anniera. Can the family survive? What is the destiny of the three children?
In Episodes 307 and 308 of STAR TREK: PICARD, the shapeshifting captain seizes control of the Titan. She threatens to kill the people on the bridge one at a time, unless Jack, Picard’s son, surrenders to her. Meanwhile, with Worf’s help, Riker and his wife escape their captors. Picard, Jack and Geordi are hiding in the bowels of the Titan. Their hope is that Data can overcome the mind of his evil twin brother, who’s trying to control of Data’s android body. They need Data’s computer mind to wrest control of the Titan’s systems from the genocidal shapeshifters.
In Episodes 307 and 308 of STAR TREK: PICARD, the shapeshifting captain seizes control of the Titan. She threatens to kill the people on the bridge one at a time, unless Jack, Picard’s son, surrenders to her. Meanwhile, with Worf’s help, Riker and his wife escape their captors. Picard, Jack and Geordi are hiding in the bowels of the Titan. Their hope is that Data can overcome the mind of his evil twin brother, who’s trying to control of Data’s android body. They need Data’s computer mind to wrest control of the Titan’s systems from the genocidal shapeshifters.
BIG GEORGE FOREMAN is an attention-grabbing sports drama, a biopic based on the life of world champion boxing star George Foreman. George fights his way out of poverty by becoming a gold medal boxer in the 1968 Olympics. He then wins the heavyweight championship by beating Joe Frasier in 1974. However, a year later, his ego takes a blow when Muhammed Ali defats him in a championship bout. Eventually, George finds Jesus in a near death experience after another match. He becomes an evangelist at a church and an inner city youth center he starts. However, he decides to return to boxing at age 38 when the youth center has financial problems.
GUARDIANS OF THE GALAXY VOL. 3 tells an emotional tale about the Guardians risking their lives to save a friend. The crazed scientist who experimented created Rocket, the wise-cracking racoon character, wants him returned. One of the villain’s rogue colleagues comes to the Guardians’ headquarters and mortally wounds Rocket. The villain has planted a coded device in Rocket to stop anyone from reviving him. So, while Rocket hangs on for dear life in their spaceship’s medical facility, the Guardians must infiltrate the villain’s huge lab to retrieve the device’s code and save Rocket.
SWEETWATER is the little-known story of basketball player Nat “Sweetwater” Clifton who became the first black player in the NBA. The movie starts with Jim Caviezel in a cameo as a sportswriter who gets in a cab and recognizes the older Sweetwater as his driver. He asks incredulously why Nat is driving a cab. Jump back to 1949, where Nat’s playing for the Harlem Globetrotters in an exhibition game with NBA world champion Minneapolis Lakers. The rest of the movie shows how Nat broke the racial barrier to become the first black player with the New York Knicks.
THE WAY is an inspiring, captivating movie about the spiritual journey of a father who lost his son on a religious pilgrimage in Europe. Tom, an agnostic eye doctor, goes to pick up his son’s body in France. There, he learns about the religious pilgrimage his son was taking when he died suddenly. The Camino de Santiago is a spiritual journey starting in France and leading to the Catholic church in Santiago in Northwestern Spain, where tradition says the remains of Jesus Christ’s brother, St. James, are buried. Feeling guilt and wanting to reconnect with his dead son, Tom decides to walk the path himself. Along the way, he meets several other people doing the same thing, and his hardened heart is transformed.
GUY RITCHIE’S THE COVENANT follows the story of U.S. Army Sergeant John Kinley and his new Afghan interpreter, Ahmed. The Taliban ambush Kinley and kill all his men at a weapons cache. Ahmed and Kinley must evade the Taliban and flee into the brutal Afghan wilderness. Kinley is shot, but Ahmed summons what strength he has left to get Kinley home. Ahmed and his family continue to live in hiding after the American miliary withdraws. The tale of his heroic rescue of Kinley spreads. Kinley vows to help Ahmed and his family no matter what.
IT AIN’T OVER is a documentary about the life of famed New York Yankees catcher, Lawrence Peter “Yogi” Berra. Yogi was a larger-than-life presence to his teammates, family and all who knew him. The movie details his feats as a formidable major league player, his personal life, and his “Yogi-isms,” hilarious, nonsensical sayings for which he became famous. One of the funniest is, “When you come to a fork in the road, take it.” Many of his sayings became popular American idioms, such as “It ain’t over til it’s over,” a reference to the final ninth inning of professional baseball.
ANXIOUS NATION is an important documentary about the anxiety that seems to be plaguing many young people today. The movie discusses the problem and offers solutions. The movie shows the hardships of growing up with anxiety, and how parents can help their child through it all. The movie warns viewers that feelings of anxiety sometimes can lead to depression and suicide. Experts are shown talking about ways to combat anxiety and mental health in a healthy way, so parents can help their children navigate an imperfect world.
PATTERNS OF EVIDENCE: JOURNEY TO MOUNT SINAI II is a documentary where investigative filmmaker Timothy Mahoney examines three of six possible sites for Mount Sinai where God gave Moses and his followers the Ten Commandments. After rejecting three sites in the first movie, Mahoney and his crew visit the remaining three sites. Mahoney talks to archeologists and historians about the three sites. They look at possible campsites leading to the mountains. They examine the physical attributes around them, and any ancient artifacts or inscriptions. For example, is there enough water and is there a possible altar?
THE POPE’S EXORCIST gives the Vatican’s chief exorcist from 1992 to 2016 the Hollywood treatment. At 63, Father Gabriele Amorth has only been the apprentice of the Vatican’s chief exorcist for a year, since 1986. Although Father Amorth won’t take that position himself until 1992, he’s proven himself to be a wise, capable defender of the Faith against Satan’s minions. A year later, the good priest faces his biggest challenge. A powerful demon has taken possession of an American boy at a Spanish abbey with an awful past.
CHUPA is a delightful, animated fantasy on Netflix. It follows the adventures of a Mexican boy from Kansas, Alejandro, who meets a young Chupacabra on summer vacation in Mexico with his grandfather and his two cousins. Alejandro decides to try and return his new friend to its mother. However, a scientist doing research in the area, who seeks the creature for selfish reasons, tries to capture Chupa.
POLITE SOCIETY is an action comedy from Britain about two sisters from a Pakistani Muslim family. Ria is a high school student who attends a martial arts class and longs to be a Hollywood stuntwoman. Her older sister, Lena, has quit her dream of being an artist. Later, Ria becomes upset when Lena starts going out with Salim, a handsome rich young doctor with an overbearing mother. When Lena and Salim get engaged only a month later, Ria is furious that Lena has given up on her dreams. She decides to sabotage the wedding but is surprised when she discovers that the plans Salim and his mother have for Lena are much worse than she imagined.
LOVE AGAIN is a romance about Mira, a children’s author in New York who witnesses the accidental death of her boyfriend, John. The two were growing very close, and John was about to propose. So, two years later, Mira’s still grieving and hiding out at her parents’ home outside the city. Mira’s sister convinces her to return to the city. An older friend says he copes with his wife’s death by pretending to talk to her. So, Mira starts texting John on his old smartphone, and ends up forming a love connection to a music critic who’s been reassigned the phone number.
Chapter 5 of THE WINGFEATHER SAGA is an animated fantasy television series streaming on Angel Studios. It centers on the Igiby children trying to break their mother and grandfather out of Fang prison. Their neighbors distract the guards for the children. However, the local Fang commander already knows about the prison break. He and his soldiers capture the children. He sentences the entire Igiby family to the inhumane Fang gulag. Is there any way for them to escape?
The final three installments of A SHOW ABOUT ANTHEM LIGHTS, an animated comedy on Pure Flix, take skeptical shots at the Christian music industry and church pastors. In Episode 118, the band goes on a cruise, where they take themselves too seriously. In the next episode, the band attends a Sunday morning worship service and asks the self-absorbed pastor for a favor. Finally, in Episode 120, the band goes to the pastor and their social media publicist to get help with the growing dissension in the band, but they get no help.
In “The Mines of Mandalore,” the second episode of Season Three of THE MANDALORIAN on Disney Plus, Din Djarin and Grogu explore the ruins of Mandalore. Din must “baptize” himself in the “Living Waters” of the planet’s mines, or else risk being shunned forever by his former clan. Din Djarin and Grogu dive into the caverns, fend off some monsters, and reach the holy water. However, an evil cyborg captures Din by surprise. Can Grogu rescue his adoptive father in time? Will Din get to bathe in the Living Waters?
CITADEL is a new spy thriller on Amazon Prime. In the first two episodes, a spy named Mason Kane and his former partner, Nadia, are two of the last living agents of Citadel, an independent spy agency working against an evil crime syndicate called Manticore. Run by eight of the world’s richest families, Manticore has found a hidden black case that holds all of Citadel’s remaining secrets and access to the world’s nuclear weapons. Mason has retrieved the case, but Manticore has captured Citadel’s current director, which places Mason’s wife and daughter in danger.
In Episode 305 and 306 of STAR TREK: PICARD, Star Fleet sends a woman to investigate Picard’s actions on the Titan. Picard could face a court martial. However, the woman is a friend. She warns that a cabal of shapeshifting creatures has infiltrated Star Fleet. They’re bent on revenge against Star Fleet and all “solid” creatures. Picard flees from Star Fleet warships. With help from his former Chief Engineer, he sends an Away Team to infiltrate the Daystrom Institute to see what other terrible weapon the shapeshifters took.
1917 is a powerful, patriotic, moral war movie set at the western front in France and Belgium during World War I. A British commander sends two soldiers, Blake and Schofield, across No Man’s Land through bombed-out areas to warn 1600 British troops on the front lines that they are heading into a German trap. Blake is chosen because his brother is among the 1600 troops. Schofield doesn’t want to go, but Blake heads off, and Schofield follows him. Will they make it in time?
A FATHER’S HEART is a Christian documentary in a limited theatrical release from a Roman Catholic perspective. It highlights the miraculous works of Saint Joseph, Jesus Christ’s earthly father, and contains interviews with priests and other people who say Joseph has revived their faith and touched their lives miraculously. The movie spans across several places around the world, including France, Spain, Italy, Canada, and the United States.
BIG GEORGE FOREMAN is an attention-grabbing sports drama, a biopic based on the life of world champion boxing star George Foreman. George fights his way out of poverty by becoming a gold medal boxer in the 1968 Olympics. He then wins the heavyweight championship by beating Joe Frasier in 1974. However, a year later, his ego takes a blow when Muhammed Ali defats him in a championship bout. Eventually, George finds Jesus in a near death experience after another match. He becomes an evangelist at a church and an inner city youth center he starts. However, he decides to return to boxing at age 38 when the youth center has financial problems.
SWEETWATER is the little-known story of basketball player Nat “Sweetwater” Clifton who became the first black player in the NBA. The movie starts with Jim Caviezel in a cameo as a sportswriter who gets in a cab and recognizes the older Sweetwater as his driver. He asks incredulously why Nat is driving a cab. Jump back to 1949, where Nat’s playing for the Harlem Globetrotters in an exhibition game with NBA world champion Minneapolis Lakers. The rest of the movie shows how Nat broke the racial barrier to become the first black player with the New York Knicks.
GUY RITCHIE’S THE COVENANT follows the story of U.S. Army Sergeant John Kinley and his new Afghan interpreter, Ahmed. The Taliban ambush Kinley and kill all his men at a weapons cache. Ahmed and Kinley must evade the Taliban and flee into the brutal Afghan wilderness. Kinley is shot, but Ahmed summons what strength he has left to get Kinley home. Ahmed and his family continue to live in hiding after the American miliary withdraws. The tale of his heroic rescue of Kinley spreads. Kinley vows to help Ahmed and his family no matter what.
THE POPE’S EXORCIST gives the Vatican’s chief exorcist from 1992 to 2016 the Hollywood treatment. At 63, Father Gabriele Amorth has only been the apprentice of the Vatican’s chief exorcist for a year, since 1986. Although Father Amorth won’t take that position himself until 1992, he’s proven himself to be a wise, capable defender of the Faith against Satan’s minions. A year later, the good priest faces his biggest challenge. A powerful demon has taken possession of an American boy at a Spanish abbey with an awful past.
CHUPA is a delightful, animated fantasy on Netflix. It follows the adventures of a Mexican boy from Kansas, Alejandro, who meets a young Chupacabra on summer vacation in Mexico with his grandfather and his two cousins. Alejandro decides to try and return his new friend to its mother. However, a scientist doing research in the area, who seeks the creature for selfish reasons, tries to capture Chupa.
Chapter 5 of THE WINGFEATHER SAGA is an animated fantasy television series streaming on Angel Studios. It centers on the Igiby children trying to break their mother and grandfather out of Fang prison. Their neighbors distract the guards for the children. However, the local Fang commander already knows about the prison break. He and his soldiers capture the children. He sentences the entire Igiby family to the inhumane Fang gulag. Is there any way for them to escape?
In “The Mines of Mandalore,” the second episode of Season Three of THE MANDALORIAN on Disney Plus, Din Djarin and Grogu explore the ruins of Mandalore. Din must “baptize” himself in the “Living Waters” of the planet’s mines, or else risk being shunned forever by his former clan. Din Djarin and Grogu dive into the caverns, fend off some monsters, and reach the holy water. However, an evil cyborg captures Din by surprise. Can Grogu rescue his adoptive father in time? Will Din get to bathe in the Living Waters?
In Episode 305 and 306 of STAR TREK: PICARD, Star Fleet sends a woman to investigate Picard’s actions on the Titan. Picard could face a court martial. However, the woman is a friend. She warns that a cabal of shapeshifting creatures has infiltrated Star Fleet. They’re bent on revenge against Star Fleet and all “solid” creatures. Picard flees from Star Fleet warships. With help from his former Chief Engineer, he sends an Away Team to infiltrate the Daystrom Institute to see what other terrible weapon the shapeshifters took.
A FATHER’S HEART is a Christian documentary in a limited theatrical release from a Roman Catholic perspective. It highlights the miraculous works of Saint Joseph, Jesus Christ’s earthly father, and contains interviews with priests and other people who say Joseph has revived their faith and touched their lives miraculously. The movie spans across several places around the world, including France, Spain, Italy, Canada, and the United States.
THE SUPER MARIO BROS. MOVIE (2023) is a new movie based on the iconic Nintendo video game about brothers Mario and Luigi, two plumbers from Brooklyn, New York. After Mario and Luigi find a green pipe in the sewers, they are transported into a different universe. The brothers end up getting separated, but both find themselves wrapped up in an evil plot by King Bowser. Bowser has seized a Super Star, which he plans to use to kidnap and marry Princess Peach, take over Mushroom Kingdom, and rule the world. Can Mario reunite with his brother Luigi and stop Bowser’s evil plot?
DUNGEONS & DRAGONS: HONOR AMONG THIEVES is a wild fantasy with lots of action and adventure. A former thief named Edgin gathers a team together to save his daughter, Kira, who’s been kidnapped by a former colleague named Forge. With help from an evil sorceress, Forge has usurped a kingdom to become Lord of Nevermore. To make matters worse, Forge has lied to Kira about Edgin, turning her heart against her father. Edgin and his friends must retrieve a magical item to prove to his daughter that Forge lied to her.
THE LOST KING is a drama based on a true story. Philippa Langley is an unhappy, divorced mother of two suffering from an occasionally debilitating case of chronic fatigue syndrome. She and her husband still live together for the sake of their children. After watching a presentation of Shakespeare’s play RICHARD III, Philippa becomes obsessed with the historical British king. After some research, she goes on a quest to restore Richard’s reputation and find his final resting place. She convinces some powerful entities to support her cause but faces stiff opposition from the academic establishment.
AIR is a comical drama about how the shoe company, Nike, landed its game-changing account with basketball rookie and future superstar Michael Jordan in 1984. Nike’s basketball expert, Sonny Vaccaro, has seen clips of Michael playing in high school, college and the Olympics. He thinks Nike should build a shoe around Michael instead of seeking endorsements from several players. He faces opposition to his idea at Nike and with Michael’s agent. Michael himself really isn’t all that impressed with Nike’s line of running shoes. He prefers Converse shoes. However, Sonny learns that Michael’s wise mother, Deloris, makes all the family’s business decisions. So, he takes a risk and approaches her personally.
A THOUSAND AND ONE is a well-acted slice-of-life drama about a homeless young black woman in Brooklyn in 1994. Inez tries to make ends meet working on people’s hair, but she lives in shelters and other people’s places. Inez puts her life in danger when she abducts her 6-year-old son, Terry, from the foster care system when his current foster parents let Terry roam the streets. She changes Terry’s name to Darrell Terry and moves to Harlem. As the years pass, she finds a job, gets an apartment and marries her boyfriend while Terry succeeds in school. However, new circumstances cause big changes in their lives. Will their love abide?
HEART OF A CHAMPION is a family drama on Amazon Prime about a 14-year-old girl named Charlotte, or Charlie. Charlie has a dream about riding a horse. Her father’s friend, Clint, owns a stable of horses. So, Clint offers to help train Charlie to ride, and Charlie becomes interested in barrel riding. As Clint keeps training Charlie, he starts falling for Charlie’s mother, Beth. Clint takes Charlie all the way to the Texas State Finals in barrel racing, but obstacles arise that may derail Charlie’s competition there.
THE WINGFEATHER SAGA is an animated fantasy television series on Angel Studios, based on the books by Andrew Peterson. The fourth chapter, “Escape to Peet’s Castle,” begins when a tree dwelling man named Peet saves the Igiby children from a pack of wolves. When the children question Peet about the potential anti-Fang uprising, he orders them to return home. Later that day, the children’s grandfather reunites with them, and they start to head home. Meanwhile, the Fang army has decided to arrest the Igibys once and for all. Nia, the children’s mother, hears about the planed arrest and makes contingency plans. Will she be arrested? Can the children avoid capture?
Part One of BILL RUSSELL: LEGEND on Netflix recounts the amazing life story of one of the greatest NBA players, Bill Russell. Russell led the Boston Celtics to a record 11 NBA Titles in 13 years. The movie shows that Russell was determined to crush racism by being the best basketball player in the world and supporting integration. It sets up his friendly yet fierce rivalry with the equally legendary player, Wilt Chamberlain and pictures his early married life.
PRAISE THIS is a musical streaming on Peacock. Sam is a teenage girl from Los Angeles who wants to be a singer. Her widowed father is exasperated with her disrespectful attitude. He sends her to stay with her Christian uncle, aunt and cousin in Atlanta. Sam is caught lying to get into an adult party, and her uncle orders her to join his church’s choir. Sam makes friends with multiple Christian young people and begins to infuse biblical themes into her music. Will all this transform her?
THE MAGICIAN’S ELEPHANT is an animated adventure movie on Netflix. Peter is an orphan boy living with a military veteran who wants him to become a soldier. After visiting a fortune teller, Peter is instructed to find and follow an elephant who can lead him to his long-lost sister. Peter is skeptical at first, until an elephant is magically summoned by a failing magician. The King isn’t sure of what to do with the elephant and agrees to let Peter keep it if he completes three impossible tasks. Will Peter be able to do the impossible and find his sister?
ON A WING AND A PRAYER tells the inspiring true story of Doug White and his miraculous flying of a plane when the pilot dies. Due to the day being Easter Sunday, the air traffic controllers on duty have little to no flight experience. However, God orchestrates the lives of several different people to help Doug and his wife fly the plane. When it comes time to land, high winds and a storm appear to make that impossible. Doug and his family must rely on the power of prayer and God’s faithfulness for a miracle.
THE JOURNEY: A MUSIC SPECIAL FROM ANDREA BOCELLI is a beautiful production of Andrea Bocelli traveling on a pilgrimage with his wife, Veronica, while meeting some of their favorite performers along the way. They ride through the Tuscan countryside in Italy. They meet up with wonderful performers like Tori Kelly, Michael W. Smith, Katherine Jenkins, TAYA, Tauren Wells, and Hauser from 2Cellos. Each performer sings a beautiful worship song in incredible locations, like magnificent Italian cathedrals and other colorful settings.
HIS ONLY SON is a dramatic retelling of the story of Abraham from Genesis, with a focus on God’s commandment to Abraham to sacrifice his son, Isaac, on Mount Moriah. The movie takes a contemplative look at God’s command, Abraham’s struggle with carrying it out, and their meaning. As Abraham and his son travel to the mountain, the movie artfully depicts the patriarch’s life up to that moment. The tension is palpable as Abraham, the man of faith, and his only son reach the mountain.
NEFARIOUS is a supernatural thriller. A skeptical psychiatrist, Dr. James Martin, takes the place of another psychiatrist who committed suicide. Dr. Martin has to interview a condemned serial killer to see if he’s sane enough to be executed. The prisoner tells the psychiatrist that he’s a demon called Lord Nefarious. Martin asks Nefarious to prove that he’s a demon, but he gets more than he expected by making such a foolish demand.
LUCKY LOUIE is a faith-based mystery about solving a 50-year-old bank robbery mystery. Retired police detective Wilbert Moser is obsessed with finding the mastermind behind the robbery, who left his three partners in the lurch by absconding with $350,000. Though the statute of limitations has run out, he still has nightmares about the case. To top it off, the men in his weekly Bible study, who are ex-cons that Wilbert brought to Christ, are tired of hearing about the case. When a young college student wants to write her thesis about the case, Wilbert reluctantly agrees to show her and his friends how the robbery occurred.
CHANG CAN DUNK is a unique teenage sports drama on Disney+. Bernard Chang is a 16-year-old basketball fanatic who hopes to overcome his shyness and become more popular at his school. In band practice, he meets a girl named Kristy who plays drums like him. However, the most popular player on the varsity basketball team, Matt, is also interested in Kristy. Words are said, and Chang makes a daring bet with Matt that he can dunk a basketball by Homecoming, despite being only five foot eight inches tall. Chang and his friend, Bo, hire a former overseas basketball star to train Chang. However, can winning a bet really be the answer to the question of meaning in Chang’s life? And, what will happen when Chang’s mom finds out about the bet?
iMORDECAI is a bittersweet comedy about relearning how to love in the midst of life’s trials and triumphs. Mordecai is a Polish Holocaust survivor living in Brooklyn with his beloved wife, who’s beginning to develop dementia. Mordecai’s life is transformed when his son buys him an iPhone. They find a “gig economy” entrepreneur named Nina to teach Mordecai how to use it. As a new world opens up to Mordecai via social media, he sees the impact he’s had and continues to have on other people, including his wife, son and new friends. Mordecai learns not to allow life’s trials to poison his love of life and other people.
JOHN WICK 4 stars Keanu Reeves as John Wick, a retired assassin who’s battling an international criminal syndicate to which he once belonged. The syndicate, which calls itself the High Table, sends a vicious emissary, the Marquis, to have John killed and strip one of John’s biggest friends, Winston, of his power. The Marquis sends many assassins after John, but Winston suggests that, instead of killing everyone, John should rejoin the High Table and challenge the Marquis to a duel. The Marquis decides to make sure John never makes it to the duel, so he either must die or must forfeit.
INSIDE is an intense drama about an art thief in New York City trapped in the fancy apartment of an art collector away on business. During the thief’s heist of several paintings, the alarm malfunctions. Just as suddenly, the alarm shuts down, trapping the thief in the apartment, with very little food and no running water. The thief discovers the sprinklers for an inside tree garden are still running. However, the alarm system controls the heating and cooling system, and the temperature inside rises past 100 degrees.
SOUTHERN GOSPEL is a Christian film based on true events in the life of Sam Allen, a 1960s rockstar. Sam is the young son of a popular preacher, who pastors an evangelical church but also encourages Sam’s budding talents as a singer and guitarist. When Sam witnesses the tragic death of a friend, the harsh blame he receives for her death drives him to leave his faith and start a life of debauchery. A tragic car accident caused by intoxicated driving gives Sam a wake-up call. Can he make a lasting change?
CHAMPIONS is a well-made sports comedy. It stars Woody Harrelson as Marcus, a minor league basketball coach who must do 90 days of community service in Des Moines, Iowa coaching a group of mentally challenged young men in the Special Olympics program. These misfits don’t have a snowball’s chance to make it to the international finals. Or do they? Marcus fashions them into a competitive powerhouse when he follows two pieces of great advice. He doesn’t have to turn the players into the Lakers. Just make them a team. And, get to know them as people, not just players.
OPERATION FORTUNE: RUSE DE GUERRE is a sleek, action-filled, comical spy movie about a team of British spies trying to stop a stolen device from getting into the wrong hands and creating a global economic crisis. The British government hires Orson Fortune to stop a billionaire named Simmonds from selling the stolen device to the highest bidder. Simmonds is obsessed with a famous Hollywood action star. So, Fortune’s team blackmails the star to help them infiltrate Simmonds’ inner circle.
The first three episodes of A THOUSAND TOMORROWS on Pure Flix introduce Cody Gunner, a bull rider who struggles with anger, and Ali Daniels, a barrel rider with a deadly illness. Both win big at the rodeo and begin to discover God’s plan as they face their own challenges. Cody’s mother tries to get him to reconcile with his estranged father, but he remains bitter. As Ali’s condition worsens, she confronts the fact that her illness will take away everything she loves. Cody and Ali become friends and learn to trust each other with their struggles.
The new CBS action comedy, TRUE LIES, is based on the 1994 movie starring Arnold Schwarzenegger. Harry Tasker’s wife, Helen, thinks he sells computers to insurance companies. However, he’s actually a skilled international spy who keeps his double life a secret from her and their two children. Harry returns home from a mission, but he doesn’t realize that Helen thinks he’s become a bit boring. When he suddenly gets called away on a mission to Paris, Harry decides to take her with him, for a romantic vacation. However, the bad guys kidnap them. So, Harry must save their lives while he explains to Helen the truth about his other life as a spy.
Episodes 303 and 304 of STAR TREK: PICARD offer exhilarating space adventure where a new threat to the Federation is exposed. Picard, two friends, Picard’s son, and the crew of the Federation starship Titan are in a deadly battle with a warship captained by a female bounty hunter. For some unknown reason, she’s after Picard’s son. The battle with the warship sends a disabled Titan into a free fall to the middle of a nebula, toward what appears to be a ship-destroying gravity well. Can Picard and the others onboard make a daring escape? Also, who’s behind the warship’s attacks and the destruction of a Starfleet recruitment center?
COCOA is a quirky comedy on Amazon Prime. Sisters Faith and Hope try to overcome their financial woes by inventing a gluten-free chocolate cake that helps people lose weight. Meanwhile, a young man tries to get into the “family business” with the local Mafia boss and decides to steal the cake recipe. A dog dies and a suitcase is stolen. Chaos ensues. Will the sisters overcome the odds stacked against them?
BRUISER is a family drama on Hulu about the coming of age of a 14-year-old black teenager, his family dynamics and relationship to a drifter who may be more than what he seems. Coming home for vacation from his expensive preparatory school in the city, 14-year-old Darious finds himself without friends. Also, his strict father, Malcolm, a car salesman, is overly busy and aloof, and his Christian mother, Monica, is loving but somewhat suffocating. Darious finds out the drifter, Porter, is his biological father. He decides to try to get to know Porter. However, this creates conflict, especially with the stepfather. Has Darious, in seeking solace from someone “cool” rather than someone of good character, made a mistake he’ll regret?
The Movieguide Award winner, 5000 BLANKETS, is a moving, inspiring drama about a woman and her son who start a movement that inspires a city. Cyndi loves her husband, Bobby, very much, but Bobby deals with mental health issues. One day, he suffers a breakdown and goes missing. Cyndi and her son, Phillip, look for Bobby throughout the town and in the areas where homeless people congregate. One day, while talking to a homeless woman, Cyndi realizes she and others like her need blankets to keep them warm. So, she and Phillip start handing out blankets to homeless and needy people.
CREED III is another movie in the ROCKY franchise about Apollo Creed’s son, Adonis. Adonis Creed’s world turns upside down when an old friend comes into town and wants to fight Adonis’ lead boxer. When Adonis was young, he followed his friend, Damian, to boxing matches. One day Damian and Adonis get into trouble, and Damian is taken away by police. Eighteen years later, Damian gets out of jail and comes to Adonis’ gym. Damian wants to fight Adonis’ lead fighter, Felix. Adonis only says yes because he feels guilty about the past.
JUNIPER is a drama from New Zealand. It tells the bittersweet story of an unlikely relationship between Sam, a suicidal 17-year-old, and his grandmother, Ruth. Sam’s father reluctantly takes in Ruth, an elderly alcoholic whose self-destructive nature matches Sam’s. Ironically, Ruth may be the key to Sam’s reclamation. A renowned, world-traveling journalist, Ruth comes to see there’s more of her in her grandson than she thought. They get to know each other over drinks and philosophical conversations about life and death. Could it be that this disturbed, unhappy teenager can help his difficult, world-weary grandmother face mortality as she helps him embrace life?
MIRACLE AT MANCHESTER is a drama streaming on Pure Flix starring Dean Cain and Kory Getman. The movie is based on the inspiring true story of Bryce Newman, a student at Cathedral Catholic High School in San Diego. Bryce starts having headaches after baseball practice and goes to the hospital. Dr. Getty, played by Dean Cain, discovers that Bryce has an aggressive brain cancer that must be treated immediately with surgery and chemotherapy. The initial surgery goes well, but cancer remains. Through family, community and the power of prayer, Bryce battles the cancer with faith and perseverance. As his classmates, friends and family pray for a miracle, broken relationships are restored and healed.
In Season One of SUPERKITTIES on Disney+, ordinary kittens living in a kindergarten transform into superheroes when the animals in Kittydale need help. Typically, the SuperKitties use their unique gadgets to solve problems and stop misguided villains from causing trouble. If any SuperKitty struggles with a moral dilemma, their teammates help them do the right thing. The heroes usually pass that lesson on to the villains after defeating them. The first three episodes of SUPERKITTIES feature six stories about returning stolen items, being patient, trying new things, spending time with friends, making amends, and sharing the spotlight.
Episode 1 of PRINCESS POWER on Netflix opens with Penny Pineapple using her chemistry lab to create a bubble wand that makes giant sticky bubbles to pick up her messy room. Later, Penny Pineapple employs her “Unstoppable Unpoppable” bubble wand, when the four princesses from four different fruit kingdoms come together to save Kira Kiwi’s hamster, Mr. Scruffles, who’s stuck in a fireplace chimney. However, Penny’s bubble works too well and creates “an epic case of bubble trouble.” One of the girls and two pets get stuck in the high flying bubble. Can the girls save the day?
The first three episodes of A SHOW ABOUT ANTHEM LIGHTS, streaming on Pure Flix, launch a fun animation series with a musical comedy format about the work life of a real-life vocal group known as Anthem Lights. Each episode’s plot is about the fears, the pitfalls and the potential victories artists in the music industry wrestle with, day in and day out, all portrayed with humor and song. Challenges like members of the group agreeing on projects and working together against deadlines or reacting to criticism, even hostility, are mixed with lively tunes, lyrics and comical situations.
Based on a true story, TRUE SPIRIT follows 16-year-old Jessica Watson as she tries to become the youngest person to sail solo around the world. Jessica faces setbacks in training, a hostile media, violent storms, and loneliness. However, she relies on her family, her coach and her skills to pursue her goal. While at sea, Jessica encounters the beauty of the ocean and writes and videos her experiences. Unknown to her, her story inspires the world. Eventually, she faces the most challenging storm, and her boat springs a leak. Should she abandon her goal and return to shore? Or, continue to risk her life and try to finish her journey?
Episodes 2 and 3 of 1923 on Paramount Plus tell two intense survival stories. In the first, the Dutton family, led by Jacob and Cara, and their cowboys face off against Scottish sheepherders trespassing on their land. In their first encounter with the sheepherders, Jacob makes a decision that will have deadly consequences for the family. In the second story, Jacob’s adopted nephew, Spencer, overcomes two man-eating leopards in Africa. Then, while recovering from his wounds in Nairobi, he falls for a pretty Englishwoman and takes her with him on a dangerous job to stop a hyena attacking railway workers.
NATIONAL TREASURE: EDGE OF HISTORY is an action adventure series on Disney Plus based on Disney’s NATIONAL TREASURE movies. In the first four episodes, a college student on DACA named Jess Valenzuela and her friends are thrust into a treasure hunt for a Latin American treasure against a ruthless female billionaire and unscrupulous antiquities dealer named Billie Pearce. As Jess searches for the treasure, she discovers that her father, who she thought was good for nothing, was a guardian of this treasure and her mother had a thesis paper rejected based on the treasure. In addition, Jess finds herself the target of an FBI investigation after making some trouble at historical sites.
In THE WINGFEATHER SAGA, Chapter 2 and 3, on angel.com, the Igiby family lays low from their reptilian overlords, the Fang. Tink, the adventurous middle child, stumbles upon a hidden treasure map. Janner, the eldest son, cautions his brother to hold off the treasure hunt. However, in the third chapter, “The Catacombs Below,” Janner receives terrible news. The Fang soldiers are kidnapping children all over town, and his siblings are next. With no other option, the three children embark on a quest into the woods to find a way to defeat their Fang overlords. They soon discover a secret that will change their lives.
THE AMAZING MAURICE is an animated fantasy comedy based on a book by the late acclaimed fantasy writer Terry Pratchett. The movie follows a talking cat named Maurice, a boy named Keith and their band of talking rats who scam towns and villages out of their money. However, their scam is jeopardized by a mysterious evil that could put the whole kingdom in danger. Eventually, Maurice must decide to change his selfish ways if he wants to defeat evil and save his friends.
THE CHOSEN SEASON 3 FINALE is a theatrical presentation of the last two episodes of Season 3. In the finale, Simon Peter struggles with his faith in the wake of his wife’s miscarriage. Meanwhile, Andrew, Simon’s brother, and Phillip return from the eastern part of Galilee, where one of Jesus’ parables has caused disruptions between the Gentiles and Jews living there. Jesus and the apostles walk there to try to resolve the situation, and He ends up preaching for three days to a large crowd of more than 5,000 people. At the same time, the Jewish leaders are becoming more upset.
JESUS REVOLUTION is an accurate, compressed portrait of the hippies and Vietnam War protestors who find Jesus because God calls several Christians to tell them about Jesus Christ. The plot is propelled by a love story between an impoverished young man, Greg Laurie, with an alcoholic mother, and Cathe, a beautiful young woman from a wealthy Southern California family. Cathe becomes burned out by the drug scene. She brings Greg to Pastor Chuck Smith’s growing church in Newport Beach. Lonnie Frisbee, a young hippie preacher, has convinced Chuck to open his church to the young, disaffected people who’ve been drawn to Southern California.
SHOTGUN WEDDING is a comedy thriller on Amazon Prime. Starring Jennifer Lopez and Josh Duhamel. It tells the harrowing but humorous tale of Darcy and Tom as they prepare for their big wedding bash in the Philippines. Before the wedding starts, the bride and groom contend with some family drama and each other’s personal insecurities. Some pirates invade the upcoming nuptials and hold the wedding party hostage, to extort some ransom money from Darcy’s father. Tom and Darcy awkwardly and humorously spring into action to thwart the dastardly pirates.
In ANT-MAN AND THE WASP: QUANTUMANIA, a powerful time-traveling villain named Kang has been stranded in the Quantum Realm for years. He manages to transport Scott Lang, the Ant-Man, and his daughter, Cassie, into the Quantum Realm. He wants to use Scott’s Ant-Man technology to escape the Quantum Realm and resume his career of destroying and conquering whole planets. Kang has also transported Scott’s fiancée, Hope, Scott’s partner the Wasp, and her parents, Hank and Janet, the original Ant-Man and the Wasp. Kang threatens Scott’s daughter if Scott doesn’t help Kang. Of course, Scott can’t trust Kang, but what choice does he have?
THE GRACE AWARD FOR MOVIES & TELEVISION is awarded annually to an actor or actress in a motion picture or television program who exemplifies God’s grace and mercy toward us as human beings through their outstanding performance.
The Epiphany Prize for Inspiring Movies & TV is awarded to popular, entertaining movies and television programs that are wholesome, spiritually uplifting, inspirational, redemptive and moral.
The Faith & Freedom Awards for Promoting Positive American Values are awarded for entertainment value, for craftsmanship, and for creating programming that is uplifting, moral, insightful, compassionate, and that shows America and its people in a positive light. The Faith and Freedom Awards are given to the one movie and/or one TV program that do the most to improve cultural understanding between Americans and people of other countries by showing a positive or more balanced view of America and Americans, including presenting the best of American values such as liberty, religious freedom, freedom of speech, the right to vote, property rights, proper compassion for others, protection of the innocent, the right to due process, the right to life and to pursue happiness, the rule of the law, democracy, capitalism, personal responsibility, the right to bear firearms, and a believe in limited and responsible government, equal justice under the law, and government by the consent of the governed.
The core of the Movieguide® awards are the best movies for family audience and best movies for mature audiences which are chosen for their moral and spiritual principles, as well as their production values. They tell a story that is both redemptive and inspiring to their audiences.
The core of the Movieguide® awards are the best movies for family audience and best movies for mature audiences which are chosen for their moral and spiritual principles, as well as their production values. They tell a story that is both redemptive and inspiring to their audiences.
80 FOR BRADY is a comedy about four senior ladies who love to root for Tom Brady and the New England Patriots. They even have a few superstitions about game time every Sunday. After the Patriots win the 2017 AFC Championship game, the ladies hear about a contest to get four tickets and a hotel room in Houston for the Super Bowl between the Patriots and the Atlanta Falcons. However, complications ensue when they lose their tickets, and the Patriots are down 28 to 3 in the third quarter.
MURF THE SURF: JEWELS, JESUS AND MAYHEM IN THE USA is a documentary miniseries on MGM+. The series discusses The Crime of the 20th Century when Jack Murphy, aka Murf the Surf, and other Miami Beach boys stole the Star of India sapphire from the Museum of Natural History in 1964. Before that, Murf left Southern California to become a surfing champion in Florida. The first episode contains many references foreshadowing Murf’s conversion, including his statement that “you don’t find God, He finds you,” and an evangelistic clip from a Billy Graham crusade. After serving time in prison for theft, and, then again for murder, Murf finds Jesus, writes a book and spends 26 years in prison ministry.
FIRE OF LOVE is a documentary about two volcanologists who focused their marriage around their work understanding the earth and getting as close as they could to its volcanic eruptions. Maurice and Katia Krafft met, fell in love and ultimately perished thanks to their adoration for volcanoes. In the course of their brief but passionate lives, the Kraffts captured some of the best candid volcanic imagery ever recorded, which survives to this very day.
MACK & RITA follows the story of Mack Martin, a 30-year-old writer who’s always felt 70-years-old at heart. Striving to act like a 30-year-old, she never masters what other girls her age enjoy doing, especially drinking and partying. She heads to Palm Springs for a bachelorette trip, only to be reminded how much of an old woman she is at heart. Disappointed she can’t force herself to party with the other women, Mack wanders into a past life “regression” tent. The experience transforms her into a 70-year-old woman! She starts calling herself Rita, Mack’s elderly aunt.
GOING HOME: “Charley’s Way” is the opening episode to a drama streaming on Pure Flix about daily life in a hospice for terminally ill patients. It focuses on the facility’s head nurse, Charley Copeland. Charley arrives at Sunset House at the end of her jogging commute. Her workday commences with the nurses’ report, where the previous shift briefs the incoming shift, followed by a new patient arrival. The episode’s trajectory turns to the patient and their family, and the thoughts and feelings they have about the patient’s imminent death. Charley and the staff encourage them to have a healthy acceptance of “death as a part of life.”
The Season One finale of STAR WARS: ANDOR on Disney Plus begins with Cassian Andor returning to Ferrix to secretly attend his adopted mother’s funeral. As Andor watches, the people gather in the town square to hear a message Andor’s mother recorded before she died. Her message to the people: Wake up and fight the empire! The people rebel, but Imperial troops attack them. Andor must rescue his tortured friend Bix, who’s held captive by the secret police. Meanwhile, Bix and Andor’s contact to the Rebel Alliance has come to kill him if the Empire takes Andor alive.
DOG GONE is a family drama on Netflix. A college graduate bonds with a dog, but when the dog goes missing, his whole family steps in to help. Fielding loves his dog, Gonker, but when he moves back home, his parents are concerned his primary focus is the dog, with no plan for getting a job. One day, Fielding hikes the Appalachian Trail, lets Gonker off his leash, and Gonker goes missing chasing a fox. His parents create a plan and strategy to find Gonker, and, because of this, the family bonds together.
Episode 5, Season 3 of THE CHOSEN is a powerful, astonishing episode where people are amazed by Jesus’ teaching, wisdom and miraculous powers. After answering questions from His disciples about the Kingdom of God in Simon Peter’s home, Jairus comes to Jesus to heal his young daughter, who’s on her deathbed. Along the way, a sick woman who’s been declared unclean by the religious leaders desperately approaches Jesus for healing. What happens next astonishes everyone, including Jesus.
MISSING is a thriller about an 18-year-old girl in Los Angeles who tries to find her missing mother who disappeared in Columbia while vacationing with her boyfriend. The movie starts with June’s widowed mother, Grace, and her boyfriend, Kevin, catching the plane for Columbia. June and her mother are having relationship problems, but June agrees to pick them up at the airport when they return. However, they don’t show. So, June reaches out to the FBI at the American Embassy and to a local tourist guide. Unexpected twists follow, one of which leads June to question everything she knows about her mother.
THE PALE BLUE EYE is a melancholy mystery set in 1830. A widowed, retired police detective named Landor teams up with a young Edgar Allan Poe to solve a murder with a macabre twist at West Point. They investigate the hanging of a cadet whose heart was cut out after his corpse was sent to the morgue. During their investigation, the two men find that the murder and mutilation may be related to a secret satanic ritual being performed in the nearby icehouse.
M3GAN is a science fiction thriller about a brilliant female robotics engineer who gives an advanced robot doll to her orphaned niece. For most of her life, Allison has been focused on her career, working on robot toys for a toy manufacturer. So, she has trouble relating to her niece, Cady, whose parents were killed in a car wreck during a family ski trip. Allison and Cady’s relationship changes for the better when Allison finishes a life-sized robot doll called Megan for Cady. Things go wrong when the doll starts to have a dangerous mind of its own.
PLANE is a riveting thriller starring Gerard Butler as airline pilot Capt. Brodie Torrence. Brodie is making a routine flight to Tokyo on New Year’s Eve, with only 14 passengers. A storm unexpectedly takes out the plane’s electronics, forcing Brodie to crash land the plane on a remote island in the Philippines. With little hope of rescue from the outside world, Brodie must lead his small group of passengers to safety. However, he realizes they’ve landed on an ungoverned island with foreign pirates who could threaten everyone’s life. To add to the chaos, one of the passengers is a convicted criminal.
THE BOSS BABY: CHRISTMAS BONUS is an animated comedy special on Netflix based on THE BOSS BABY series. Tim Templeton tells his children a story about introducing his brother, Ted, the Boss Baby, to the family’s Christmas traditions when they were children. While the Templetons carry out their family traditions on Christmas Eve, the Boss Baby accidentally switches places with one of Santa’s elves and goes to the North Pole. The Boss Baby causes trouble with Santa’s elves but must find his Christmas spirit to save Christmas and get back to his family.
The opening scenes of LEFT BEHIND: RISE OF THE ANTICHRIST display the fear, panic and unnatural disasters that result from the sudden, mysterious disappearance of millions of people across the globe. Network news anchor Buck Williams not only reports the resulting stories but uses his investigative skills to get to the truth. Is it aliens, some kind of STAR TREK technology, or a hoax. Meanwhile, airline pilot Rayford Steele is at home with his daughter Chloe as they grieve the disappearances of Rayford's wife and son. Steele turns to the church for answers. The characters will journey to a moment of decision about God’s role in these events and in their lives going forward.
ROALD DAHL’S MATILDA THE MUSICAL is based on the Broadway musical of children’s author Roald Dahl’s children’s book, MATILDA. Matilda is a highly intelligent 10-year-old bookworm whose obnoxious parents are too busy for her. They send her away to a highly oppressive private school that’s run like a prison by Agatha Trunchbull, the mean headmistress. Agatha treats the schoolchildren very harshly, so Matilda leads a revolt among the students. She finds support form a kindly teacher named Miss Honey.
Set in 1950s London, LIVING is a drama starring Bill Nighy as a stoic civil servant in the Public Works Department named Williams. Williams discovers he has a fatal illness and decides to take some time off from work for the first time in his life. Williams starts spending time with a former colleague named Margaret. Margaret is the exact opposite of Williams. She’s passionate about living her life with vigor and joy. Margaret inspires Williams to live life to the fullest and do something more meaningful with his life.
“Physician, Heal Yourself” is Episode Three of Season Three of THE CHOSEN. Streaming on VidAngel, it follows Jesus as He returns home to Nazareth on the eve of Rosh Hashana. The next day, Mary and Jesus join the town’s holiday festivities before Jesus gives a sermon at the evening service. In response to His claim to be the Messiah, the people drag him out of the town and try to kill Him in accordance with the Law. However, Jesus walks through the crowd and away from Nazareth.
A CHRISTMAS… PRESENT is a family centered Christmas movie on the Great American Family Channel about a busy family that finally realizes what’s most important in life. Maggie Larson is driving herself hard trying to plan the perfect Christmas for her family. However, demanding jobs and busy teenagers keep getting in the way. Maggie’s brother, Paul, and his daughter, who are dealing with the recent death of Paul’s wife, are the only ones who understand what’s most important. Will everyone be able to put their schedules and differences aside to truly come together?
MY FATHER’S DRAGON is a wonderfully animated adventure on Netflix for all ages. The story follows a young boy named Elmer as he embarks on a quest to bring his family out of poverty. After meeting and freeing the young dragon Boris, the two go on a quest on Wild Island to save the animals from drowning and to help Elmer’s family. However, where many characters think they have all the answers, they find out that they don’t always have the best answers to all problems. Ultimately, Elmer learns that the best he can do to help his situation is to first accept his reality for what it is.
Chapter 1 of THE WINGFEATHER SAGA, “Leeli & the Sea Dragon Song,” is a new animated series on VidAngel based on Andrew Peterson’s children’s series of the same name. The first chapter follows the Igiby children as the town prepares to celebrate Dragon Day. This is the one day of the year that the Fang, a ruling race of lizard-like creatures repelled by anything good, allows the people to celebrate freely. Leeli and her two older brothers, Tink and Janner, must stick together after they stumble into trouble with a mean Fang character.
AN ANGELIC CHRISTMAS is an endearing family drama on Pure Flix about loss, grief, forgiveness, and transformative change, with God’s help. In the story, a forgetful angel in the making named Celest helps a widowed mother, Samantha, and her two daughters, Delaney and Lauren, move to and transform a surprisingly somber town. The family is grieving the recent loss of their husband and father, who was active in the U.S. Navy. They encounter the wealthy town Scrooge, who rebuffs their overtures of friendship and tries to stop them from putting together an impromptu Christmas Eve celebration at the local town center.
REINDEER IN HERE is a CBS Christmas special streaming on Paramount+. Blizzard, or Blizz, is a reindeer who doesn’t seem to fit. His inventions don’t seem to work, his gifts are overlooked, and his antlers are askew. However, when Santa’s snowglobe, which he uses to access the wishes of the world’s children, is stolen, Blizz jumps in to save the day. Along the way he meets Theo, a young boy also has a hard time fitting in with others. Together they set out to discover the mystery of the missing snowglobe and return it to Santa so that Santa’s Christmas Eve trip can proceed as usual.
The fifth season of YELLOWSTONE opens strong with John Dutton, the family patriarch, becoming Montana Governor. John speaks for an older, more traditional America with patriotic overtones and state-centric zeal. Family loyalties come to the fore, and John’s son, Kayce, must face a heartbreaking development. Meanwhile, John orders his other two children, Beth and Jamie, to stop bickering. Also, Beth finally demonstrates some real personal growth in a heartfelt apology to Rip for her past actions.
SCROOGE: A CHRISTMAS CAROL is an animated musical version on Netflix of Charles Dickens’ classic novel. The movie follows Scrooge and his dog Prudence as they journey through time to see how Scrooge’s past affects his relationships in the present and how he should change to be better for the future. Over the course of watching Scrooge’s journey, the viewer is treated to colorful, engaging musical numbers. The movie is based on the 1970 musical SCROOGE, starring Albert Finney as the miser who’s visited by three spirits.
GOOD NIGHT OPPY is a documentary about two computerized Mars rovers that NASA launched in 2003. If this NASA mission had merely fulfilled its goal of 90 days of data collection from the Red Planet, the mission would have been a resounding success. However, Spirit ran for almost six years, and Opportunity lasted an astounding 15 years, outlasting many of the humans who oversaw the mission at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California.
FALLING FOR CHRISTMAS is a romantic comedy on Netflix. Spoiled hotel heiress Sierra Belmont has just been offered a managing position at her father’s expensive ski resort in Aspen. Sierra has all the room service, couture clothing and personal assistants a girl could ever want. To top it all off, her influencer boyfriend, Tad, just became her influencer fiancé! Things change when Sierra and Tad get separated after a skiing accident, and Sierra wakes up with complete memory loss, not even knowing her name. Ironically, she ends up at the North Star Lodge, which is losing guests to her father’s ski lodge. Will someone come looking for Sierra? Can she survive outside her pampered lifestyle?
MOONRISE is a TV movie on Pure Flix. Will Brown is a successful country singer, but when his wife dies, he feels lost. Will and his children are each dealing with their grief in different ways. His daughter, Ellie, would love to ride her mother’s horse, but the horse has become wild and uncontrollable. Ellie hires a horse trainer named Sam, short for Samantha, who will stay with the family for two weeks. Will isn’t happy about this but allows it. Sam turns out to be a blessing, bringing warmth and love. When she confronts Will on dealing with his daughter, Will wonders if Sam should leave. Can Sam help heal this grieving family?
THE GIFT OF PEACE, a drama on Hallmark Movies & Mysteries, is about the true meaning of Christmas. It focuses on Traci and Michael’s journey of grief at Christmas. The movie begins with Traci working on her Christmas painting that is her first Christmas painting since her husband, Greg’s, passing two years ago. Joyce, her best friend and manager, suggests Traci join a grief support group at Grace Community Church to help her in her grief journey. While out visiting the community Christmas market, she runs into a widower named Michael. Traci tries going to the grief support group, but she’s lost her faith after her husband’s death. So, when the group begins to pray, she walks out. Will Traci regain her faith?
WILDCAT is a documentary about British soldier Harry Turner. Harry is sent to war in Afghanistan at the age of 18, but is medically discharged with PTSD. Traveling to South America to try and sort things out, Harry meets Samantha Zwicker, a wildlife preservationist. By taking care of a young ocelot, to prepare it to return to the wild, Harry realizes that the world isn’t so bad after all. Tragedy occurs when the ocelot is killed by a poacher’s trap. Then, another baby ocelot, Keanu, is brought into the wildlife compound. Might Keanu be the key to Harry’s recovery?
WHITNEY HOUSTON: I WANNA DANCE WITH SOMEBODY is a musical biopic of the late pop singer. It focuses on her personal and professional triumphs, trials and tribulations. As a teenager, Whitney sings in church and as backup for her mother’s nightclub act. However, it comes time for Whitney to take center stage. Clive Davis, a famous record producer, signs Whitney to produce records, and they create the biggest hits for a black female pop star. Whitney’s personal life gets in the way, when she and her husband start fighting and abusing alcohol, cocaine and pills.
CAUSEWAY is a gritty drama starring Jennifer Lawrence as Lynsey, an American soldier who’s returned home to New Orleans from a tour in Afghanistan after a traumatic brain injury. The movie follows Lynsey as she tries to regain control of her life and cope with PTSD and depression because of her injury. Lynsey starts her journey in a rehab facility. From there, she’s forced to return to her childhood home, where she lives with her alcoholic single mother. She befriends James, a mechanic who went to a nearby high school. James also lives with PTSD and depression after a car wreck claimed his leg, his fiancé and her son. Lynsey and James share their struggles over cigarettes and beer.
In CHRISTMAS WITH YOU, a romantic comedy on Netflix, aging pop star Angelina feels lost because her mother died on Christmas. Her record label is breathing down her neck to write a hit Christmas song to revive her sagging career. A 14-year-old girl posts a video explaining how one of Angelina’s songs inspired her when her mother died. So, Angelina decides to show up and surprise her. However, a snowstorm hits, forcing her and her quirky assistant to stay the night. Angelina becomes attracted to the girl’s father. She finally finds the inspiration to write and realizes what true success looks like.
THE CHOSEN SEASON 3: EPISODE 1 & 2 is a theatrical release of the first two episodes of Season 3 of the crowd-funded show about the life of Jesus Christ. The first episode, “Homecoming,” begins with Christ’s Sermon on the Mount. The sermon brings more followers to the truth but also reveals more enemies of Jesus and his disciples. After Jesus finishes, the disciples travel home and reunite with family while Andrew visits John the Baptist in Prison. The theatrical experience flows straight into episode two, “Two by Two.” In this episode, the disciples are anticipating how Jesus will proceed with His ministry as the Romans and the Pharisees grow more suspicious.
5000 BLANKETS is a moving, inspiring drama about a woman and her son who start a movement that inspires a city. Cyndi loves her husband, Bobby, very much, but Bobby deals with mental health issues. One day, he suffers a breakdown and goes missing. Cyndi and her son, Phillip, look for Bobby throughout the town and in the areas where homeless people congregate. One day, while talking to a homeless woman, Cyndi realizes she and others like her need blankets to keep them warm. So, she and Phillip start handing out blankets to homeless and needy people.
FATHER STU: REBORN stars Mark Wahlberg as a rough man with a hard life. Stu has been so beaten up in the boxing ring that his doctor tells him he must stop boxing or die. So, he moves to Hollywood and gets a job as a butcher while pursuing acting. At his grocery store, Stu meets Carmen, a beautiful woman. Carmen tells Stu she will only see him if he comes to church and helps her teach Sunday School. One night, after drinking too much, Stu gets on a motorcycle and is hit by a car. Will Stu change his ways and follow God?
GLASS ONION is a sequel to KNIVES OUT, following the famous Southern detective, Benoit Blanc (Daniel Craig) as he searches for a new case. When a mysterious wooden puzzle box shows up on his doorstep, Blanc finds an invitation to a party and travels to Greece. The exclusive party is a murder mystery party at the home of billionaire Miles Bron. Blanc, along with an eclectic group of characters arrive at the island to take part in Bron’s meticulously planned murder mystery. However, upon his arrival Blanc learns that he was never invited to the party. Bron welcomes him nonetheless, and the mystery unfolds.
SHE SAID follows New York Times reporters Megan Twohey and Jodi Kantor as they try to expose Hollywood mogul Harvey Weinstein for his years of sexual abuse of women. Both Megan and Jodi must balance their jobs at the Times with their lives as wives and mothers. The movie shows the lengths they must go, traveling across seas, tracking down people, constant phone calls, and late nights with little sleep, to expose Weinstein’s alleged crimes. Their efforts lead to the start of the Me Too Movement against sexual harassment.
Disney’s Tron is a philosophical science fiction masterpiece, which celebrates its 40th anniversary this year. Kevin Flynn is the brightest computer programmer and hacker at ENCOM, a major technology and virtuality developer. However, his creative efforts in the form of numerous programs and games are frustrated when a man named Dillinger pirates his ideas and designs, takes credit for Flynn’s work, uses it to rise in the company ranks and later fires Flynn when he finds him digging into the intellectual theft. Through a series of technological events, Flynn enters the company’s virtual game world in a search for the truth and can only survive and achieve his goal by joining forces with a heroic security program, Tron.
IT’S CHRISTMAS AGAIN is a faith-filled musical that centers on the life of Jake Young, a high-schooler who has a life-changing experience on Christmas Eve. So far, nothing about the Christmas holiday is going right for Jake. His girlfriend can’t come on his family ski trip, and his brother breaks his leg as they’re leaving, so his family is forced to cancel the trip. Jake blames his brother and goes to find his girlfriend. However, after a skateboarding accident, Jake wakes up as a shepherd in the town of Bethlehem on the night of Jesus Christ’s birth. As he learns the true meaning of Christmas, his perspective and attitude changes towards the holiday season, his family and Jesus.
DOLLY PARTON’S MOUNTAIN MAGIC CHRISTMAS on NBC-TV is like a show within a movie. When it starts to snow, Dolly Parton is inspired and calls her partner, Sam Haskell, to tell him she has an idea. The idea is to produce a beautiful Christmas special in just a few weeks. Happily, a big network is willing to pick up the special because the network executive says Dolly brings positive inspirational content in a bleak world. Dolly and Sam have to produce this live special with only a few weeks to prepare. Will Dolly be able to come up with the lyrics and make this special truly special?
In THE SANTA CLAUSES: Chapter Two, Scott, the reigning Santa Clause, realizes he can’t keep ignoring his problems, especially his loss of magic and his diminishing Christmas spirit. Scott loves being Santa so much that it's not easy to let go, even when he knows retirement is the best option for him, his family and the world’s children. Will Scott be able to go through with retirement? Will he even be able to find someone who wants to be Santa?
GUILLERMO DEL TORO’S PINOCCHIO, on Netflix, contains familiar characters, but offers a new take on the classic story. Set during Benito Mussolini’s reign in Italy, Geppetto constructs a wooden boy after the war kills his son, Carlo. Geppetto wakes up and discovers Pinocchio has come to life after a woodland sprite visits. In his grief, Geppetto believes Pinocchio will never replace Carlo. Naive to the outside world’s dangers, Pinocchio is captured by an evil circus manager trying to profit off him. Desiring to prove his worth to Geppetto, Pinocchio embarks on a journey with the circus across Italy.
DEVOTION tells the true story of Jesse Brown, the first African American Navy fighter pilot, who fought in the Korean War. Transferred to a new base, Jesse meets Lieutenant Tom Hudner, a white fighter pilot who’ll be his partner. All his adult life, Jesse has heard he isn’t going to make it as an aviator, because of his skin color. Jesse perseveres in the midst of adversity to become an incredibly talented aviator. When he and Tom start fighting in the Korean War, the jeopardy skyrockets. Will Jesse make it back safely to his family?
SPIRITED is a musical fantasy getting a limited theatrical release. Based on A CHRISTMAS CAROL by Dickens, it stars Will Ferrell as “the Ghost of Christmas Present.” He convinces his boss, Jacob Marley, that Clint Briggs, an “unredeemable,” unscrupulous media consultant played by Ryan Reynolds, should be given a chance to redeem his life for the better. When it’s time for three spirits to visit him, Clint turns the tables on the Ghost of Christmas Present. As a result, Christmas Present starts re-examining his own past, present and future. Meanwhile, Clint must stop his niece from spreading gossip that will endanger a classmate’s life.
THE SON stars Hugh Jackman as Peter, an upper-class executive in New York whose adultery and abandonment of his first wife has traumatized their teenage son, Nicholas. When his ex-wife discovers that Nicholas has been skipping school for a month, the boy tells her he wants to live with his father. Peter takes the boy even though his new wife has just had a baby. Peter finds out Nicholas has been cutting himself. After a few weeks, Nicholas seems to be thriving living with his father. But, has Nicholas recovered from the trauma of his father abandoning his mother?
DESTINED AT CHRISTMAS is a Christmas romance movie about two people who collide in the chaos of the Christmas shopping season and find they have an undeniable spark. However, Kim and Theo must suddenly part ways before exchanging phone numbers or last names. Both hold out hope of finding each other through the stories they shared on the night they met. Meanwhile, Kim’s ex-boyfriend has re-entered her life, and Theo’s family is trying to set him up with someone. Will Kim and Theo keep fighting to find each other amidst the busy season? Or, will they give up hope and settle for what’s in front of them?
In ENOLA HOLMES 2 on Netflix, Sherlock Homes’ younger sister takes a missing persons case, her first as a detective. Bessie, a young girl working in a matchstick factory, hires Enola to search for a young missing woman working in the factory, who’s taken Bessie under her wing. Enola finds out the case has to do with some shady activities by the factory owner. She also learns that her case is related to a case that’s vexing her brother, Sherlock. The stakes are raised when Enola is framed for the murder of another girl working at the factory.
DISENCHANTED is a sequel on Disney Plus to the 2007 theatrical movie ENCHANTED. Fifteen years later, Giselle and Robert have a new baby and an angsty teenager, Morgan. Giselle is no longer happy in Manhattan. She believes her family will find happiness in a castle themed house in the suburbs. However, still no one is happy. When Giselle is rejected by the local PTA, she takes a magic wand gift and makes a desperate wish to live in a fairytale. Her wish inadvertently turns the lives of her family upside down and threatens the existence of Andalusia, the fairytale world.
A CHRISTMAS STORY CHRISTMAS is a sequel to the 1983 Christmas classic A CHRISTMAS STORY. Streaming on Netflix, it shows a grown-up Ralphie who has to plan a wonderful Christmas for his family just like his old man used to do for him and his brother. Ralph’s father has suddenly died a week before Christmas. So, Ralph takes his wife and two children to visit his mother for Christmas. Ralph decides he wants to create the perfect Christmas for his family, to honor his father’s memory. The question is, Does he have what it takes to give his family a Christmas to remember?
BLOOD AND TREASURE: Season Two is an exciting series on Paramount Plus. It starts with an attack on the Vatican to capture a banner called “The Soul of Genghis Khan.” The group that’s attacking are followers of the Great Khan in the current day, who’s trying to conquer the world. The heroes, Danny, Lexi and Father Chuck, must try to get the banner before the Great Khan does. In every episode, as they’re about to retrieve the banner, the Great Khan sends his ninjas, who kill their informants and frustrate their plans.
In THE SANTA CLAUSES miniseries on Disney+, Tim Allen returns as the beloved Santa Claus from THE SANTA CLAUSE movies. Chapter One: “Good to Ho” begins with Scott Calvin notic-ing that 28 years have gone by with him as Santa and finally acknowledging it might be in his en-tire family’s best interest for him to retire. Scott loves the North Pole and his role as Santa, but he realizes the rest of his family feels differently. Also, the world has changed drastically since Scott became Santa, and children are starting to forget Santa. Will Scott actually retire? What’s going to happen to Santa?
JOHNNY CASH: THE REDEMPTION OF AN AMERICAN ICON is a documentary getting a brief theatrical release. It tells how the influential country and folk music singer, songwriter lost his way after becoming addicted to amphetamines, became estranged from his wife and family, and started an affair with country singer June Carter. His crisis of faith reached a lowpoint in 1967 after his wife divorced him. However, he returned to Jesus and became a strong spokesman for the Gospel. Interviews with several music stars, Johnny’s sister and one of his sons, and two pastors complete the movie’s portrayal of Johnny Cash.
NORM GEISLER: NOT QUALIFIED is a 2021 documentary showing around the country about one of the top Christian apologists and scholars in the last two centuries. Norm Geisler wrote more than 100 books defending the Christian faith and the Bible. He became a world-renowned mentor and source of knowledge and wisdom for many people. The movie includes clips of him teaching and of the Christian leaders discussing his influence. It also tells the story of a preacher’s daughter who lost her faith then found it again by interacting with Norman Geisler’s teachings and ministry.
RESISTANCE: 1942 is a well-crafted, captivating story of faith and perseverance set in Nazi-occupied France. Jacques is a French pastor using a radio to give messages of hope to the Resistance. He and his teenage daughter, Juliet, are hiding in an attic from the Nazis with several people, including a Jewish couple. However, the Nazis discover their hiding place, and they’re forced to run. A wealthy banker protects them at his villa, where they pose as his servants. Pastor Jacques continues to broadcast from the villa. However, the Germans are closing in, and everyone’s life is on the line. Tensions rise when the new commandant joins them for dinner, unannounced.
A CHANCE ENOCUNTER is a quirky, sweet romantic drama. Hal goes to Taormina, Italy to inspire him to write poetry. He meets a famous folk singer in the town piazza, where she’s playing her guitar. Josie and Hal connect and encourage each other to write. Josie invites Hal to spend the week at her very large villa so they can focus on writing together, like a writers’ retreat. They build a deeper connection through conversation, though Josie reminds Hal she already has a boyfriend. However, Hal starts having deeper feelings for Josie. Eventually, Josie must decide if she’ll continue with her current rocky relationship or take a chance on Hal.
Airing on the Great American Family Channel, CATERING CHRISTMAS tells a story about how family is what matters most. Carson, a traveling event photographer, is visiting his Aunt Jean for their family foundation’s annual Christmas gala. Molly is a new caterer trying to get her new catering business off the ground. When Molly comes to Aunt Jean’s home to audition, Carson unexpectedly becomes her unofficial sous chef when Molly enlists his assistance. Aunt Jean wants them to work together on the Gala’s menu. Love blossoms, but Carson is reluctant to become more involved with his family’s foundation. Molly helps Carson see, however, what the family foundation means to the town.
BLUEY: Season One is an episodic animated children’s show now showing on Disney Plus. It depicts an Australian cattle puppy’s life and adventures with her family and friends. Viewers experience an authentic depiction of young children as Bluey learns to share with her sister and other valuable lessons. In most of the episodes, Bluey goes too far in playing games or bossing people around, and has to be admonished gently by her sister, friends or parents. Everything works out all right in the end, however.
AN UNLIKELY ANGEL enters at a monumental moment in the life of Janie, a driven, but pregnant creative executive at a large toy company headquartered in New York City. Janie is making the biggest pitch of her career when her water breaks, ending the meeting. So, the biggest pitch of her career could turn out to be the biggest hitch. She prayed just before the meeting, and, as always, God answers prayer, even when the prayer is only two words. As often is the case, the answer Janie gets isn’t quite what she expected.
“Out of Bounds,” the second episode of MIGHTY DUCKS: GAME CHANGERS Season Two on Disney Plus, shows the Mighty Ducks buckle under the weight of high expectations. On their second day at the summer hockey camp, the Ducks get a full taste of the “rise and grind” lifestyle. Their coach demands the camp leader loosen his stringent work program. However, a frustrated Duck player runs off campus without alerting his peers. The team searches for him before he quits for good.
DOGS IN SPACE: Season Two on Netflix follows Stella as she becomes the Captain of Starship Pluto. The former Captain, nicknamed Garbage, struggles to transition to crew member, learning to admit to his mistakes and to supporting Stella in his old position. Stella, Garbage and the crew learn to work together and sort out their differences. The genetically enhanced dogs are travelling the galaxy in search of a new home for humanity. They undergo various adventures along the way. Meanwhile, Captain Stella becomes more and more confident in her abilities to lead the team and make quick decisions in life-or-death situations.
STAR-CROSSED ROMANCE is an engaging, funny romantic comedy on UPtv. Piper is a single mother and Denver’s prestigious sportscaster. However, she prioritizes independence to the detriment of herself and her son. Called into her son’s school because he was fighting with a female student, she meets the girl’s single father, Erik. Sparks flyover whose child is at fault. The principal requires them to give their children more attention. He forces them to work together to stage the school play, a Steampunk version of Shakespeare’s ROMEO AND JULIET.
TICKET TO PARADISE is a romantic comedy starring George Clooney and Julia Roberts as a middle-aged divorced couple, David and Georgia. They both love their daughter, Lily, but each time they meet, the barbs start flying. The couple is upset when their daughter, Lily, on vacation in Bali, suddenly decides to forego her law career and marry a young man on the island. Though the young man runs his family’s lucrative seaweed farm, Georgia and David scheme to stop their daughter’s upcoming nuptials. Will they go too far?
BLACK ADAM stars Dwayne Johnson in the title role. Thousands of years ago, a council of wizards gave Teth Adam mighty powers to stop an evil king from obtaining demonic magic and oppressing the people of Kahndaq. However, Adam used his powers for revenge, so the council imprisoned him. Now, 5,000 years later, he’s been freed, but the Justice Society considers him a threat to world peace and stability. Adam refuses to surrender to four superheroes from the Society, led by Hawkman and Dr. Fate. However, when a criminal tries to obtain the crown that would have given the ancient evil king demonic powers, Adam joins the superheroes to stop him.
The last episode to Season One of THE LORD OF THE RINGS: THE RINGS OF POWER concludes three of Season One’s major plots. In one, the blind Queen Regent returns home to Númenor, only to find out her father, the elderly King, has died. In the second, Nori and the three hobbits following the Stranger try to protect him from three demonic characters. Finally, the master elven blacksmith uses the mithril gem to forge three magical rings that will stop the elves from dying. As the process continues, Galadriel grows suspicious that something’s not right.
Streaming on Hulu, ROSALINE is a comical take on Shakespeare’s ROMEO AND JULIET. When Rosaline’s cousin, Juliet, steals Romeo’s heart, Rosaline does everything she can to break them up in ROSALINE. Rosaline misses her rendezvous with Romeo at the masquerade ball. Romeo then sees Juliet and falls in love. Distressed, Rosaline decides to tell Juliet that Romeo’s not a good guy and tries to persuade her against loving Romeo. Will Romeo still fall for Juliet even though Rosaline is misguiding her? Will Rosaline remain heartbroken?
Part II of MARVEL & DC’s WAR ON GOD is a Christian documentary streaming on Vimeo. The movie discusses the occult roots of Marvel Comics’ DR. STRANGE and SCARLET WITCH series, including the recent movie and TV versions. It also connects them to Aleister Crowley, the perverted 20th Century occultist, who promoted sorcery, orgies, homosexuality, and other evil things. Finally, it notes that writer Steve Engelhart, himself an occultist, inserted an increased amount of Anti-Christian, occult content in DOCTOR STRANGE and SCARLET WITCH in 1973 to 1976 and 1985.
Set in 1955, TILL is based on a true story. Emmett Till’s mother, Mamie, has misgivings about Emmett traveling to Mississippi in August 1955 with Emmett’s uncle, a part-time preacher, to visit Emmett’s cousins. Emmett is a gregarious, outgoing 14-year-old and a natty dresser. Mamie repeatedly warns Emmett about how to act in front of white people in Mississippi. However, Emmett makes the mistake of complimenting a white woman and whistling at her. The woman’s husband and half-brother kidnap Emmett at gunpoint, and his body shows up dead in the local river. Mamie heroically seeks justice for her son.
UMMA is a PG-13 ghost story available on Amazon Prime. Korean immigrant Amanda lives a secluded life with her daughter on a remote farm. Amanda keeps bees, sells honey and lives without modern technology, including electricity. She’s afraid of electricity, to the point that thunderstorms and lightning are traumatic. When her uncle arrives with her mother’s ashes and prized possessions, Amanda must confront the demons in her past and present. She must protect herself and her daughter from repeating history and falling prey to the vengeful spirit of her abusive “umma,” or mother.
THE GOOD HOUSE follows the life of a New England realtor named Hildy Good, who begins to unravel when she reignites a romantic flame with a past love. Based on a book by Ann Leary, THE GOOD HOUSE takes a dive into the life of an alcoholic and how it affects everyone around them. Despite Hildy’s efforts to stay sober, circumstances seem to drag her back into her addiction. Will Hildy recognize her problem and accept the help of those who support her? Or, will she continue to hurt everyone around her?
PAUL’S PROMISE tells the story of a white fireman’s spiritual and social transformation, during the racial unrest of the 1960s, in the face of a difficult past. After getting terminal cancer, an outspoken widow named Minnie desires her son, Paul, will come to know the Lord. She asks him to read her personal prayer list in church. Paul at first finds her request irksome and annoying. However, his mother’s mortality, Paul’s deep need for a positive father figure, and his desire to confront the racial turmoil around him forces Paul to have a change of heart.
AMSTERDAM is a mystery about two World War I veterans and a nurse who uncover a plot in 1933 by rich businessmen to stage a fascist coup against President Roosevelt. Two World War I veterans in New York, a black lawyer named Harold, and a white physician named Burt, reunite with their wartime nurse, Valerie, to stop the plot. The businessmen want a general named Dillenbeck, who’s admired by veterans across the country, to lead a fascist march on Washington to oust Roosevelt. Dillenbeck agrees to speak at Burt and Harold’s upcoming army reunion to smoke out the plotters.
FIRST RESPONDERS weaves together the stories of several different responders. As the movie develops, the audience sees the pain and suffering of first responders. First, Mark and his firefighter comrades go to a tremendous house fire and rescue a girl, who tells them her brother’s still inside. Mark goes to the little brother and finds out he’s been burned to death. This breaks Mark’s heart and causes advanced PTSD. Meanwhile, a policewoman is shot when she pulls over a car. Her husband, an ambulance driver, is devastated, as is Mark’s wife the policewoman’s best friend.
NOTHING IS IMPOSSIBLE is a sports drama streaming on Pure Flix. It follows former NBA prospect Scott Beck, who’s 39 years old and works as a janitor at his former high school. Beck learns that his ex-girlfriend now owns her father’s professional basketball team, the Silver Knights, and is holding open tryouts to play professional basketball. Despite his age, Beck takes a leap of faith and tries out for the team. However, a malicious owner and fear of failure are in Beck’s way. After a series of setbacks, Beck finds himself back where he started. Or, so he thinks. Will he trust in God’s plan or his own?
THE GREATEST BEER RUN EVER is based on the true story of one man’s journey from New York City to the heart of the Vietnam War in 1967 to bring beer to his childhood friends. “Chickie” Donohue wants to feel purpose in his life and in the war. He decides to support those serving overseas by offering them a taste of home. However, Donohue realizes that the media portrayal of the war, his support for American leadership and the chaos of reality don’t line up at all. Through a series of adventures and misadventures, Donohue comes home with a new perspective.
INSTANT DREAM HOME: Episode 1.2: “Schoolhouse Rock” follows a homeschool family of two parents with five children who are the youth pastors of a church. Sarah and Eric need more space and organization to their house. So, the INSTANT DREAM HOME team comes in unexpectedly. Not knowing that their house is being transformed, the family goes to swim at Sarah’s brother’s house. The Instant Dream team must fix the landscaping, paint, re-do the kitchen, and more, including add an extra room and put a prebuilt schoolhouse in the back yard. Will they be able to accomplish everything in 12 hours, before the family returns from their pool party?
THE MIGHTY DUCKS: GAME CHANGERS is a Disney+ sports series based on the 1990s film franchise of the same name. “Ice Breaker,” the premiere episode of GAME CHANGERS Season Two, transfers the junior hockey team into an intense summer training camp. After defeating their biggest foes in Season One, the Mighty Ducks face a terrible snag when their Ice Palace training rink is condemned. With nowhere to practice, the team accepts an invite to EPIC, an elite California training camp for the best players across the country. The camp director, however, pits the Ducks against his camp’s fiercest players. Can the Ducks maintain their team spirit?
Episode Six of THE LORD OF THE RINGS: THE RINGS OF POWER on Amazon Prime kicks things up a few notches. The humans of the Southlands are getting ready to defend themselves from the Orc army led by Adar, one of the elves corrupted and deformed by an imprisoned demonic character. Meanwhile, the ships from Númenor bearing 500 troops are reaching the western shores of Middle Earth. Once there, they will ride over the mountains and into the valley of the Southlands. The humans have some surprises in store for Adar’s army, but Adar has a couple tricks up his sleeve. An exciting battle follows.
The first two episodes of SHE-HULK: ATTORNEY AT LAW set a comical tone for the series. Jennifer Walters, an up and coming deputy district attorney, is on a road trip with her cousin, Bruce Banner, when a car wreck results in Bruce’s Hulk blood entering Jennifer’s own bloodstream. Bruce tries to help her adjust to her new Hulk superpowers, but Jennifer resists. She’s anxious to get back to her legal career and hide her superpowers. This turns out to be much easier said than done.
In the sixth episode of STAR TREK: STRANGE NEW WORLDS, the Enterprise rescues an alien boy appointed the “First Servant,” his father Gamal, and Alora, a diplomat. Alora is also Captain Pike’s former girlfriend. Pike agrees to return the alien trio to Majalis, a highly advanced alien planet. Gamal fakes his son’s death to keep him from returning to the planet, but he’s thwarted. The boy returns to Majalis with Pike and Alora for an “ascension ceremony.” Pike is allowed to witness the ceremony, which turns out to be human sacrifice to a mechanical device.
MOTHER TERESA: NO GREATER LOVE is a Fathom Events documentary. It showcases Catholic charities for “the poorest of the poor” started and inspired by Mother Teresa. Interspersed with visits to some of these charities around the world is a narrative about Mother Teresa’s life. The narrative includes brief dramatic reconstructions of her life without dialogue, footage of Mother Teresa helping needy people, and footage of her speaking about her faith and charity work. Eventually, she became a leading advocate for unborn babies.
THE CLUE TO LOVE is a romantic drama airing on UPtv about a big town journalist on assignment in a small town. Audrey is a Chicago journalist who’s on assignment in a small town called Hope Cover. There, she meets a handsome man named Morgan who’s taking over the local paper from his father. Audrey’s assignment is to write about Morgan’s newspaper, which has won a Pulitzer Prize. Morgan is the Editor-in-Chief, but he’s got an attitude toward Audrey. Will Audrey be able to get a great story about this town? When Audrey starts falling for Morgan, will he be receptive to Audrey even though she’s much different than he is?
RAILWAY CHILDREN adopts the thematic elements of a famous story from the early 1900s, which was a novel and a 1970 movie, to the middle of World War II. The movie opens with the Germans bombing the industrial city of Manchester. One mother, whose husband went off to war and who works at a bomb-making factory, must put her three children, Lily, Pattie and Ted, on a train to a small English village. The three children get involved with protecting a black American soldier who’s gone AWOL. Meanwhile, military police are searching the whole town for the soldier.
BREAKING is based on the true story of Marine Veteran Brian Brown-Easley who’s desperate for money. He enters a bank, declares he has a bomb, and holds hostage two bank employees. Brian struggles with mental health and reintegration as a civilian. The Veteran Affairs failed to provide the services he needs. He claims the VA wrongly used his benefits to pay for a college loan Brian denies he owes. Brian promises to let the hostages go if Veteran Affairs gives him what they owe him. The law enforcement officials are concerned with removing the threat. However, one detective and fellow Marine veteran tries to help Brian.
INSTANT DREAM HOME: “Four Years in One Day” shows a team of 200 people completing the entire inside and exterior of a 2000-square-foot house in 12 hours. They’re doing the project for a Christian couple, Scott and Tami, who started a church and have a ministry for the poor in Atlanta. Led by the series host, Danielle Brooks, the team is also going to landscape the front and back yard. The inside of the house has no flooring. So, before the team can remodel the inside and insert furniture, cabinets or appliances, it must finish the flooring.
“Spock Amok,” the fifth episode of STAR TREK: STRANGE NEW WORLDS on Paramount Plus, has Spock torn between pursuing his Starfleet career or making his fiancé T’Pring happy. Moreover, Spock’s emotional half-human side impairs his ability to wield “Vulcan Logic.” Spock convinces T’Pring there’s a way to mend their long-distance relationship. The duo performs a Vulcan telepathy ritual for better mutual understanding. However, the ritual goes haywire and causes both users to transfer their minds into the other person’s body. Meanwhile, Captain Pike needs Spock’s help convincing a strange humanoid race to join the Federation instead of the Klingons or Romulans.
The third and fourth episodes of Amazon’s THE LORD OF THE RINGS: THE RINGS OF POWER introduce the island kingdom of Númenor. Galadriel tries to convince the Queen Regent to send an army to fight Sauron. However, the people in her kingdom have withdrawn all contact with the elves and are suspicious of Galadriel. Meanwhile, the stranger who fell to Middle Earth befriends the Hobbit girl, Nori. Finally, the black elf is captured by the orcs and meets their leader, a man calling himself Adar.
The first three episodes of STAR WARS: ANDOR, streaming on Disney Plus, tell how Capt. Andor of the STAR WARS movie ROGUE ONE gets involved with the Rebel Alliance. Andor is a thief living and working in the shadows. He travels to another planet to find his long-lost sister. However, two security guards accost him in an alley. During the fight, he accidentally kills one of them and then shoots the other one, a witness, dead. A young and inexperienced police inspector suspects Andor. He leads a police force to arrest him just when a spy from the Rebel Alliance is trying to recruit Andor.
RUNNING THE BASES tells about a high school baseball coach who runs afoul of the school superintendent when the coach brings the superintendent’s son to Christ. As a senior in high school, Luke Brooks discovers he has the same congenital heart defect that killed his brother. This news shatters Luke’s dreams of becoming a professional baseball catcher. However, Luke finds new life when he learns he has a talent for coaching baseball. Twenty years later, after winning nine state championships for his hometown, Luke moves his family to Texas to coach at a larger high school. Luke must rely on God when the school superintendent objects to Luke’s public expression of his Christian faith.
SEE HOW THEY RUN is a mystery comedy set in 1953 London. An alcoholic detective and his rookie female assistant investigate the murder of a Hollywood director. The murder occurred at the theater where Agatha Christie’s play THE MOUSETRAP is celebrating the first anniversary of its successful run. Scotland Yard assigns world-weary Inspector Stoppard to the murder case, but he’s annoyed when his boss appoints a rookie policewoman, Constable Stalker, to shadow him. Can Stoppard stay sober enough to find Leo’s killer before he or she kills again?
MEDIEVAL is based on the true story of 15th Century Czech warlord and religious reformer, Jan Žižka. Žižka, who defeated armies of the Teutonic Order and the Holy Roman Empire, often entering battle outnumbered but never losing a battle he led. A strategic genius, Žižka stands up for Christian faith in God and freedom as the Catholic Church justifies horrific oppression and violence. Žižka and his men are paid to kidnap Lady Katherine, the fiancée of a powerful lord. They discover Katherine is caught in a battle between European monarchs. So, Žižka and his men fight to save Katherine.
SUPERSPREADER is a documentary about a Christian worship leader who stepped up and led worship around the country during the COVID-19 Pandemic. After losing an election, Sean Feucht was trying to figure out his next steps. When the COVID-19 pandemic hit America, state and local governments told churches to shut down, or else. Sean led a movement, Let Us Worship, to take worship to the streets , so people could hear the Gospel and find peace, joy, love, and hope in Jesus Christ.
MR. MALCOLM’S LIST is a period piece set in Victorian England that conflates the plots of several Jane Austen novels. Mr. Jeremy Malcolm, a charming, rich bachelor in London, creates a list of qualities that any prospective woman he may wed must possess. Julia, one of his rejected prospects, finds out about his list. She persuades her cousin, Selina, to aid her in a revenge plot to treat Malcolm as badly as he has seemed to mistreat so many. However, Selina begins to disagree with Julia about Mr. Malcolm’s character. She develops serious feelings for him.
THE PHANTOM OF THE OPEN is a comedy based on the true story of Maurice Flitcroft, a British blue collar worker. Maurice finagles his way into the 1976 British Open Golf Championship qualification game without ever having played a round of golf. He is banned, harassed, threatened, and even arrested for his passion to play golf. He endures immense humiliation from people in the centuries-old golf establishment, but he doesn’t give up. Maurice fights his way to become the best “World’s Worst Golfer” in the history of the game.
DAVID is a televised original stage production on Sight & Sound TV about the life of King David. The live telecast follows the life of the shepherd, psalmist, warrior, and King as he seeks to accomplish God’s will. After his successes and victories on the battlefield, however, David must face his sin and failure of his own heart. Through meditation on God’s word and songs of praise, David finds his joy, rest and peace in his loving God.
CARS ON THE ROAD: Season One is a series of nine 8-10 minute animated episodes streaming on Disney Plus. Mater and Lightning McQueen decide to drive together across country to attend the wedding of Mater’s estranged sister. Along the way, they encounter a dinosaur park, a spooky mansion transformed into an inn, a circus, three cars hunting for Bigfoot, a group of vehicles trying to break the land speed, some menacing Road Warrior vehicles, and a movie set with filmmakers shooting an alien monster movie. In the last episode, Lightning finally meets Mater’s sister, Mato, and discovers the source of Mater and Mato’s sibling rivalry.
The second episode of THE LORD OF THE RINGS: THE RINGS OF POWER on Amazon Prime follows the elf Galadriel who’s still trying to defeat the darkness. She encounters a raft manned by a human, who turns out to be a king whose kingdom was destroyed by orcs. Meanwhile, the elf Elrond is sent to recruit the dwarves so the elves’ master blacksmith can build the hottest, most powerful blast furnace to forge great works. Also, a warrior elf investigates a village that’s been destroyed by an orc raiding party, and a hobbit girl meets a mysterious man who fell from the sky.
PINOCCHIO is a live-action remake of Disney’s classic 1940 animated cartoon musical about a living puppet who must prove himself morally worthy to be a real boy. The movie follows the outline of the original comedy fantasy. Geppetto, the clock maker wishes that his wooden puppet was a real boy. The Blue Fairy turns Pinocchio into a living, talking puppet and appoints Jiminy Cricket to be Pinocchio’s conscience. Then, Pinocchio proceeds to get into all kinds of trouble by giving into temptation.
LIFEMARK is a faith-based drama about an 18-year-old teenager, David, who has tried to hide the fact he’s adopted until his a biological parents try to contact him. One day, David comes home, and his parents who raised him tell him his biological mother wants to meet him. Deciding to meet his birth mother, David hears from his biological father and must decide if he would like to meet him as well. Will David be able to be open with them and listen to what they have to say about giving him up for adoption?
GIGI & NATE is a life-affirming drama about a young man whose life changes after an accident. After college-bound Nate gets water in his brain from a cliff jump, he gets meningitis and is left a quadriplegic. His family rallies together to care for him. Nate’s mother decides to get him a small service monkey named Gigi. Just as the bond between Nate and Gigi is formed, an animal activist petitions the government to ban these types of service monkeys.
BEAST is an intense adventure movie. Idris Elba stars as Nate Samuels, an American doctor who visits his late wife’s homeland in Africa with his two daughters. They visit a nearby wildlife preserve run by Nate’s friend, Martin, who introduced Nate to his wife. Martin doesn’t know that some poachers have slaughtered one of two nearby lion prides and riled up the pride’s male leader. The lion has attacked a village. While Martin and Nate use Martin’s jeep to take a tour of the preserve with the girls, the lion attacks them. Can Martin and Nate fend off the rampaging lion?
COMENIUS is a fascinating historical movie playing on Redeem TV. Made in Czechoslovakia, the movie opens with the famous Czechoslovakian theologian John Amos Comenius sitting for a portrait with the great painter Rembrandt, who, against his will, has been commissioned by the elders in Comenius’ church. Rembrandt starts out being very Anti-Christian. Comenius discusses being a family man and the movie cuts back from 1667 to 1605, when the Transylvanians invaded Austrio-Hungary and drove the few survivors out. At each important period of his life, flashbacks show viewers the history Comenius discusses with Rembrandt, plus the trials and tribulation in Comenius’ private life.
LEGACY PEAK is an adventure movie streaming on PureFlix. FAST & FURIOUS actor Lucas Black plays Jason, who wants to bond with his girlfriend’s two children before he proposes on Christmas Eve. He plans to fly the children, Ben and his older sister Sam, to their grandparents while his girlfriend finishes up work before the holidays. However, after going off-course, a flock of birds hits the plane, and Jason, Ben and Sam are stranded in the wild. Will they be able to band together and survive? Or will the emotional tensions, packs of wolves, and extreme weather get the better of them?
STYLED WITH LOVE is a bouncy, good-natured romantic comedy on UPtv. Inspired by her grandmother, a seamstress, Rosie Pink moves to Chicago to open her own personal styling business, with a strong focus on fashion. She comes to an agreement with her best friend’s cousin, Jaxon, a photographer who needs to improve his professional portfolio. Jaxon will take photos of Rosie and her customers that she can use to market her business, and he can use the photos to improve his portfolio and get his dream job.
THE ENGAGEMENT PLOT is a romantic drama on UPtv. Will, founder of a successful cosmetics business, reluctantly agrees to do a Bachelor TV series, THE PRICE OF LOVE, to boost his company’s sales. In the process, he meets Hanna, a very real young woman, with whom he begins to fall in love. When pressure from the television studio convinces him to reject Hanna in favor of another contestant, his poor selection harms the sales of his business and their relationship. His company hatches a plot to convince people they’re happily engaged. Can Will and Hannah make their fairy tale ending a reality?
UNCLE TOM II: AN AMERICAN ODYSSEY is a conservative, faith-friendly documentary on SalemNOW. Eleven black conservatives, including several strong black Christian leaders, show the American, Christian, capitalist roots of black people in the United States since the Civil War. They also describe how angry socialists and communists have been destroying those roots in the last 120 years and decimating the morality, happiness and prosperity of black Americans.
MY SON HUNTER is a satirical drama about President Joe Biden’s son, Hunter. It focuses on Joe and Hunter’s personal and professional relationship. It focuses on Hunter’s addiction to drugs and sex, plus Hunter and Joe’s controversial dealings with foreign nationals in Central Europe, Russia, and Communist China. The story starts one night in December 2019, after the FBI has taken possession of one of Hunter’s laptops. Hunter talks to a new girlfriend and his father during the night.
SAMARITAN is a superhero movie on Amazon Prime starring Sylvester Stallone. Sam is the 13-year-old son of a single mom in Granite City, a gritty metropolis that exists in a comic-book America. Sam thinks a mysterious loner named Joe living in Sam’s apartment complex is a missing superhero. Joe denies Sam’s theory but becomes a mentor to Sam when his mother asks him to guide Sam after Sam gets involved in a store robbery with some thugs. Eventually, some new bad guys appear.
FALL is a harrowing adventure movie about two women climbers. Becky is mourning her husband, Dan’s, accidental climbing death a year earlier. Her father tries to help, but he just drives her away. Shiloh Hunter, who was climbing with Becky and Dan that day, contacts Becky. A daredevil climber and gregarious podcast host, Hunter challenges Becky into coming with her on a daring 2,000-foot climb on an abandoned, isolated TV tower in the California desert. However, when they reach the top, the external ladder totally gives way. They’re too high to use their cellphones to ring for help. They must find another way down, or die trying.
LUCK is an animated comedy on Apple TV Plus about Sam, an orphan who constantly experiences bad luck and befriends a lucky Scottish cat named Bob, but, when her luck runs out, both she and Bob could be in trouble from the leaders of good and bad luck. LUCK is well animated, with some good messages promoting family, friendship and selfless unconditional love, but these themes are marred by pagan superstition throughout the movie.
PERSUASION is a new adaptation on Netflix of a Jane Austen novel. A young woman named Anne turns down the proposal of a man named Wentworth because her friends persuade her that he isn’t rich enough for her. Eight years later, Anne still thinks about Wentworth. Wentworth visits her area and goes to dinner with Anne’s family. However, Anne stays home to take care of her nephew. When the family returns from dinner, Anne’s cousin, Louisa, has developed feelings for Wentworth. Louisa and Wentworth spend more time together, and Anne is sad she let him go. Is there hope to rekindle the love between Anne and Wentworth, or will Wentworth choose Louisa?
LOVE, GAME, MATCH is a light romance on UPtv about two mismatched teachers at a high school in Santa Barbara, California. Liz is the new economics teachers at Faraday High School, and Ted is the phys ed teacher and tennis coach. Much to her chagrin, Liz ends up working together with Ted on planning the school’s annual Carnival Day before school break. They butt heads a few times. However, they discover they have a lot in common. Their growing respect and affection come under attack when a jealous teacher spreads gossip about Ted that undermines his honesty and integrity.
In the final episode of Season One of STAR TREK: STRANGE NEW WORLDS on Paramount Plus, Captain Pike gets a chance to warn two ensigns about a future accident that paralyzes Pike and kills them. Pike plans to write a warning letter, when an older version of himself appears. Pike’s future self tells Pike that, if he changes the future, it will have terrible consequences. Pike is skeptical. So, his future self urges Pike to touch a Klingon time crystal and see for himself. Pike is thrust forward to a situation from the original series starring William Shatner, where a powerful Romulan ship destroys an outpost near the Neutral Zone.
SECRET HEADQUARTERS is a slightly convoluted, teenage, humorous superhero movie on Paramount Plus. The movie stars Owen Wilson as Jack, a family man with a wife and a young son. During a camping outing, Jack finds an alien object, which turns him into a superhero who can do many good deeds. However, he keeps his superpowers secret from his family, and, years later, his super exploits have alienated both his wife, who separated from him, and his 13-year-old son, Charlie. When Charlie and his friends find Jack’s secret headquarters, their discovery alerts a mad industrialist who wants to use Jack’s power source for his own evil plans.
DAY OF THE SIEGE is a powerful, evocative war movie about the 1683 Battle of Vienna that saved Christian Europe from Islamic conquers. In the summer of 1683, 300,000 Muslim warriors of the Ottoman Empire began the siege of Vienna. The fall of the city opens the way to conquer Christian Europe. On September 11, the main battle begins. The survival of western civilization is on the line. A humble monk, Father Marco, plays a key role in helping an indecisive Emperor Leo-pold I to form the Christian army.
STAR TREK II: THE WRATH OF KHAN is celebrating its 40th Anniversary. One of Captain Kirk’s old enemies, Khan Noonien Singh, is discovered on the planet where Kirk left him. Once a paradise, the planet has become a wasteland. Khan now wants to avenge his wife’s death. Khan tries to steal a device that can destroy a planet but create a new paradise. When Kirk takes the Enterprise to see what’s happening, Khan uses another starship to launch a deadly surprise attack on the Enterprise.
PURSUIT OF FREEDOM is an intense, powerful drama about a woman from Ukraine who gets separated from her three children. Anna’s husband owes some money to gangsters. He gambles to get the money but eventually loses. The gangsters try to kidnap the family. The children get away, but Anna is sold to some Russian sex traffickers in Amsterdam. Three years later, Anna becomes sick and is dumped on the street. A Christian nurse tries to help her at the hospital, where Anna learns her children are hiding somewhere in Armenia with her husband’s poor cousin.
SERGEANT YORK stars Gary Cooper as Alvin York, a good-hearted, but hard drinking farmer in the Tennessee hills. His claim to fame is his astounding marksmanship. On his way to kill someone who cheated him, lightning knocks him off his horse and splits his rifle down the middle. Alvin takes this as confirmation from God of some lessons taught him by the local pastor. He immediately goes to get saved. Alvin forgives those who mistreated him, becomes an active church member and teaches Bible lessons to children. He’s drafted and goes to serve after three conscientious objection appeals fail. He and an officer get into a Scripture-quoting contest about justified killing. He’s sent on leave with a book about American history. He returns prepared to fight.
13: THE MUSICAL is a fun musical on Netflix. Evan is a 12-year-old Jewish boy. When his parents get a divorce, his mother moves them from New York City to Indiana right before his Bar Mitzva to live with her mother. Eager to make new friends, Evan meets Patrice, a quirky girl in his grade who shows him the town. The two get along well. However, when Evan sees the popular group, he wants to make friends with them instead so they will come to his Bar Mitzva. Will Evan stay be a loyal friend, or will he do what the popular group wants him to do?
EASTER SUNDAY is a comedy starring popular Filipino-American comic Jo Koy. Jo is up for a big television part. He’s trying to make it in Hollywood and is gaining traction, but it’s Easter, and he needs to go see his family. When he arrives with his son, Junior, he finds his family is in total chaos, with his mother and aunt fighting, and his cousin owing a loan shark $40,000. Will Jo be able to help his cousin get out of debt before his family gets hurt? Will the family relationships be restored and differences be put aside?
STRONG FATHERS, STRONG DAUGHTERS is a family comedy streaming on Pure Flix. A wealthy businessman named Steve Parston is surprised by his oldest daughter, Abby’s, sudden engagement to a missionary. Steve wants to support his first-born daughter, but he’s disappointed she wants to do missions and not continue in their family business. Steve wants to protect his daughter and hatches a plan to keep Abby close to home. However, when his scheming fails, he must reconcile supporting his daughter versus wanting to protect her. Will Steve’s selfish motives get the best of him? Or, will he be able to sacrifice his best wishes for his daughter and learn to love his family selflessly?
DC LEAGUE OF SUPER-PETS is a comical animated adventure involving Superman’s dog, Krypto, and his misfit shelter friends who get superpowers. The super-pets fight to save Superman from Lex Luther’s former laboratory guinea pig, Lulu, who kidnaps Superman. They try to get help from the Justice League of superheroes, but they too are captured and imprisoned by Lulu. It’s now up to Krypto, who has momentarily lost his superpowers after eating kryptonite poisoned cheese, and his zany animal shelter friends to save Superman and the entire Justice League.
VENGEANCE is a mystery thriller. The story is about a shallow, condescending, ambitious New York City magazine writer, Ben, who’s enticed by Ty, a “good old boy” in West Texas, to investigate the mysterious drug overdose of Ty’s sister, Abby. Ty and his family mistakenly think Abby was Ben’s girlfriend when she lived in New York. In reality, she was just one of Ben’s many conquests. Ty wants Ben to help find the person or persons responsible for Abby’s death and kill them. Of course, Ben says he won’t do that, but he promises to find the killers. However, he really wants to turn Abby’s story into fodder for his new podcast program.
NOPE is a unique horror, science fiction movie from popular black filmmaker Jordan Peele. The hero is a laconic black cowboy, Otis “OJ” Haywood, who’s recently inherited the family horse wrangling ranch in an isolated desert mountain gulch outside Los Angeles. His family, including his recently deceased father, have long rented horses to the entertainment industry, since silent movie days. A strange UFO he’s been tracking kills a bunch of people nearby. So, OJ teams up with his sister, a local Hispanic electronics expert and a quirky white cinematographer to entrap the UFO and destroy it.
LIVE+LOCAL is a six-episode TV sitcom on the Pure Flix streaming outlet. The series focuses on the conflicts, troubles and interplay between Tommy Murphy and Tina Knott, the co-hosts of a morning radio show on a struggling Christian radio station somewhere in Middle America. The morning show includes comical bits and interviews with real Christian artists, comics and authors. When the long-time owner hires a new program director, Tommy and Tina fear the station will be sold to a conglomerate that will end original programming. Stand-up comic and actor Dave Coulier [“Coo-lee-yay”], star of the popular 90s sitcom FULL HOUSE, plays Tommy, and Emily Pendergast of HBO’s Emmy winning VEEP sitcom, plays Tina.
MARCEL THE SHELL WITH SHOES ON is a live action Claymation comedy about a little seashell wearing tennis shoes who has been living with his grandmother at a rental house. Two years ago, the married owners had a big fight, and the man left. However, Marcel’s parents and brother, and their whole community, got scared, hid in a drawer and accidentally were scooped up by the husband. Marcel and his grandma befriend the latest renter. He turns out to be a documentary filmmaker who puts popular videos of them on the internet.
PREY is a science fiction movie on Hulu where a group of Comanche Indian warriors on the American Plains in 1719, led by a hunter and his sister, battles an alien hunter equipped with futuristic technology. Part of the Predator franchise, the movie focuses on Naru and her brother, Taabe, members of the Comanche tribe. Naru wants to hunt with the young men, but the men laugh. Her brother, Taabe, is sympathetic, but he doubts she’s up to the task. Both will be tested when the Predator alien attacks the tribe’s warriors and a group of French fur trappers.
PAWS OF FURY: THE LEGEND OF HANK is an animated action comedy. A dog named Hank wants to become a samurai but the land of samurai cats don’t want him there. Instead, the evil villain, Ika Chu, appoints Hank, knowing he will be awful, to be the local town’s samurai. Ika Chu wants to take over the land by bringing in ninjas to fight Hank. With the help of a washed up, old samurai cat, Hank becomes a better samurai, but in turn, he gets a big ego. Will pride come before the fall?
THIRTEEN LIVES is an intense drama, retelling the true story of the Thai soccer team stranded in a flooded cave in 2018. With 13 lives on the line, the world comes to their rescue. Two professional cave divers from England and Canada devise an ambitious yet dangerous plan to rescue the boys and their coach. Although divers commit to their plan, viewers wonder if their efforts can save the team.
MRS. HARRIS GOES TO PARIS is a charming comedy set in 1957. Mrs. Ada Harris is a perky cleaning woman in London whose missing husband’s finally been ruled killed in World War II. Her clients are mostly wealthier people, except for a ditzy young actress trying to break into show business. One day, Mrs. Harris spots a beautiful Christian Dior dress in the home of a wealthy client who hasn’t paid her in weeks. The woman says the dress cost 500 pounds. Mrs. Harris decides she must have her own Dior dress, but how can she get the money?
WHERE THE CRAWDADS SING is an intriguing mystery. Kya has grown up alone in the Carolina Marsh as an outcast. When she’s put on trial for a young man’s murder, Kya tells her lawyer her whole life story to get him the information he needs. As the movie navigates her life, the audience wonders if Kya really did murder Chase Andrews, or are the townspeople being too judgmental for thinking she’s guilty?
JAZZ FEST: A NEW ORLEANS STORY celebrates 50 years of the Jazz Music and Heritage Festival in New Orleans. The documentary seeks to educate viewers on everything related to jazz music. Several facets of jazz, R&B, soul, and rock music are explored, including their roots in African music and black gospel music. Many artists interviewed convey deep love for the music, and for New Orleans, where the festival originated. Although tough subjects like slavery and Hurricane Katrina are discussed, the documentary pays homage to the festival in a tasteful way.
OBI-WAN KENOBI: PART VI, which is streaming on Disney Plus, is the last episode of the first season. It opens with the rebel spaceship carrying Obi-Wan Kenobi and Princess Leia fleeing from a Star Destroyer commanded by Darth Vader, Obi-Wan’s former student and Leia and Luke’s father. The rebel ship’s captain needs time to fix the hyperdrive. So, Obi-Wan says goodbye to Leia and pilots a flyer to draw Vader away. Meanwhile, Luke’s aunt and uncle take up arms to protect Luke from a wounded rogue warrior consumed by revenge. Luke’s father murdered her Jedi teacher and friends when she was young.
THE SEA BEAST is an animated adventure on Netflix. An orphaned girl named Maisie stows away on board the ship of Captain Crow, who’s chasing a giant sea beast called Red Bluster because it took his eye. Crow orders his adopted adult son, Jacob, to look after Maisie as Crow looked after Jacob when Jacob was young. However, after a battle with Red Bluster, Maisie and Jacob learn that the sea beasts aren’t malicious. Can they save Red Bluster from Captain Crow’s vengeance and convince people to stop killing the sea beasts?
STAR TREK: STRANGE NEW WORLDS is a science fiction series on Paramount Plus about the command of Christopher Pike, the captain of the Starship Enterprise before James Kirk. The first season, which consists of 10 episodes, shows Pike, Mr. Spock, a young Ensign Uhuru, and other crew members facing different obstacles while trying to protect colonists from storms, pirates and aliens, establish peace with new civilizations and explore the galaxy. Meanwhile, Spock has relationship issues with the Vulcan woman to whom he’s betrothed. Also, Captain Pike has prescient visions of a future accident that will change his life drastically.
“The Elysian Kingdom,” the eighth episode of STAR TREK: STRANGE NEW WORLDS, has the Enterprise crew trapped inside a sentient nebula. Doctor M’Benga reads a bedtime story for his disease-ridden daughter. When he reports to the bridge, the crew members dress and act like characters from his daughter’s fantasy book. He discovers the nebula is responsible for brainwashing his friends. Doctor M’Benga plays along with the charade until he figures out how to undo the nebula’s effects.
MINIONS: THE RISE OF GRU is an animated comedy in the DESPICABLE ME franchise. In the movie, Gru is a boy who longs to be a supervillain. Gru wants to join the Vicious 6, but they tease him because of his young age. So, he steals the Zodiac Stone from them. Furious, they chase after him, but Gru gives the stone to a minion, who loses it. Will Gru find the missing stone, or will the Vicious 6 destroy him?
HALLELUJAH: LEONARD COHEN, A JOURNEY, A SONG is an interesting documentary about Leonard Cohen, the writer of the popular song “Hallelujah.” The song has graced the soundtrack of several major movies, including two MOVIEGUIDE® Award winning animated movies, SHREK and SING. The movie contains many interviews of Cohen over the years. It also contains concert footage and interviews with friends, several album producers and engineers, Cohen’s rabbi, a music journalist who’s interviewed Cohen many times, and other musical artists.
WATCHER follows a married couple named Julia and Francis after they move into an apartment in Bucharest. Francis is comfortable in their new surroundings, but Julia struggles to feel at home. Her discomfort turns to paranoia when she starts to believe a man in a neighboring apartment watches her through the window. After Julia learns of a serial killer who decapitated a woman in their apartment complex, she’s convinced her stalker’s to blame. So, she decides to keep tabs on him instead of the other way around. Will Julia’s paranoia save her life or ruin her marriage and turn everyone into her enemy?
ELVIS is Director Baz Luhrman’s fictionalized version of rock star Elvis Presley’s career and life. The movie focuses on the Pentecostal and black musical roots of Presley’s career. It also focuses on his relationship with his parents, his controversial manager, Colonel Tom Parker, and his wife, Priscilla. The movie is narrated by Colonel Parker, who’s played by Tom Hanks. Except for some recreations of four or so songs during his Vegas career and a notorious performance of “Trouble,” the movie only has snippets from some of Elvis Presley’s biggest hits.
CHICKENHARE AND THE HAMSTER OF DARKNESS is an animated fantasy adventure on Netflix. An adventurous rabbit named Peter is looking for treasure but finds an orphaned baby who’s half chicken and half hare. Growing up, Chickenhare loves and admires his adoptive father, who’s become king and continues to go on adventures. Chickenhare wants to join the Royal Adventure Society, but he fails the test. So, he decides to find a long-lost artifact with magical occult powers. However, his father’s brother is also trying to find the treasure so that he can steal the father’s throne.
Streaming on Disney Plus, RISE is the inspirational true story of a close-knit, Nigerian-Greek immigrant family’s journey to produce the first three brothers ever to star in the NBA. Vera and Charles flee from Nigeria to make a dangerous trek to build a better life in Greece. They work hard as a family to survive. The oldest boys discover a free basketball clinic. Their abundance of natural talent is soon uncovered. To get to the pros, however, they must have legal status. Against all odds, they team up with a new agent, but can they succeed, and can the family stay together?
HOLLYWOOD STARGIRL is a follow-up to the movie STARGIRL on Disney Plus. It follows Stargirl and her mother, who move to Los Angeles for the mother’s new job as a costume designer for a new movie. Stargirl is a singer whose new neighbors are a pair of brothers trying to make a sizzle reel for a movie they want to make. She joins them, using her singing talents to help. In the process of helping them, Stargirl finds love and a home in Los Angeles. However, her life hits a snag when her mom’s movie unexpectedly shuts down production.
INTERCEPTOR is a military action thriller on Netflix. Captain J.J. Collins is a female military officer on a base located deep in the Pacific Ocean. Her base is one just two American bases equipped with missiles that can intercept nuclear missiles in mid-air. One night, 16 nuclear missiles are stolen from a Russian nuclear facility. The rogue soldiers make a surprise attack on Collins’ base so they can render the interceptor missiles hopeless and ensure the nuclear missiles can hit 16 American cities. Collins and a nerdy underling soldier must team up to stop the attack and save America...
STAY PRAYED UP is a documentary about an 83-year-old gospel singer in North Carolina, Lena Mae Perry. The movie focuses on her commitment to the Lord and the career of her and her gospel group, The Branchettes. The movie follows Lena as she rehearses for a special gospel music recording at a local church. It contains performances of gospel songs while Lena talks about her career and what faith means to her. The movie asserts that gospel music “has the tendency to go where the Gospel cannot go, because the Gospel is the power unto salvation.” Lena says, “The Lord has blessed us, kept us and given us the strength that we need to do what we need, and we are happy, so, so happy.”
JURASSIC WORLD DOMINION brings back the leading cast members of the first JURASSIC PARK movie. Scientist Ellie Sattler, paleontologist Alan Grant and mathematician Ian Malcolm team up to expose a large, shady biotech firm. The firm has re-created an extinct species of large locusts that’s eating all the world’s crops except for the corporation’s modified ones. Meanwhile, the same firm has sent some thugs to kidnap the baby of Owen Grady’s trained raptor dinosaur. They’ve also kidnapped Owen and his wife, and Claire’s adopted daughter, Maisie. The two situations turn out to be related. So, the five heroes all team up together.
ERASER: REBORN is a reboot of a 1996 Arnold Schwarzenegger action movie. The new installment follows Mason Pollard, a United States Marshal whose job is to fake the deaths of witnesses and protect them from their enemies. Pollard’s next client, Rina Kimura, is the ex-wife of a crime boss. After Rina steals from her ex-husband and ends up killing him, she drags Pollard into a game of cat and mouse. Unknown to Pollard, his longtime friend and partner betrays him and ends up working alongside the people hunting Rina. Meanwhile, Pollard and Rina must learn to trust one another to have a chance of survival.
THE HOMESCHOOL AWAKENING is an enthusiastic, encouraging documentary on the positive nature of homeschooling. Many couples give testimony to their journey in homeschooling. The children share the benefits of being taught at home. The movie answers many common questions people have about the practices, and success, of homeschooled children. The parents and experts interviewed stress that one size does not fit all. Homeschooling can seem like a monumental task. However, families can work together and get help from homeschooling co-ops. Such factors make the task of homeschooling not only achievable, but also desirable.
JERRY AND MARGE GO LARGE is a comedy streaming on Paramount Plus. Jerry is a retired math whiz. When he finds a glitch in the state’s lottery system, he decides to play the lottery full time. Jerry’s wife, Marge, finds out what Jerry’s doing, but she decides to go along with the adventure in order to spend time with her husband. Jerry decides to make a company out of the winnings and let the townspeople get shares. The entire town starts to be revived from the money Jerry and Marge are winning. However, will they be able to keep on winning and will they risk it all?
FATHER OF THE BRIDE is a Hispanic update of two popular movies. Billy and Ingrid Herrera are having marital problems and seeing a marriage counselor. However, when their daughter, Sofia, comes home and tells them she’s engaged, their whole focus shifts to the anticipation of the wedding. It’s not long afterward that Billy thinks of some unwarranted objectionable things about Sofia’s fiancé, Adan. For example, he’s too kind, his family is too rich, etc. Will Billy be able to get along with Adan and accept the marriage? Will Billy get along with Adan’s father?
WHAT IS A WOMAN? is a documentary on gender identity. It’s streaming on a political news website, The Daily Wire. Author and radio host Matt Walsh questions various “experts” and activists about gender identity issues, including “puberty blockers,” sex change surgery, “gender” pronouns, and body mutilation. Walsh discusses the issues with people on city streets. He also interviews a “gender affirming” therapist, a sex change surgeon, a male college professor in women and gender studies, and a female pediatrician. He also talks to critics of the gender identity movement and some tribesmen in Kenya.
HUSTLE tells the story of an NBA player scout for the Philadelphia 76ers and his determination to get an unknown Spanish player onto the team through hard work molding raw talent. Adam Sandler plays Stanley Sugerman, an exhausted basketball scout who scours the courts across Europe to recruit foreign talent for his team. He has a devoted wife, Teresa, and teenage daughter, whom he rarely sees because of his frantic schedule. One night, Stanley discovers incredible raw talent in a Spanish player. Getting him into the NBA turns out to be really difficult.
TERROR ON THE PRAIRIE is a new western made by the folks at The Daily Wire for their conservative website. It’s set after the American Civil War. Hattie McAllister and her sharpshooter husband, Jeb, struggle to feed their two children on their ranch in Montana. Meanwhile, a group of Confederate outlaws seek revenge on Jeb, a soldier who defected to the Union. The bandits stage a shootout at the McAllister household while Jeb’s in town getting supplies after a brutal winter. With only her weapons and her wits, Hattie protects her Montana family.
NEVER AGAIN? is a documentary against Anti-Semitism. It tells stories of a Holocaust survivor and the transformation of an Anti-Semite from England. Irving Roth describes his experiences in the Jewish Holocaust during World War II. Kasim Hafeez is a speaker, writer and activist who tells how he was transformed from being a rabid Anti-Semite to one of the most vocal public defenders of Israel in the world. The movie also features many newsreel images and many interviews with several Israelis, American Jews and rabbis, and Pastor John Hagee, the co-founder of Christians United for Israel.
THE WALK is a drama set in 1974 during the turmoil in Boston over a judge’s ruling forcing government schools to desegregate by busing white and black students. Bill, a white Catholic cop, and his wife try to control their teenage daughter, Kate, who’s secretly seeing the white racist son of a man Bill put in jail. Bill is ordered to protect the black students being bused to Kate’s school. Pressure mounts when the local Irish mob boss and many of Bill’s fellow officers decide to let the black children fend for themselves against angry white protestors.
In THE ENGAGEMENT BACK-UP on UPtv, Luna loves her family’s maritime museum, but it isn’t doing well financially. The museum needs some press. Meanwhile, Luna’s assistant, Joanne, suggests they could rent out the museum for weddings. They decide to take photos of Luna in a wedding dress, looking like she’s getting married near the museum. However, a famous bachelor, Jackson Valentine, photobombs the photos. Joanne accidently sends the photos to all the major press, who think Luna and Jackson are engaged. They hype the story because Jackson is a famous name. Will the press learn the truth? Will Luna save the museum?
THE BOB’S BURGERS MOVIE is a feature adaptation of Fox-TV’s animated comedy series BOB’S BURGERS. The movie and show focus on the Belcher family, which consists of Bob, his wife Linda, and their three children, Tina, Gene and Louise. The family may lose their restaurant because they owe the bank money. Their situation becomes more complicated when a sinkhole forms in front of their restaurant. Unable to get customers, Bob loses hope. However, when Louise discovers a dead body at the bottom of the sinkhole, the children embark on a mission to solve the mystery and save the family restaurant.
ALL THROUGH THE NIGHT is a classic comic thriller from 1942 starring Humphrey Bogart. Bogart plays “Gloves” Donahue, a professional gambler and shady sports promoter. When the neighborhood baker who makes his favorite cheesecake is murdered, Gloves and his perpetually grumpy right-hand man, Sunshine, played by William Demarest, investigate. Their trail leads to a den of Nazi spies intending to blow up a Navy ship in New York Harbor. The Germans are blackmailing a beautiful German singer by holding her father in a concentration camp.
OUR DREAM WEDDING is a romance movie on UPtv. Natalie is a young doctor who’s agonizing over what kind of medical residency to do for her medical license and whether to marry her longtime boyfriend, Scott. Natalie asks her grandmother for advice. Her grandmother convinces Natalie to try on the grandmohter’s “magical” wedding veil. The veil transports Natalie to her future, where she and Scott are happily married with two beautiful children, and she has a successful family practice. Will Natalie be ready to commit?
“Memento Mori,” the fourth episode of STAR TREK: STRANGE NEW WORLDS, begins with the Enterprise delivering a powerful air filter to a Federation colony. When Enterprise arrives, the crew finds the colonists have been attacked. Security Officer La’an Noonien-Singh rescues survivors but recognizes they’re victims of an attack by the Gorn, a ruthless alien race. La’an warns Captain Pike, but Gorn spaceships suddenly appear and damage the Enterprise. Pike orders a retreat into a gas cloud surrounding a nearby dying star tethered to a black hole. Can he lure the Gorn ships into the cloud, where Enterprise can be on more of an equal footing?
OBI-WAN KENOBI is another STAR WARS series streaming on Disney Plus. The first two episodes start 10 years after the birth of Luke and Leia Skywalker. Obi-Wan Kenobi is still on the desert planet. From a distance, he watches over Luke, who’s being raised by his aunt and uncle. Obi-Wan Kenobi must venture out from his hiding place to rescue the young, precocious Princess Leia from kidnappers. Her adopted father tells Obi-Wan he’s tracked the kidnappers to a lawless planet named Daiyu.
STRANGE NEW WORLDS is a new STAR TREK series on Paramount Plus. Christopher Pike, the second Captain of the Enterprise, rejoins the ship in the first episode and must establish peace between two warring factions on a developing planet. In the second episode, the crew encounters a planet-destroying comet, but discovers the comet is a sentient artifact with a possible metaphysical origin. In the third episode, the crew investigates the disappearance of a colony of genetically modified humans. The fourth episode shows the Enterprise crew trying to survive a violent encounter with the Gorn, a ruthless alien species.
In Part III of the OBI-WAN KENOBI series on Disney Plus, Obi-wan and a 10-year-old Princess Leia escape to a mining planet called Mapuzo. However, the Empire is hot on their trail. Inquisitor Reva reports to Darth Vader that they’ve tracked Obi-wan to the system of mining planets. On Mapuzo, Obi-wan and Leia hitch a ride on a transport leading to a local spaceport city. They run into a stromtrooper checkpoint leading to the spaceport but also get help from an unexpected source. Eventually, Darth Vader arrives at the city, he and Obi-wan have an exciting confrontation, and the episode ends on a cliffhanger.
THE VALET is a comedy on Hulu. Olivia, a movie star, and a billionaire, Vincent, hire a valet, Antonio, to cover up their extramarital affair. Antonio poses as the movie star’s boyfriend after the paparazzi uncover Olivia’s illicit affair with Vincent, who’s married. Vincent’s wife hires a private investigator to verify the story and to find out if her husband really is having an affair. Olivia and Antonio must appear in public a few times to make their story believable, which includes the red carpet opening of her newest movie. The narcissistic actress forms an unlikely friendship with the sincere, hard-working Antonio and his family.
TOP GUN: MAVERICK is a sequel to the popular 1986 hit starring Tom Cruise. Cruise plays Pete “Maverick” Mitchell who after 30 years as a fighter pilot is now a test pilot. After he crashes a supersonic jet, Maverick is sent to the Top Gun school in San Diego to pick six fighter pilots for a dangerous mission to bomb a uranium enrichment plant in a foreign country. He faces two major obstacles. First, the mission looks impossible. Second, one candidate is the son of his late friend, Goose, who died on a training flight with Maverick.
In DOWNTON ABBEY: A NEW ERA, based on the popular PBS series, things at Downton Abbey are changing. The year is 1927. Violet Grantham, the family matriarch, plans to leave a French villa she owns to her granddaughter, Sybil, whose mother died during the series. Many characters from Downton travel to see it and make sure the inheritance is legit. Meanwhile, Lady Mary and the servants at Downton welcome a film crew to the estate, just in time for the technology of filmmaking to change, which requires extra help from the Downton staff and family.
OPERATION MINCEMEAT is based on the true story of two British Intelligence officers, Montagu and Cholmondeley, in World War II. The two officers head up a top-secret operation to misdirect the German military and save thousands of lives ahead of the Allied invasion of Sicily. Despite resistance from the military authorities, Prime Minister Winston Churchill approves the operation, which involves planting misleading papers on a corpse. Some problems arise, however. The two men and their team must pray that the pieces of their espionage mission fall into place.
TANKHOUSE is a comical farce about a wacky theater contest in Fargo, North Dakota between two theatrical troupes. Tucker Charlemagne is an avant-garde theatre actor and producer in New York who runs a troupe with his girlfriend, Sandrene. All is going well until one night, a shocked old lady has a heart attack and dies in front of a theatre critic, ruining their show engagement and driving the couple out of town in shame. They end up in Sandrene’s hometown of Fargo, where there’s a contest to own an old movie theater to the best theatrical troupe in town. Tucker is driven to win the contest.
FIRESTARTER is a science fiction thriller about a young girl named Charlie with enhanced pyrokinetic power who’s chased by an evil government agency but hidden and protected by her parents. When the agency sends a ruthless agent named Rainbird to capture Charlie, her mother is killed, but Charlie and her father escape and go on the run, but Rainbird and the agency’s agents are hot on their trail.
HARMONY IN PARADISE is a romantic comedy on UPtv about Amelia, an ambitious but inexperienced wildlife journalist. Although she’s earned accolades for her writing with Geographic Life, she’s never actually left New York. The magazine is working to find a special story for their centennial publication. Amelia must reach out of her comfort zone and actually travel to Puerto Rico for the assignment that could change her career forever. When she arrives, she’s all business. However, after meeting a handsome conservationist named Fernando, Amelia begins to learn about the island’s beauty and its animals with a new perspective. Eventually, Amelia must decide whether her new relationship with the island and Fernando is more important than her career.
The Great Dane MARMADUKE disgraces the screen in this 2022 animated release on Netflix, which portrays man’s best friend as a wrecking ball catapulting from one disaster to the next. Marmaduke crashes Billy’s birthday party with an unexpected cannonball dive from the second floor of the family home into the backyard pool, releasing a destructive tidal wave. Barbara, Billy’s sister, takes a video and posts it. It then goes viral. The video comes to the attention of world renowned dog trainer, Guy, who offers to transform Marmaduke from an undisciplined cad to a World Champion. Can Guy help Marmaduke overcome his errant ways?
In Season One of CHIP ‘N’ DALE: PARK LIFE on Disney Plus, the two mischievous chipmunks always get into trouble on crazy adventures. In their days at the park, Chip and Dale often cause trouble for Pluto. They look for the best nuts and berries and won’t stop until they get them. Many adventures involve eating, stealing and meeting new friends.
“Silver Linings,” the 12th season finale of CBS-TV’s BLUE BLOODS, is another intense, superb drama about a family bringing justice to New York City. Police Sergeant Jamie Regan and his late brother’s son, Joe, a detective, work a case together to find an immigrant woman’s teenage daughter, who’s been sex trafficked. Jamie’s wife is upset when a knife-wielding thief she helped arrest is let go because of the DA’s new sentencing guidelines. Danny Regan and his partner fight to get justice for a woman in witness protection who was murdered. Police Commissioner Frank Regan and his daughter, Erin, criticize the DA’s new guidelines, which clearly put citizens and police in danger.
College-bound Auden goes ALONG FOR THE RIDE for summer vacation to the small seaside town of Colby. There, she hopes to reconnect with her father and break free from her dull life. Her mother seems reluctant to let Auden leave, but her overly exuberant stepmom is eager for her company. Meanwhile, Auden’s father is busy working and avoids any interaction. Auden meets Eli, a BMXer and fellow insomniac. Eli wants to help Auden try new things. As the teenagers embark on nightly escapades, they develop feelings for each other. However, they both have secret personal hurts too painful to discuss.
SNEAKERELLA is a musical streaming on Disney Plus. El works for his stepfather in his late mother’s sneaker store in Queens, New York. El is creative, constantly sketching ideas for a new shoe, but his stepfather wants his head out of the clouds and into his work. One day, El and his best friend, Sami, meet Kira King, the daughter of Darius King, a famous former basketball player with his own line of sneakers. However, El and Kira forget to exchange phone numbers. So, Sami comes up with the idea to have El design a shoe in time for the Kings’ charity gala, but can El finish the shoe in time?
THE NATURE OF ROMANCE is a light drama airing on UPtv. The story follows a travel writer, Jackie, who goes camping at a state park with her best friend, Annette. Everything goes wrong, however, and Jackie finds herself alone on the trip waiting for an RV repairman. Meanwhile, Sean Davis, the park’s lead ranger, searches for a way to get money to renovate the Nature Center. When Sean finds out Jackie’s a travel writer, he wonders if she can write a piece that can bring more tourists to the park. Along the way, romance blossoms between them.
LALEH is a sports drama about a young woman in Iran who loves to drive fast and gets a chance to race cars in professional competition. Based on a true story, the movie opens with Laleh Seddigh driving her red sports car home from a vacation and running afoul of some male racecar drivers during a road rally. Laleh beats the men with her own driving skills. A racecar promoter sees what she did and offers to train her as a professional. Laleh agrees but runs afoul of three male drivers from the rally.
ESCAPE THE FIELD is an tense horror, science fiction thriller. Six adults are kidnapped and wake up in an open clearing surrounded by a cornfield. They must fight against booby traps and a violent but unseen creature. A woman named Sam becomes the nominal leader of this ragtag group of fearful folks. Sam and Tyler formulate the various steps they may need to escape, particularly putting together an assortment of complex clues. However, their best fighter gets hit by a poison dart and starts acting erratically.
2000 MULES is a documentary by Christian, conservative author and filmmaker Dinesh D’Souza. The movie shows that at least 2000 people were caught red-handed in stuffing standalone ballot drop boxes in swing states during the 2020 presidential election, an illegal practice called ballot harvesting. The movie uses tons of video evidence and GPS data to show that this ballot stuffing augmented Joe Biden’s vote totals in 2020. The Democrat Party’s support for this fraudulent system were aided by about $590 million from Democrat supporters like Marc Zuckerberg, George Soros, Warren Buffet, and others.
ICE AGE: SCRAT TALES is an animated comedy on Disney Plus. Consisting of six short episodes, it focuses on Scrat the Ice Age squirrel trying to figure out fatherhood. One day while chasing the infamous acorn, he finds a baby Scrat instead. It takes a brief time, but Scrat soon starts caring for Baby Scrat, and both begin to enjoy their time together. That changes, however, when Baby Scrat finds the acorn. From that moment, they fight one another for the acorn until it plunges over a cliff into some lava.
IT’S THE SMALL THINGS, CHARLIE BROWN is a cute, amusing animated comedy on Apple TV+. Charlie Brown believes this could be his team’s year to beat Peppermint Patty’s baseball team in the neighborhood baseball game. However, his sister, Sally, bonds with a yellow dandelion flower right on top of the pitcher’s mound. Charlie asks Sally to move, but she refuses to budge. With Lucy’s help, Sally’s stand attracts support from all over the neighborhood. Peppermint Patty tells Charlie his team will have to forfeit the game if he can’t get the people to leave. What is Charlie Brown going to do?
ALOHA WITH LOVE is a romantic drama on UPtv. Gemma is a big city architect who flies to Hawaii after her Aunt Lani’s death. Gemma learns that Aunt Lani left her family home to Gemma and her sister, Sarah. Gemma reluctantly works with a handsome contractor named Ben, who wants Lani’s legacy to survive. He and Gemma become a strong team and fall in love. However, a persistent ex-boyfriend makes Gemma’s decision about the house and what she truly loves a lot more complicated. Gemma must choose between the legacy and love for her family and financial stability for the future.
THE BIGGEST LITTLE FARM: THE RETURN is a short documentary special on Disney Plus. It’s a follow-up to a 2018 documentary by farmers John and Molly Chester. As the Chesters document their 10-year journey in creating a thriving, complex ecosystem of farm animals and fertile soil, they also deal with loss, droughts, predators, and other challenges to their farm. In just a 30 minute runtime, the Chesters celebrate the beauty of Creation, animal birth, and the complex ecosystem of animals and wildlife.
YELLOWSTONE ROMANCE is a romantic comedy airing on UPtv. Olivia is happy living life with her best friend, Amber, in New York City. When she finds out Amber is engaged and moving to a ranch, Olivia selfishly isn’t happy for Amber. She plans a bachelorette celebration on a working dude ranch to try to change Amber’s mind. What first seemed like a simple plan to keep her best friend in the Big Apple turns into a much bigger adventure. For example, Olivia surprisingly is the most successful adapting to life on a ranch. This attracts the attention of Travis, one of the ranchers. Will Amber second guess her marriage plans? Will Olivia give life outside the city a chance?
THE BAD GUYS is an animated comedy based on the book series by Aaron Blabey about the classic animal villains in their pursuit of redemption. Wolf, Snake, Shark, Tarantula, and Piranha have teamed together to pursue a life of crime until they are given an opportunity to go straight. Now, they must unlearn their devious nature and choose the path that stresses self-sacrifice and serving others. Eventually, just when their good behavior is about to be rewarded, they discover that someone is setting them up to be framed.
Based on a true story, THE DUKE is a delightful and touching, but flawed, British comedy. Jim Broadbent plays 60-year-old taxi driver Kempton Bunton, who lives in Newcastle with his wife, Dorothy, who works as a cleaning woman for wealthy families. An unsuccessful playwright, Kempton works as a taxi driver. He’s also obsessed with social causes, especially looking out for veterans and elderly people cut off from society because of poverty. He becomes outraged by the government buying an expensive painting of Duke Wellington. He involves his younger son in the painting’s theft.
THE UNBEARABLE WEIGHT OF MASSIVE TALENT is an action comedy starring Nicolas Cage as himself. Cage struggles to find work and has become estranged from his wife and daughter. For $1 million dollars, he agrees to attend the birthday party in Spain of a wealthy superfan named Javi. The two men become fast friends. However, the CIA captures Cage and asks him to spy on his new friend. They believe Javi leads a dangerous family drug cartel and that he’s kidnapped a foreign dignitary’s daughter. Cage must live up to his onscreen action persona to save himself and the ones he loves most.
MEMORY stars Liam Neeson as Alex, a hitman suffering from an onset of Alzheimer’s disease who’s ordered to kill a young teenager girl rescued from a sex trafficking ring by an FBI agent named Vincent. Alex can not go through with the murder of the girl, but his business partner in Mexico City carries it out and tries to kill Alex. Alex turns the tables on his business partner. He then goes on a rampage against the human traffickers behind the girl’s murder. Meanwhile, the FBI agent and his team try to follow Alex’s trail of destruction and get to the culprits before Alex does.
FAMILY CAMP is a funny, heartwarming comedy about two dysfunctional families that learn how to love one another at a Christian camp. Tommy Ackerman is committed to providing for his wife and two children, but his wife, Grace, wants more. She makes Tommy sign up for their church’s annual Family Camp. However, when they arrive, they’re put into a round yert with Eddie Sanders and his family. Eddie is rather annoying and, when he gets Tommy lost in the woods with him, some comical and dangerous situations ensue.
Airing on UPtv, KISS THE COOK is a romantic comedy about food, family and love. Kacey Cooke is given the chance of a lifetime to create her own cookbook. However, although her family recipes are great, she’s actually not the best cook, so she needs some help from a young chef named Gavin. Kacey loves her grandmother’s colorful recipes while Gavin is all about farm fresh simplicity. Their opposing visions result in some conflict. Will Kacey and Gavin be able to compromise and work together to create the perfect cookbook?
THE GREATEST INHERITANCE is a family comedy on Amazon Prime and Apple TV+. It’s also available on Video on Demand. The story follows four adult siblings, Casey, Carey, George, and Rachel, who reunite for a memorial for their late mother and claim their inheritance. However, getting the inheritance won’t be as easy as they think. Their mother has created some challenges. The challenges lead to clues pointing to the location of their mother’s will, which includes the deed to her estate. They’ll just have to work together to see who gets the greatest inheritance.
THE MATTER OF LIFE is a documentary that opens the viewers’ minds to question what they think they about abortion. The documentary is informative and filled with fascinating testimonies and interviews of authors and pro-life advocates. They ask big questions that make the audience think, such as: are the unborn like one of us, does every person have the right to life? The movie features real life testimonies of gynecologists who explain different abortion procedures. It explains the history of abortion, including the history of Planned Parenthood and the Roe vs. Wade case. Included is actual footage from aborted fetuses in the early weeks of pregnancy.
THE WEEKEND AWAY is an intense thriller on Netflix. Beth and her best friend, Kate, spend a weekend vacation in Croatia. Kate is coming off a breakup with her ex-husband, Jay, and uses his credit card to pay for their dinners, taxi drives and other expenses. Though Beth is having problems in her marriage, she tries to bow out of Kate’s ravenous appetite for partying and sex. Kate convinces Beth to go to a club with her, but Beth wakes up the following morning unable to remember anything from the night before. However, Kate is missing, and Beth tries to uncover the truth. Beth soon realizes she can’t trust anyone, even her own husband.
THE HARBINGERS OF THINGS TO COME is a documentary by Christian Rabbi Jonathan Cahn calling for the people of the United States to repent and return to God. In the movie, Cahn warns that 9/11, the COVID-19 plague and the political division in 2020, and the fall of Afghanistan in 2021 are divine harbingers of America’s destruction if the people don’t repent and return to God. He points out that New York State legalized abortion in 1970 and exactly 50 years later started to be hit by the COVID-19 epidemic...
FATHER STU stars Mark Wahlberg as a rough man with a hard life. Stu has been so beaten up in the boxing ring that his doctor tells him he must stop boxing or die. So, he moves to Hollywood and gets a job as a butcher while pursuing acting. At his grocery store, Stu meets Carmen, a beautiful woman who tells him she will only see him if he comes to church and helps her teach Sunday School. Will Stu change his ways and follow God?
SONIC THE HEDGEHOG 2 is a terrific sequel to the hit 2020 action comedy. This time, a red alien warrior named Knuckles helps Dr. Robotnik escape the mushroom planet. Knuckles is the last of the race that destroyed the race of owl aliens who protected Sonic. Knuckles and Robotnik are after an emerald of immense power. Sonic teams up with Miles, a fox alien with two tails, to reach the emerald before Robotnik and Knuckles do.
AMBULANCE is an intense action thriller. Danny and Will are two brothers. Danny is white, but Will is black and was taken in by Danny’s father when they were boys. Will’s wife needs an expensive operation. He goes to Danny, an unrepentant bank robber, for money, but Danny convinces Will to go with him and some men on a major bank heist in downtown Los Angeles. A naïve young police officer interrupts their plan, and his partner begins a violent shootout. To escape, Danny and Will hijack an ambulance and its female paramedic after one of them shoots the young officer.
MORBIUS is a science fiction thriller with scary horror scenes about super-strong vampires. Dr. Michael Morbius is a world-renowned scientist who’s created a valuable artificial blood plasma. However, he suffers from a crippling, terminal blood disease. Michael finds a possible cure. However, it’s developed from vampire bats, and the serum turns him into a monster, with a craving for human blood. Michael avoids drinking real blood by consuming his artificial blood. However, its effectiveness is wearing off. Meanwhile, his best friend has stolen and injected the serum, with no intention of not killing people for their blood.
INFINITE STORM is a true story about a woman who rescues a despondent man stranded in a blizzard. Pam Bales is an experienced climber and search and rescue volunteer in New Hampshire. Pam sets out for a morning hike on Mount Washington, despite a forecast predicting a massive snowstorm. Pam tries to get down the mountain before night falls, but she comes across an incoherent man sitting in the snow. He is barely alive. Pam tries to help the man down the mountain, but he fights her constantly.
APOLLO 10½: A SPACE AGE CHILDHOOD is an imaginative, animated homage on Netflix to the space race and 1969 America. It’s told from the perspective of a 10-year-old boy, Stan, who lives near the NASA in Houston, Texas. An older Stan narrates most of the story, sharing memories from his childhood. The coming of age tale intertwines stories from Stan’s childhood with scenes from the historic Apollo 11 moon landing. The story celebrates man on the moon while also offering social commentary on America at the time.
OLIVIA RODRIGO: DRIVING HOME 2 U is a documentary on Disney Plus recounting the memories of Olivia Rodrigo putting together her record-breaking debut album, SOUR. Rodrigo takes one last road trip from Salt Lake City, Utah to Los Angeles, including places where she began writing her debut album, to look back on her life from the success she has now. Rodrigo opens up about her emotions surrounding her heartbreak that led to writing most of the songs, as well as the struggles she encountered on the way to releasing the album.
Streaming on HBO Max, MOONSHOT is a romantic comedy, with a science fiction setting, about two polar opposite college students. Walt and Sophie are traveling to Mars to be with their significant others. Sophie pays the hefty million dollar fee. Walt doesn’t have the money. Also, he’s applied and been rejected 37 times by the Mars scholarship program. Walt latches onto Sophie, but she has nothing but disdain for a guy she repeatedly calls too stupid to have a right to go to Mars. Walt takes advantage of Sophie’s brief soft spot to help him get to the spaceship take-off site. He then becomes her stowaway. Sophie begins to see winning qualities in this otherwise average ne’er do well. However, is it enough to steer Sophie away from her perfectly planned, but not affirming, life?
DARKEST HOUR is a suspenseful, patriotic historical drama about British Prime Minister Winston Churchill’s handling of the “miracle” at Dunkirk during World War II. The movie opens with Churchill becoming Prime Minister in May, 1940...
THE LOST CITY stars Sandra Bullock as Loretta Sage, a romance novelist who goes on a book tour to promote her latest book. While on the first leg of her tour, a wealthy man named Abigail Fairfax has Loretta kidnapped. Fairfax wants to find a precious headdress on a lost island and needs her help to translate a clue. Alan, Loretta’s cover model, comes to her aid with the help of an ex-Navy Seal turned meditation devotee. However, there are multiple bumps along the way, and Alan and Loretta find themselves going forward alone against the bad guys.
THE MULLIGAN is a special two-day Fathom release. Paul McCallister is a big-shot businessman who’s estranged from his wife and son so he can pursue business and golf. At a charity golf tournament, Paul loses his temper. A tournament organizer introduces Paul to Will Dun. Golfers have nicknamed Will the “Old Pro.” Will takes Paul under his wing and mentors him on golf, and, more importantly, on life. Paul’s heart begins to change, but will the change be a lasting one?
THE DEVIL YOU KNOW is a crime drama involving a middle-class black family in San Diego. Marcus is a recovering alcoholic trying to get his life back on track after prison because a man suffered a brain aneurysm several months after Marcus punched him. He’s looking forward to starting a bus driving job and hopes to redeem his life, with his family’s love and support. However, he learns that one of his three brothers may be involved with two criminals implicated in the brutal murder of two white parents. Marcus tries to do the right thing by outing the two criminals, but his efforts backfire.
THE OUTFIT is an entertaining crime thriller. Leonard is the meticulous English owner of a small tailor shop in Chicago in 1956. Regrettably, the local gangsters in his neighborhood are using his shop as a drop box to contact the Outfit, the organization that runs all the major gangs in the country. The local gangsters discover they have a mole in their gang who’s working with the FBI. One night, the head gangster’s right-hand man, Francis, and his wounded son, Richie, show up at the tailor shop with the latest tape. The situation gets complicated, and Leonard has to think fast before Francis puts a bullet in him.
REBA MCENTIRE: MY CHAINS ARE GONE is a special airing on UPtv. It features three-time Grammy® winning country music superstar Reba McEntire and songs from her latest gospel album. The show also features classic hymns and special guests like Tricia Yearwood, Kelly Clarkson, ‘The Isaacs’, Reba’s sisters and mother, and more. There’s also an interview with Christian music legend Bill Gaither where McEntire shares her Christian faith, her love for family and her love for gospel music. She and Gaither also discuss the connection between country and gospel music, her rise to fame, and the Christian faith that motivates Reba’s life and career. Reba performs at Nashville’s historic Ryman Auditorium & Clementine Hall.
RESCUED BY RUBY is a comedy on Netflix based on a true story about an aspiring K9 officer who adopts a shelter dog named Ruby to help achieve his professional goals and provide for his growing family. Ruby is rambunctious and brings some stress to Danny’s family life. However, all she needs is some tender loving care. There’s an upcoming test to get into the K9 unit, though. So, Ruby and Danny have their work cut out for them. Will they be ready in time?
THE WEDDING FIX is a romantic comedy on UPtv. Gwen, a local television host, is going through a breakup. At the same time, she agrees to help her best friend with her big wedding plans, which proves to be the perfect distraction. Uptight, over-planner Gwen must work together with the go-with-the-flow best man, Josh, to pull off the perfect wedding for their friends. Can the two successfully work together? Will their relationship turn into something more?
LUCY AND DESI is a front row seat on Amazon Prime into the rise and fall of TV sitcom icon Lucille Ball and her husband, Desi Arnaz. Featuring stories from their children, friends and producers who knew them best, viewers get an inside scoop into the highs and lows of both their lives. The documentary tells an incredible story of how they grew from poor starving artists to filming a TV pilot and owning the biggest independent entertainment company.
MY BEST FRIEND ANNE FRANK is a historical, biographical drama on Netflix about the lives of Anne Frank and her best friend, Hannah. The movie begins with the girls playing a game in the early days of World War II in the Netherlands. Anne and Hannah promise to be friends and do everything together. However, when Hitler cracks down on the Jews living in the Netherlands, they get separated and eventually wind up together in a Nazi labor camp, where Anne is starving to death.
TYSON’S RUN is an inspiring sports drama, based on the true story of an autistic boy who decides to run a marathon. Tyson’s mother and father are worried about Tyson when he wants to go to public school to learn algebra. Tyson’s father, Bobby, is the head coach of the football team and is recognized as one of the best coaches in the league. However, his tendency towards sports makes him not see eye to eye with Tyson. After attending school, Tyson meets a runner and is determined to prove to his father, and those around him, that he can win an upcoming marathon.
THE BATMAN is another version of the famous comic book hero. It stars Robert Pattinson as the caped crusader, aka Bruce Wayne. A mysterious masked man calling himself The Riddler murders Gotham City’s Mayor, accusing him of being part of rampant city-wide corruption. Riddler is consumed by revenge against the rich and powerful. He claims the corruption is led by the city’s head mobster and drug lord, Carmine Falcone. The Riddler enlists Batman’s aid in exposing the corruption, but he murders two other city officials. Batman and Lieutenant Jim Gordon are helped by a female cat burglar to get evidence against Falcone and capture the Riddler.
HOPE LIVES follows a counselor named Pete Ryan, who starts an after-school anti-bullying program at a high school. Six victims of bullying join the after-school program for bullying victims. The six students begin to warm up to Mr. Ryan, but their relationship with one another is full of hostility. After weeks of activities and talking with Mr. Ryan, though, the group begins to resolve their conflicts and prejudices about one another. Mr. Ryan is working on overcoming tragedy in his past, but he finds joy in helping the students. However, when Mr. Ryan makes a shocking discovery, it may be time for the students to intercede and remind him of what truly matters.
AFTER YANG stars Colin Farrell in a slow-moving science fiction drama that’s also on Showtime. He plays Jake, a father who sets off trying to fix the family’s android companion, Yang, who suddenly quit working. Jake and his wife, Kyra, had bought the Asian looking android to teach Chinese culture to their adopted young Chinese daughter, Mika. Jake’s investigation enables him to have Yang’s memory cube extracted. A museum expert in artificial intelligence helps Jake to examine Yang’s memories. During that process, Jake discovers surprising facts about Yang and his previous owners.
GIFTED HANDS: THE BEN CARSON STORY is one of the best made-for-television movies ever produced. It is the true story of a black child raised by a single mother who encouraged him to use his God-given gifts. He rises from being a poor student, to the top of his class. Upon hearing the story of a missionary doctor and decides to pursue a career in medicine. He becomes a world-renowned neurosurgeon. Repeatedly, Ben has to overcome prejudice to be able to let the gifts God has given him blossom.
TURNING RED is an animated Pixar comedy on Disney+. Set in 2002, the story is about Mei, a precocious, independent 13-year-old girl living in Toronto, Canada. Mei chafes under the watchful eye of her strict Chinese mother. Mei asks her mother if she can attend a popular boy band’s concert in Toronto with her four friends, but her mother says no. The next morning, Mei magically transforms into a large red panda, a curse that runs in her mother’s family. Mei decides to use the red panda to secretly earn the money to go to the concert, against her mother’s wishes.
A BRIDESMAID IN LOVE is a romance on UPtv. Cate is a professional bridesmaid and wedding columnist. Matt Davenport works in finance in New York. They’re childhood friends and reconnect when Cate helps with Matt’s sister’s wedding. Meanwhile, Cate and her boyfriend take a break from one another. Matt wrestles with starting a new career path. Cate wonders about her career. Will they find true love pursuing their dreams and helping out with the sister’s wedding?
A HONEYMOON TO REMEMBER is a romantic comedy airing on UPtv. An ambitious, controlling woman named Ava has her entire life planned out to the last detail. However, when her fiancé calls off their wedding, her plans are ruined. Ava and her supportive sister decide to go on the honeymoon trip without her fiancé, but things get more complicated at the resort. Ava meets an attractive man named Kyle, and her fiancé Brett shows up unexpectedly after Ava declines to answer his phone calls. Ava must decide which relationship is worth her time. Maybe finding true love is outside of Ava’s control?
PEACE RIVER follows the life of cowboy Casey Shane as he discovers what it is to be a cowboy from his loving grandfather, Bo. Casey grows up alongside Maria, and they both become skilled rodeo cowboys. Casey becomes a champion rodeo cowboy in high school but wants to continue his family’s legacy of serving in the military. Maria says she will wait for him to return and attends college. However, when Casey returns from the War on Terror after 9/11, he could sever his longtime relationships with family, the love of his life and God. Casey must decide whether or not to trust God and the wise words of his grandfather or continue down his own broken path.
MAN OF GOD tells about the Greek Orthodox Bishop Nektarios of Aegina. In 1891, Nektarios is unjustly slandered, falsely accused and convicted without a trial, then removed from his duties as Bishop of Cairo in Egypt. Exiled to Greece, he lives in poverty as he continues to give Gospel charity to everyone. With pressure from church benefactors, his name is finally cleared. Nektarios becomes director of a school for seminarians and secular students. He then founds a monastery for nuns on the island of Aegina. Throughout his story, Nektarios is met with opposition and hatred at every turn. However, he returns this ill treatment from other church leaders with the Gospel values of love, patience, kindness, and self-denial.
In TALL GIRL 2, a Netflix comedy, Jodi Kreyman is the “tall girl” who previously stood up to high school bullies who tried to make her feel badly about herself for being so tall. Now, Jodi’s gained some popularity in school. She decides to try out for the school play. She’s also coming up on the three-month anniversary with her boyfriend, Jack. However, when she lands the lead in the play, she’s burdened with a small voice in her mind that casts doubt on her abilities. This leads to problems in her relationship. Will Jodi be able to drown out the bully living in her own head?
A WEDDING TO REMEMBER is a romantic comedy on UPtv. Olivia runs a community garden and wants to meet a guy the organic way. Brian is a nonprofit housing developer and thinks dating apps are not a good way to meet a lifelong partner. Their paths cross when Brian’s nonprofit is taking over Olivia’s property to build affordable housing for the community. That weekend, they’re both in a wedding and can’t avoid one another. Will they make it through the wedding without developing feelings for each other?
KIMI is an intense thriller on HBO Max. Angela Childs is a tech worker with agoraphobia who finds recorded evidence of two hired assassins killing the mistress of her company’s married CEO. This forces her to leave her apartment to seek justice. However, the lead hitman connected to the two killers tracks Angela’s movements as she tries to contact the FBI. The CEO pays them to kidnap Angela and make her murder look like a burglary gone wrong.
THE TINDER SWINDLER is a Netflix documentary. Two women share their story of being conned by a man named Simon, who told them he’s the son of a billionaire and owns a diamond company. The women fall in love with Simon and his extravagant lifestyle, but Simon uses them for his personal gain and cheats them out of thousands of dollars. The two women team up to expose Simon’s wrongdoings to the public. Their stories unearth many other victims, including his current girlfriend, who also lent Simon thousands of dollars.
BREAK EVERY CHAIN is based on the true story of West Virginia police officer Jonathan Hickory. As a first-responder, Jonathan is shocked by what he sees and turns to alcohol and anger toward God. While his career as an officer advances, Jonathan‘s depression worsens. Jonathan is angry at God and begins to neglect his wife and child. Tragedy strikes close to home when his wife suffers a miscarriage. Broken and lost, Jonathan continues to forsake God and turns to alcoholism instead of caring for his broken family. Jonathan risks losing everything he holds dear unless he turns to faith and surrenders to the God he’s hated all his life.
SAFE SPACE is a TV thriller from Lifetime TV. A woman named Lila fights back when her home is invaded by two robbers threatening her autistic son, Ian, who witnessed a murder they committed. Lila runs to the home’s high-tech safe room with Ian and tries to figure out how to make it through the dangerous situation. The two lead criminals make one stupid move after another as they botch their attempts to break into the safe room where the mother and son are hiding.
A SPARK STORY is a new documentary movie on Disney+ about the creative process behind Disney’s SparkShorts movies. The documentary focuses on two Pixar Animation employees, Aphton Corbin and Louis Gonzales, as they try to complete a SparkShort in the span of six months. The movie highlights their different approaches to story, animation and directing. The two directors work to tell deeply personal stories in a way that appeals to the broadest audiences. They quickly realize it’s no easy feat, but they persevere in seeing their stories realized on the screen.
UNCHARTED is a rousing action adventure based on a video game. Nate Drake and his older brother, Sam, are obsessed with finding the lost gold allegedly hidden by explorer Ferdinand Magellan’s men 500 years ago. Sam left their Catholic orphanage years ago to search for the gold. Seasoned treasure hunter, Victor “Sully” Sullivan, recruits Nate to help him look for the gold. However, they must fend off a ruthless Spaniard and his henchmen, who will stop at nothing to get the gold.
THE WOLF AND THE LION opens with a young lady named Alma returning home because of her grandfather’s death. While walking in the forest, she discovers a small, crashed plane that was carrying a baby lion cub meant for a circus. The cub falls into her arms from a tree branch. When Alma takes it back home, a local wolf brings her baby pup to her house as well. Now, Alma feels responsible for the care of these two animals. However, it’s a bigger responsibility than she was expected, especially when she realizes she’s not the only one who wants them.
LAST LOOKS is a hardboiled mystery thriller in limited release about an off-the-grid, former police detective named Charlie Waldo. A former girlfriend, Lorena, comes to Waldo’s isolated trailer near a forest outside Los Angeles. She asks him to come to the city and help an expatriate British actor starring in a popular American TV series who’s accused of murdering his wife. Waldo refuses. However, when some thugs warn him off the case and Lorena turns up missing, Waldo travels to Hollywood to investigate the murder.
THE SKY IS EVERYWHERE is a romantic drama about a 17-year-old teenage girl with musical talent who’s still grieving the sudden death of her sister. Lennie Walker has lost her interest in music. However, she’s pulled out of her grief by a budding romance with Joe, a new male student in her high school’s music classes. Lennie’s complicated relationship with her sister’s equally devastated boyfriend, Toby, starts to affect Lennie and Joe’s new love.
MOONFALL is a science fiction thriller about a NASA official, a former astronaut and an amateur scientist who discover the moon is a hollow ark made by aliens. An evil artificial intelligence has altered the moon’s orbit to destroy the Earth and all of humanity. The military plans to nuke the moon as it enters the Earth’s atmosphere. However, the three heroes plan to take a space shuttle to the moon and use an EMP device to kill the artificial intelligence. They hope that will let the alien machinery inside the moon move the satellite back into place.
MARRY ME is a romantic comedy starring Jennifer Lopez and Owen Wilson. Kat is an international pop star. When she’s left at the altar, she impulsively marries a man in the audience named Charlie. They decide to spend time with each other to get to know one another, but also to help Kat’s publicity. Kat finds out Charlie doesn’t like fame and social media, and values family and the simple life. Will the two of them get along and truly commit to each other?
THE STORY OF LOVE is a romance movie airing on UPtv. An aspiring female author, Ruby Easton, goes on a writer’s retreat in Tahoe with the hope of landing a book deal. Woody, the hotel owner and manager in Tahoe, is tasked with planning outdoor activities for the writers. However, he’s skeptical about the week because he’s recently been through a breakup. When Ruby arrives, she’s reluctant to enjoy any of the planned activities. However, she finds that the escape the retreat provides might give her more inspiration than she expected.
HARMONY FROM THE HEART is a romance airing on the GAC Family Channel. A grad student named Violet wants a career as a music therapist. To graduate, Violet’s professor asks Violet to help rehabilitate her brother’s speech within two weeks, just in time for Valentine’s Day. When Violet arrives, her patient’s doctor is skeptical of her treatment methods and also happens to be the patient’s grandson. Will Violet be able to make her Valentine’s Day deadline and graduate on time? Or will she find more than just a degree in the process?
LOVE AT SKY GARDENS is a light romantic comedy streaming on the UP Faith & Family app. Deirdre and Marcus are dissatisfied with their current jobs and look to expand their careers by doing what they want – designing rooftop gardens and party planning. After the two don’t land new jobs, Marcus pitches the idea of creating a rooftop garden for a high-profile wedding, but he’ll need Deirdre’s help. Can they pull off the wedding and make their six-week deadline?
THE CASE FOR CHRIST is the story of how Chicago Tribune journalist Lee Strobel set out to disprove Christianity when his wife, Leslie, became a Christian and challenged Lee’s atheist beliefs. Leslie starts going to church with a Christian nurse who saved their daughter’s life at a restaurant. When Leslie tells Lee about her newfound interest in Christianity, Lee gets angry. A Christian colleague urges Lee to investigate the evidence for and against Christ’s resurrection. So, Lee does exactly that. There are some bumps along the way, however, that threaten his marriage.
ARMY OF THIEVES is a prequel, streaming on Netflix, to the zombie thriller ARMY OF THE DEAD. It follows the comic adventures of German safecracker Ludwig Dieter. A mysterious woman, Gwendolyn, recruits Dieter to join her gang of thieves to rob the world’s most complex vaults. Ludwig finds himself drawn to Gwendoline. This engenders a jealous rivalry with fellow team member Brandon Cage while they stay one step ahead of an Interpol agent determined to stop them.
ACTION PACK is an animated science fiction series on Netflix. The program features the adventures of four children who attend a superhero school, which is more of a well-funded homeschool co-op, and use their superpowers to help their community. Each episode of season one involves two 12-minute mini-episodes with a “fun fact” in between that usually revolves around explaining one of the main characters’ powers. Each mini-episode has some sort of dilemma that the four children, Treena, Clay, Watts, and Wren, must use teamwork and friendship to overcome. Most episodes wrap up in a tight bow by the end, though some will tease a larger narrative.
DIARY OF A WIMPY KID is an animated adaptation on Disney Plus of the illustrated book by Jeff Kinney. Greg Heffley is a scrawny, ambitious boy who worries about going through his first year of middle school. Thankfully, Greg has his best friend, Rowley and doesn’t have to go into the scary new year alone. However, he worries that Rowley is stuck in his childish ways and wonders if he should follow his older brother’s advice and cut ties before the school year starts. Greg writes down his adventures and mishaps in a journal as he and Rowley navigate bullies, curfews and the dreaded “cheese touch.”
In THE ROYAL TREAMENT, a sweet, sassy hairstylist in New York City sweeps a privileged prince off his feet. Justice-driven Isabella “Izzy” helps her mom and grandmother run the family beauty salon. Prince Thomas of Lavania, a pampered royal is in New York for his engagement and needs a hair stylist to manage his unruly hair. The prince appears at the salon for a haircut. Izzy arm-in-arm with her salon friends, Destiny and Lola, go to Lavania for their wedding assignment. However, they discover that things are not going to be easy. Their adventures in Lavania unite the dreams of both Izzy and Prince Thomas.
HOME TEAM is a delightful family comedy on Netflix. Sean Payton, the coach of the New Orleans Saints, is at the top of his game. His team just won the Super Bowl. However, he’s suspended in 2012 when he’s accused of paying his players to injure players on other teams. Sean decides to spend time with his son, Connor and sees that Connor’s football team needs lots of help. However, Connor isn’t pleased to see his dad, because Sean hasn’t spent much time with Connor since Sean’s divorce. Will Sean be able to coach Connor’s ragtag group of middle schoolers to become a winning team? Will Connor forgive his father?
THE ICE AGE ADVENTURES OF BUCK WILD is an animated fantasy streaming on Disney Plus. The two possum brothers from the ICE AGE movies, Crash and Eddie, set out to find a place of their own, against their sister, Ellie’s, advice. They decide to join Buck Wild in the Lost World, the wacky one-eyed weasel. Buck has established peace and harmony among the mammals and dinosaurs at the waterhole. Eventually, the brothers join Buck to help him stop a power-mad dinosaur and his velociraptor army from destroying the harmony and taking over the Lost World.
THE SONG TO MY HEART is a cute romantic comedy that follows two unlikely souls as they come together and create something beautiful. Bonnie Highstreet, a young poet in a small town, is trying to get her tea shop up and running. One day during a poetry reading, she meets Ryder Jameson, an up-and-coming young musician who can’t seem to find the right words for his melodies. Ryder needs to come up with some lyrics for the songs in his new album. So, he and Bonnie strike a deal. If Ryder is willing to help her tea shop get some publicity, she’ll help him write some song lyrics. The two end up coming through for each other, and a romance starts to blossom.
LOVE & WHERE TO FIND IT is a lighthearted romantic comedy airing on UPtv. Leena, who owns an independent coffee shop, runs into Jonah, the owner of a big-city coffee chain that moved in across the street. Through her store and excellent baking skills, Leena, with her best friend and roommate, Ava, feel like they help build a loving community. However, when Jonah’s shop moves in across the street, Leena fears for her shop, her livelihood and the community. Despite her dislike for Jonah’s business, Leena can’t help but be attracted to Jonah, who shows her nothing but kindness. Can Leena put aside her reservations and see the true Jonah?
DEATH ON THE NILE is the second movie version of an Agatha Christie mystery. Belgian sleuth Hercule Poirot’s Egyptian vacation aboard a river steamer is interrupted when a rich heiress, Linnet Ridgeway Doyle, tells him she’s afraid of nearly everyone in her wedding party on the boat. Linnet married her best friend, Jackie’s, fiancé, a handsome man named Simon Doyle. Now, Jackie’s stalking the couple, trying to steal back Simon. When Linnet turns up dead, Jackie appears to have a water-tight alibi. So, Poirot’s suspicions fall on the members of Linnet’s wedding party. They include Linnet’s godmother and her nurse, Linnet’s finance manager, a jazz singer’s daughter whom Linnet knew in college, and a doctor who’s one of Linnet’s former suitors.
THE KING’S DAUGHTER is a fantastic adventure fantasy. The French king, Louis XIV, is obsessed with his mortality and the country’s future. He asks the royal physician to help him obtain the key to immortality. The royal physician believes mermaids contain a force that grants everlasting life. Louis is doubtful, but he commissions a young sea captain to search the seas for a mermaid. The captain brings back a female to the King’s court. Meanwhile, King Louis orders his orphaned daughter, Marie-Josèphe, brought to Versailles. Marie establishes a connection with the mermaid and falls for the sea captain. Together, they try to save the mermaid’s life.
REDEEMING LOVE tells about a woman forced into prostitution at a young age, but rescued by a Christian man, who shows her true love. Angel grows up in prostitution and has been abused by every man she’s met. When Michael, a farmer, calls to God for a wife, he believes God tells him to make Angel his wife. One day, Angel is beaten. Michael hears God telling him about it and runs to her side. He pays off the brothel and takes Angel home. After Angel recovers, she runs from Michael. Will Angel ever trust Michael? Will she come to God?
BELLE is an incredible, true story about a mixed race, illegitimate woman trying to find her place in the world, so she can help change society during the 18th Century. Dido Elizabeth Belle is a mixed race illegitimate girl taken in by her Great Uncle, Lord Mansfield. Lord Mansfield is a renowned judge with wealth and prestige. Mansfield has also taken in Dido’s cousin, Elizabeth. Dido hears of a lawsuit where the worth of slaves is in question. After meeting a passionate lawyer, she works with him to fight for the worth and dignity of each person.
THE 355 is an intense spy thriller. Three female agents from America, Britain and Germany, Mace, “Deej” and Marie, team up with a Colombian psychologist to stop a powerful high-tech cyber weapon from getting sold to the highest bidder. The women manage to bring some justice to one villain, but they must go under cover to escape prison. Eventually, after many twists and betrayals, their journey leads to an underground auction in Shanghai using a public auction for cover. Can they retrieve the weapon or destroy it? Will they survive?
SHADOW IN THE CLOUD is an action horror movie about a female World War II pilot traveling with a top-secret package on a B-17 Flying Fortress. The crew is suspicious of the last-minute passenger but must go along with her to stay on schedule. With no room on the plane, Maude Garrett rides in the belly gun turret of the plane. Communicating by radio, tensions rise between the crew and Garrett as they wonder what her top-secret mission entails. The all-male crew berates Garrett with sexist comments and excessive crass dialogue. However, the crew’s suspicions are forgotten when a monster starts to attack.
LOVE ON THE ROAD is a romance on UPtv about the female host of a restaurant makeover show. Abby Brooks is ordered by her food network boss to take her restaurant makeover show to a small town in rural Minnesota. However, when she gets there, she learns the location is just a small family diner. Also, the young, widowed owner, Tom, knows nothing about the arrangement. His aunt submitted the diner’s name because she thinks Tom isn’t reaching his full potential as a chef. Abby overcomes Tom’s objections to the makeover when his daughter, Claire, takes a liking to Abby and agrees with Tom’s aunt about the need for a makeover. Will Tom also surrender to the call of romance?
FISHING FOR LOVE is an endearing UPtv romance set in a small fishing town called Mystic Bay. Kendall is an ambitious architect from Seattle. Her brother, Billy, convinces her to come home to Mystic Bay for the annual Big Catch Festival. The festival is a memorable part of Kendall’s childhood. So, she agrees to visit, hoping her visit will spark her imagination for a project she is doing. Kendall loves being home, but quickly notices that a newcomer named Zack is having trouble fitting in with the tight-knit community. Despite her busy schedule, Kendall agrees to help Zack feel like a resident at Mystic Bay. However, when Kendall’s plan collapse, will Zack make her regret her visit, or will she fall in love, hook, line, and sinker?
LOVE’S SECOND CHANCE follows a passionate fashion stylist named Rose who lives in New York. However, Rose must return to her hometown after inheriting her grandmother’s vintage dress shop. Rose finds out that she is not the only one to have recently returned home. She bumps into her high-school crush, Cole Murphy, who moved back home from London. Rose and her best friend come up with a plan to give clothes back to the community, which involves fixing up an old camping trailer. Rose finds out Cole works on cars, and the two agree to make the camper work. At first, Rose can’t stand Cole, but they reminisce about their past, and Rose begins to wonder if she has a crush on Cole all over again.
Episode One of SUPERMAN AND LOIS is a gripping science fiction drama that follows Clark Kent and Lois Lane’s relationship after they wed and welcomes twin boys. As Superman, Clark often misses important life events for his sons. When his mother dies, Lois confronts Clark and demands he put family first. The family moves from Metropolis to Smallville so they can enjoy the slower pace. The couple discovers one of their sons has inherited Clark’s Kryptonian abilities. Clark realizes he must step up to the plate to mentor both his sons before they leave for college.
BRAZEN is a mystery thriller streaming on Netflix. The story begins when Grace, a crime novelist, pays a much-needed visit to her sister, Kathleen, who’s going through a divorce and fighting for custody of her son. However, shortly after Grace’s arrival, Kathleen is found murdered. Grace soon learns of a secret life that Kathleen was living as a webcam performer, soliciting clients who have a desire for sadomasochism style videos. Grace convinces the local police to let her use her expertise to help them track down the killer, who begins a killing spree. Eventually, she puts her own life in danger.
THE TIGER RISING is an adventure movie based on the New York Times best-selling book by Kate DiCamillo. The story follows the adventures of 12-year-old Rob Horton as he and his father struggle to make a new life for themselves at a motel in Florida. Their lives turned upside down when Rob’s mother died unexpectedly. However, Rob holds on tight to the memories of his mother and everything she gave him, like a flowing imagination. While his father is loving, he’s stressed trying to make ends meet, so Rob has lots of free time. Horton finds a tiger in a cage in the forest behind his motel and is faced with a moral dilemma. Should he set the tiger free?
“Trust” is the series finale of Netflix’s terrific reboot of Irwin Allen’s LOST IN SPACE. The evil robots are set to invade the human colony on Alpha Centrauri, but Will Robinson is bedridden because of the new heart he received after the evil robot leader destroyed his old heart. Meanwhile, Will’s parents are helping restore the colony’s shields while Will, his sisters and other children travel to safety underground. At the last moment, the robot ship slips through the shields but crashes. It has a weapon that can defeat and destroy the colony. Will risks his life to alert Judy and Penny to stop the robots from using the weapon. Penny figures out a way to overcome some of the robots, but will it be enough to stop the evil robots?
In Netflix’s original series SWEET TOOTH, a horrible plague has swept the world. This plague kills off many of the world’s population, but humans born after the epidemic are born with animal-like features and are immune to the virus. The story follows Gus, a human-animal hybrid, and his journey from the home his father built to keep the world away. His mission is to find out what happened to his mother. Along the way, he encounters friends and foes as they help or hinder his quest. Gus’ understanding of the world and how to function in this new society undergoes changes as the first season progresses.
LILIES OF THE FIELD is a wonderful, uplifting drama about Homer, a traveling black man who’s handy with practically any tool. He stops to get water for his car at the retreat of a small group of German nuns. The stern head nun, Mother Maria, believes Homer’s presence is an answer to her prayer that God send someone to build them a chapel. She tries to get Homer to acquiesce. However, Mother Maria doesn’t have the money to afford the labor or the materials. Will her prayers be answered?
SLEEPING BEAUTY is Walt Disney’s classic 1959 animated fairytale. It follows a princess named Aurora who’s cursed by an evil fairy named Maleficent. Upon Aurora’s 16th birthday, she will prick her finger on the spindle of a spinning wheel and die. However, thanks to a good fairy named Meriwether, Princess Aurora won’t die but will fall into a deep sleep until true love’s kiss awakens her. Now, it’s up to the good fairies to keep Aurora out of harm’s way. Will they succeed in protecting the young royal?
In the new IMDb TV series LEVERAGE: REDEMPTION, Sophie has to grapple with her husband’s death. Her old friends, who worked with her husband, inspire her to rejoin their efforts in seeking justice for victims. She reluctantly agrees, and the crew springs back into action without a pause. Along the way, they acquire Harry Wilson, a corporate lawyer who wants to redeem himself for the way he enabled crooks instead of bringing them to justice. Also, Hardison introduces the crew to his younger sister who must fill her brother’s tech-savvy philanthropic shoes. Each episode brings a new adventure as Wilson rights his wrongs, repairs his relationship with his estranged daughter and often saves the crew from destruction.
SPIDER-MAN: NO WAY HOME is a wild ride. As the movie opens, Peter and his friends, MJ and Ned, are suffering the consequences of Mysterio’s lies from the last SPIDER-MAN movie. Because of the controversy Mysterio created, none of them are accepted into any colleges, including their first choice, MIT. Always thinking about his friends, Peter asks Dr. Strange for a spell to make everyone forget Peter Parker is Spider-Man. However, the spell goes wrong and starts bringing supervillains from other universes into Peter’s world.
A JOURNAL FOR JORDAN is a moving drama about a New York Times reporter telling her son how she fell in love with his father. Dana Canedy’s father introduces Dana to First Sergeant Charles King at a family holiday dinner. Romance blossoms, but, after 9/11, Charles is sent to Iraq. After seeing terrible fighting there on TV, Dana phones Charles and wants to have a baby with him. They decide to get married after their son, Jordan, is born. However, seven months after Jordan’s birth, Charles is killed in Iraq. When Jordan gets older, Dana gives him a journal his father wrote to him and talks to Jordan about his father.
THE KING’S MAN tells an elaborate, epic action adventure story. After the Duke of Oxford is widowed in 1902, he raises his son with the help of his assistant, a former African solider, and his maid, Polly. The Duke is friends with the King of England and the King’s top military advisor, Lord Kitchener. When World War I breaks out, the Duke uses a private spy agency he’s developed with Polly and his assistant, Shola, to help England and its allies. However, they discover there’s a secret criminal cabal working behind the scenes to make sure England is destroyed.
BEING THE RICARDOS follows Lucille Ball and Desi Arnaz and the production of the I LOVE LUCY television show. Lucy has been accused of being a communist, while Desi has been accused of being unfaithful in their marriage. When the sponsors and network are worried the show will not continue because of the accusations, the team must find a plan to reach the audience even through the midst of trails. Tensions are high, everyone has some sort of problem, and there’s very little happiness being on the set of I LOVE LUCY.
THE TENDER BAR is a well-acted drama about a 9-year-old boy abandoned by his father and living with his mother at his grandparents’ house on Long Island. His mother’s bar-owning brother, Charlie, becomes a surrogate father to J R as he grows up, graduates from Yale and sets out for New York City to be a writer. After working at the New York Times but failing to snag a permanent job, J R decides to track down his undependable father to get some closure.
THE MATRIX RESURRECTIONS is the third sequel to the hit movie THE MATRIX. In the new movie, the machines have resurrected Neo and his beloved, Trinity, and trapped them in a new Matrix world. A new machine entity is now controlling the machines and has broken the peace that Neo established between humanity and the machine city. Neo manages to free himself from the new Matrix. With help from surviving remnants of humanity, he must rescue Trinity and save humanity from the new treat.
RUMBLE, an animated comedy streaming on Paramount Plus, tells a funny, uplifting story of a 17 year-old aspiring coach, Winnie, and her underdog monster wrestler, Steve. Winnie’s the daughter of a deceased championship coach. Steve is the son of a deceased champion. Fate, and a desperate need to save their fathers’ legacies and the whole town, bring them together. The reigning champ and scariest monster of all, Tentacular, is obsessed with destroying the town’s wrestling arena and erasing all memories of previous champions. To save the arena from being turned into a parking lot, Winnie must train Steve to defeat the scary champ.
C’MON C’MON stars Joaquin Phoenix as a radio journalist named Johnny whose sister asks him to take care of her son, Jesse, in Los Angeles. Johnny agrees, but his work requires him to travel, so he takes his nephew with him across the country. This is Jesse’s first experience away from his mother and outside of Los Angeles. Jesse’s energy, curiosity and authenticity catch his uncle Johnny off guard. Johnny must manage his job, console his sister and look after Jesse, who has endless amounts of questions, theories and energy.
In A HOLIDAY HOMECOMING, the residents of Hope, New York open their homes for foster children because their home for children burned down just before Christmas. A young man named Jesse is reluctant to help. He lives with his dad and is dating a girl named Maggie, who challenges him to open his heart. When Jesse gets home, he finds his father has already taken in a boy named David, and his sister, Abigail. Being an only child, Jesse is nervous about having them, but he agrees to step out of his comfort zone and show Christ’s love to Abigail and David.
GOD’S NOT DEAD: WE THE PEOPLE is the fourth in the GOD’S NOT DEAD franchise. It follows Pastor Dave and a group of Christian homeschooling parents who receive a court summons after a politically correct government inspection of their homeschooling co-op. The group trusts in God’s will and heads to Washington, D.C. to fight for their freedom to home educate their children. They face a Congressional hearing that could determine religious liberty for decades to come. Ultimately, Dave realizes he’s fighting for much more than just the rights of homeschooling, but the foundations of faith, liberty and unity that built America.
CRY MACHO stars Clint Eastwood as Mike Milo, a one-time rodeo star and retired rodeo horse breeder and trainer. A year after his friend and boss fires him, the boss asks Mike to travel to Mexico City and take back his 13-year-old boy, Raphael, from the boy’s criminal, alcoholic mother. Mike convinces Raphael to come to Texas, but the mother sends a henchman after them. So, they take the back roads. Eventually, they hide out in a sleepy little border town. They befriend a widowed woman who owns a small restaurant and takes care of her orphaned grandchildren. Meanwhile, Mike helps a local rancher train wild horses, and Raphael learns to ride.
THE JESUS MUSIC is a documentary taking a historical look at Contemporary Christian Music. It includes interviews from many major figures in Christian music. The movie starts with the beginnings of Jesus Music in the late 1960s and early 1970s. Mega stars Amy Grant and Michael W. Smith discuss their encounter with the first Jesus Music album, produced by artists from Calvary Chapel in Costa Mesa, California. In 1972, Jesus Music got a huge endorsement from the Reverend Billy Graham, who spoke to 200,000 people at a Jesus Music festival in Dallas, Texas. The rest of the documentary interviews other major stars from the 1980s, 1990s and the last 20 years.
QUEENPINS is a crime comedy about two women in suburban Phoenix who start a multimillion dollar coupon scam. They get a married couple at a coupon printing plant in Mexico to send them the overruns of free coupons that usually get destroyed. They then sell free coupons for a discount online. Soon, the women are making money hand over fist. However, the regional manager of a small grocery store chain uncovers the fraud. Eventually, he’s teamed up with a postal investigator to find the women and bring them to justice.
TURNER AND HOOCH: Diamonds Are Furever, the third episode of the Disney Plus series, finds Turner and Hooch solving another mystery. Turner and Hooch try to impress the “T-Squad” by trying to help bring down a fugitive before a diamond heist occurs. However, Hooch becomes captivated by a squeaky toy he finds during one chase. So, after a few embarrassing attempts, Turner is kicked from the case and tries to blame Hooch. Discovering once again that his dog is incredibly gifted, and teaming up with his friends, Turner manages to stop the diamond heist.
BAKE SQUAD is a cooking reality show on Netflix. It takes viewers on a sweet dessert experience with Chef Christina Tosi. Her four hand-selected dessert geniuses create culinary masterpieces for a client’s special event. In the first episode, the client is a mother of six boys who wants to make the birthday of two of her boys special. The clock ticks, and the contest between the four chefs begins.
A VINEYARD ROMANCE is a romantic drama airing on UPtv. Sam, short for Samantha, is a talented magazine writer looking for her big break, while she dreams of being a romance novelist. Life gets awkward for Sam when she’s assigned to cover a wedding in her small hometown, and the wedding happens to her ex-boyfriend, Liam’s, wedding. Sam and Liam didn’t break up on the best of terms, but they learn it was just a big misunderstanding. Will they rediscover the spark that first brought them together?
WORTH is a Netflix drama about the aftermath of the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon. Congress appoints renowned attorney and mediator Ken Feinberg to create a September 11 Victims’ Fund to compensate the victims’ families. With the help of his firm’s operations director, Feinberg creates a formula, but he must gain an 80% enrollment, or the plan will fail. A grieving widower dislikes Feinberg’s formula, because it doesn’t consider that all life is of equal value. At the “eleventh hour,” Feinberg only has 18% support. He must change his strategy, but how?
The CINDERELLA (2021) movie streaming on Amazon Prime is a modern re-telling of the classic fairy tale. It follows the original fairy tale’s plot, with modern-day twists. In this version, Cinderella has a talent for designing and making beautiful dresses. She longs to own her own dress shop. However, she lives in an old-fashioned kingdom that doesn’t allow women to do that. So, when Cinderella falls in love with Prince Robert at the ball, she refuses to marry him and ascend the throne because she’d rather become a famous dress designer.
THE STARLING follows the grief of two parents, Lilly and Jack Maynard, after their daughter’s death to Sudden Infant Death Syndrome. Lilly works at the local grocery store, while Jack lives at a rehab facility after a suicide attempt following their daughter’s death. Back at home, Lilly meets with a vet, who used to be a therapist for grief guidance but also answers pet care questions. Lily has an aggressive starling bird that keeps hurting her on her property. Eventually, Jack and Lilly must assess their lives and decide how to move forward.
SHANG-CHI AND THE LEGEND OF THE TEN RINGS is a comical action entry in Marvel’s Cinematic Universe. It introduces a Chinese superhero who ran away from his criminal father who trained him to be an assassin. The father uses 10 powerful arm rings to enlarge and run his criminal 10 Rings empire. Shang-Chi (“Shawng-Chee”) learns his widowed father is being deceived by a demonic, imprisoned “soul-eating” monster into thinking a mystical village guarding a magical land is holding his dead wife’s spirit prisoner. The father intends to destroy the village, free his mother’s soul and use the rings to bring Shang-Chi’s mother back to life.
SHOW ME THE FATHER is a wonderful, inspiring documentary. It tells six emotionally powerful stories about fatherhood. Four stories involve two football coaches who mentor four young men from broken families to become better men and better fathers. Another story tells how God performs a miracle in helping a man and his wife find the perfect daughter to adopt. A sixth story shows how an older man overcomes a serious bout with depression to bless his own three sons.
THE LOST LEONARDO is a documentary about finding, restoring, marketing, and selling an alleged “lost” painting of Jesus Christ by Leonardo Da Vinci. The once damaged painting is titled “Salvador Mundi,” or “Savior of the World.” The documentary details how the painting was found, then beautifully restored by a famous female art restorer. It shows how the painting was sold for about $80 to a shifty Swiss middleman, who procured it for a shifty Russian oligarch. The oligarch paid the middleman $127 million. Eventually, the painting is sold for a whopping $450 million at Christie’s auction house to Saudi Arabia’s Crown Prince.
ANGIE: LOST GIRLS is a harrowing drama about an American teenage girl’s abduction and sale into a Los Angeles sex trafficking ring. Angie is an average girl from a Christian home. Both her parents work overtime. They place the care and responsibility of their younger daughter on Angie. Craving attention from her parents, Angie falls prey to a sex trafficking scout she thinks is her boyfriend. The scout lures her into a sex-trafficking gang where she’s raped and beaten several times a day for money. Meanwhile, Angie’s parents are on a desperate search with local detectives to find their daughter. Angie does everything she can to stay alive, but will she ever be the same?
REMINISCENCE is a science fiction mystery thriller starring Hugh Jackman. Nick Banister works in Miami, Florida, where he and his assistant help people relive their best memories in a psychological exercise called the Reminiscence. One day, a woman named Mae comes to Nick’s office looking for help to find her keys. Later, Mae and Nick develop a steamy romantic relationship. Everything’s just fine until Mae disappears.
FLAG DAY is an impressionistic drama about the relationship between an unreliable, criminal dreamer and his daughter. Based on a true story and narrated by the daughter, the movie reveals the problematic relationship Jennifer Vogel had with her father, John. The story begins in 1975 when Jennifer was a young girl. John bought a farm he can’t afford, and her mother had problems with alcohol. John abandons the family to live with his younger girlfriend. For the next 20 years, Jennifer’s relationship with her father suffers, ending in tragedy.
In WHAT IF, Ben is a high-powered, very successful investment banker. His uncanny ability making deals is incisive and funny. To celebrate one big deal, Ben buys himself a new Mercedes. When he takes it for a spin, he ends up in his old hometown. There, he meets an angel who introduces him to life as it could have been if he had married his beloved Wendy and become a pastor 15 years ago as he planned. Suddenly, Ben finds himself with two daughters and the new pastor of the church. Ben preaches one of the worst sermons ever and makes a mess of everything. Slowly, he begins to understand what is worthwhile in life and what isn’t, but it may be too late.
SCHMIGADOON! is a satirical homage to classic movie musicals on Apple TV Plus. MOVIEGUIDE® examined the first two episodes of the series. In the story, a modern unmarried couple facing a relationship rut take a special couples hike. They wind up lost, and walk into a magical, musical land called Schmigadoon. A leprechaun tells them they can’t leave until they find their true love. This leads to an argument between them in the second episode, where they decide to break up and search for their true love among the townsfolk of Schmigadoon.
SWEET GIRL is a dramatic thriller on Netflix about a devoted family man who swears revenge on a pharmaceutical company that pulls a drug that could have saved his wife’s life. Left alone with his daughter and medical bills he can’t pay, Ray seeks justice. A journalist reveals he has proof the pharmaceutical company committed crimes. The journalist is killed in front of Ray and his daughter. This leads to several attempts on their lives because of the journalist’s information. On the run, the pair not only fight for justice; they also fight to stay alive.
BECKETT is an intense thriller on Netflix about an American tourist named Beckett whose girlfriend is killed in a car crash after he falls asleep at the wheel while vacationing in Greece. Beckett finds himself relentlessly pursued by corrupt police officers and a ruthless double agent without knowing why. Convinced that all Greek police are corrupt, Beckett also learns of a young boy, the son of an unpopular Greek leader, who’s allegedly been kidnapped by a rebel group. Beckett realizes the boy is the same person he saw immediately after his crash. He believes his only chance for safety is to make it to the American embassy at all costs.
DESTINATION MARFA is a supernatural drama about four friends traveling home with a mysterious hitchhiker after a weekend trip. They stumble upon Marfa, a small and strange town. They begin to experience paranormal, spiritual events happening, from bodiless voices to gypsies appearing to tell them their fate. The four friends must unravel the mystery of Marfa while discussing what their future may hold.
PAW PATROL: THE MOVIE takes the beloved rescue pups of the popular animated TV series from quiet Adventure Bay to daunting Adventure City. The selfish, dog-disliking mayor is changing the city to fit his comforts, not the good of the people he serves. For example, he sets his office on top of the highest tower, which doesn’t bode well because there’s a nasty storm in the air. To top it off, Chase, the police dog and traffic cop, has residual fear of the city. Also, dogs keep disappearing from the streets. Will the Paw Patrol be up to the task?
CODA is a well-made, touching drama. Ruby is the only hearing person in her deaf family and has spent her whole life interpreting for them. Every day, around three am, she wakes up to go on the fishing boat with her deaf father and brother to fish. Ruby decides to enter the school choir. Encouraged by her teacher, she discovers she has a natural talent and loves to sing. Will Ruby be able to go her own way? Will her family be able to stand on their own without her?
MONSTERS AT WORK is a new animated comedy series on Disney Plus about dealing with life on the job in the world of Monstropolis. Tyler Tuskman, a recent graduate of the scaring school at Monsters University, starts work at Monsters, Inc. However, he discovers that, instead of scarers to create energy, they’re now using laughter. They send Tyler to work with a weird group of misfits in the Monsters Inc. Facilities Team or MIFT. Tyler must learn to work with others while he trains to be a jokester for the Laugh Floor. Meanwhile, Mike and Sully learn the difficulties of leadership and running a company.
VIVO is an animated musical on Netflix. Vivo is a small ring-tailed mammal in Cuba who performs alongside Andres, an elderly musician and Vivo’s best friend. Vivo is used to his small world, when Andrés receives a letter from Marta, an old singing partner and the love of his life. Andrés shows Vivo a song he wrote for Marta, but never had the courage to show her. Vivo feels his perfect life’s in jeopardy. However, Andrés dies of old age before he’s able to see Marta and tell her his true feelings. Vivo vows to get his friend’s final message to Marta in Miami, Florida. At Andrés’ funeral, he meets a relative of Andrés. Will the unlikely duo make it to Marta before it’s too late?
In Episodes Three and Four of THE MYSTERIOUS BENEDICT, streaming on Disney Plus, the four children continue spying on The Institute for their mentor, the brilliant scientist Nicholas Benedict. They discover Benedict’s long-lost twin brother runs the school they infiltrated. This revelation leads to great distress on Benedict’s part. Meanwhile, Reynie and Sticky try to earn the right to become “messengers,” with more freedom to roam the island, while the two girls struggle in school. Also, the children learn that Benedict and his adult friends secretly watching the island are scheduled to have their memories erased.
TURNER & HOOCH: “A Good Day to Dog Hard” on Disney Plus continues the adventures of Scott Turner and his slobbering K-9 partner, Hooch. Turner and Hooch are stuck babysitting Kaya, the daughter of an Olympic Committee Chairman. Terrorists take over the hotel where Turner is guarding Kaya. They take the hotel staff, the Olympic committee and two of Turner’s marshal friends hostage. While trying to protect Kaya, Turner and Hooch need to stop the terrorists and get everyone out safely. Turner relies on Hooch’s “playing” to his advantage.
RIDLEY JONES is an animated TV series streaming on Netflix. It follows the fantastic adventures of a young girl who lives in a museum that comes to life at night. Ridley hopes to take over the family tradition of her mother and grandmother. Along with her friends from the exhibits, she completes helps around the museum. The first half-hour episode consists of two 14-minute shorts, one where Ridley stops a stampede of caribou from one exhibit and one where Ridley and her friends must escape a rockslide in another exhibit.
BUCKLEY’S CHANCE is a family drama about a 13-year-old boy, Ridley, who moves with his mother to western Australia to live with his estranged grandfather after the death of his father. Ridley and his mom are met by a disgruntled and bitter grandfather who doesn’t want them. Ridley runs away and is kidnapped. He escapes his kidnappers but gets lost in the dangerous outback when he tries to find his way back home. A wild dog helps Ridley out of a trap and protects and guides the boy along the way. Meanwhile, Ridley’s grandfather assures his mother they’ll find her missing son. Will they get there in time, however?
OUT OF DEATH is a small crime thriller starring Bruce Willis. The story follows Shannon, a journalist on vacation in the mountains, who plans to spread her father’s ashes on a hike they did years before his death. However, while hiking, Shannon witnesses a drug deal between a cop and a drug dealer that goes awry. The cop notices Shannon, and the chase begins. Soon, Shannon discovers that the police department of the rural mountain town wants no witnesses. While on the run, she meets Jack Harris, a retired cop, played by Bruce Willis, who offers to help. Shannon is faced with a difficult decision, but whom can she truly trust? However, if Shannon is unwilling to trust Jack, the town’s corrupt actions could go unpunished.
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THE TRUE CHRISTIAN HISTORY OF AMERICA is a documentary addressing the founding of America and its history from a Christian perspective while highlighting the country’s biblical origins. For years, people have been taught that that the founding of America was a result of the Enlightenment or deists of the time, having nothing to do with God. So, what is the truth? The movie is more than just about history. For one example, the Second Amendment has roots as far back as Old Testament times, where Israelites were building walls and a temple while wielding swords at their waists.
TWIST is a modern retelling of Charles Dickens’ novel, OLIVER TWIST, the classic tale of an orphan who believes he’s found his home among a group of thieves. In this modern setting, Twist and the other thieves are graffiti artists who practice the sport of freerunning, an artistic version of the sport of running, climbing and leaping across urban landscapes in the quickest, most efficient way possible. They steal things for Fagin, their leader and provider. Twist believes he’s found a home, but he quickly realizes Fagin’s deceit is the least of his worries.
OLD is a psychological horror movie. A troubled married couple travels to an island resort with their two young children. The hotel manager offers them and several other people a chance to frolic at a beautiful, isolated beach. They can phone the hotel if they want to return before the driver picks them up at 5 p.m. However, when a young woman’s body washes up on the lagoon leading to the beach, they discover their phones can’t get a signal. They also discover the beach is mysteriously aging them. And, if they try to leave, they just lose consciousness.
NINE DAYS is a dramatic fantasy. The story unfolds as an interviewer named Will must decide whether five unborn souls should be selected for the chance to be alive. Will interviews the five souls, who have vastly different personalities and outlooks on life. Through a series of questions and trials, Will determines which of the souls have what it takes to be successful on earth. Through the process, Will learns about life and growing as a person from the unborn souls and eventually experiences healing from his past.
SNAKE EYES: G.I. JOE ORIGINS is a thrilling action adventure reboot of the G.I. Joe franchise created by Hasbro Toys and Marvel Comics. The movie opens with a young boy watches a man kill his father. Years later, the boy is obsessed with getting revenge on his father’s killer. Calling himself Snake Eyes, he earns a living in underground fighting. A Japanese gangster recruits Snake Eyes to help him defeat the Japanese ninja clan that kicked him out of their clan, in exchange for the man who killed his father.
SECRET AGENT DINGLEDORF AND HIS TRUSTY DOG SPLAT is a fun, lighthearted comedy about Bernie Dingledorf and a malicious group of clowns led by Dr. Chuckles. Dr. Chuckles hatches a plan to take over the world with laughter, but not the nice kind. Dingledorf thinks he’s a loser until he and his friends become the only ones who can stop Dr. Chuckles and save the day. The movie includes a lot of wild and wacky comedy sure to entertain younger viewers.
JUNGLE CRUISE is a big action adventure movie based on Disneyland’s popular ride and set in 1916. Lily, a young English scientist, hires Frank, a debt-ridden boat captain, to take her down the Amazon River to find a fabled tree with leaves that cure any disease. Along for the ride is Lily’s brother. However, an evil German prince is hot on their trail in his very own German submarine. Innumerable other dangers await them down river, including a group of cursed Spanish conquistadores awakened from suspended animation.
FREE GUY is a science fiction comedy about a character in a video game called Free City where chaos and devastation reign. Guy is a background character in the game where players get points by committing crimes. Guy decides he wants to take a bigger role in the events around him. Guy wants to be a good guy, a hero. Guy’s new behavior attracts the attention of a female player, Millie. Millie is trying to find hidden information in the game that proves the game’s mean owner stole the game’s technology from her and her friend.
RESPECT tells the life story of singer Aretha Franklin. The movie starts 1952 at her father’s home where he throws large parties and then goes to preach the next day in the largest black church in Detroit. At one party, a man comes into Aretha’s room and rapes her. Later, it’s revealed Aretha has had two children out of wedlock. Eventually, after a stint with Columbia Records, Aretha finds her voice in 1967 while recording for Atlantic Records and at the famous FAME Studios in Muscle Shoals, Alabama. However, her first husband, who was also her manager, was abusive, and Aretha increasingly has problems with alcohol.
THE MYSTERIOUS BENEDICT SOCIETY is a mystery adventure streaming on Disney Plus. MOVIEGUIDE® screened the first two episodes. Nicholas Benedict, a disheveled, brilliant scientist, has uncovered a plot to spread worldwide anxiety, fear and chaos by sending subliminal messages though TV and radio. The signals are coming from a mysteri-ous school for gifted children located on an isolated island. Using strange tests, he picks four special children to infiltrate the school, find out who’s behind the school and locate the actual source of the signals.
The “Reckoning” episode of THE CHOSEN on VidAngel tells about the opposition that’s starting to face Jesus and His disciples. Jesus is taken to a local Roman leader for questioning. After Jesus leaves, the disciples argue about how to respond. While following Gaius and Jesus to the place where Jesus was taken, Andrew and Philip encounter two old friends. Meanwhile, two Jewish Pharisees seek information about Jesus’ miracles to use against him.
ESCAPE ROOM: TOURNAMENT OF CHAMPIONS is a super intense, harrowing thriller. The movie opens on the two young survivors from the first ESCAPE ROOM movie, Ben and Zoey. Zoey wants to expose Minos Corporation, an evil gambling enterprise for rich people that put Ben and her through a deadly series of escape rooms. Hoping to find some clues, Ben and Zoey visit a warehouse in New York City that Minos apparently has abandoned. However, they end up trapped in another series of deadly escape rooms with four other survivors.
ROADRUNNER: A FILM ABOUT ANTHONY BOURDAIN is a documentary about the popular and kind, but troubled, celebrity chef and TV host. The movie seeks to provide a full portrait of this complex man and illuminate what drove him to his dark decision to hang himself. Acclaimed documentary filmmaker Morgan Neville, who also made the MOVIEGUIDE® Award-winning movie on Mr. Rogers, WON’T YOU BE MY NEIGHBOR?, directs the movie.
SUMMER OF SOUL is a music documentary about the Harlem Cultural Festival in 1969, which was a series of musical concerts taking place over several weekends in New York City. The festival featured performances by major black soul, pop and jazz stars of the time. The movie intercuts some of the major performances with interviews of some of the artists and attendees looking back on the festival and what it meant to them. “It wasn’t just about the music,” singer Gladys Knight recalls. “We wanted progress.”
THE SPARKS BROTHERS is a documentary recounting the history of the band Sparks. Sparks has released 25 albums in 50 years. Led by the brother duo of Russell and Ron Mael, it’s survived an unbelievable rollercoaster ride of ups and downs. The movie asks how a band can be both highly acclaimed by critics and musicians and yet be vastly underrated by the public. To answer this question, it uses interviews with dozens of celebrities including the singer Beck, “Weird Al” Yankovic and star bassist Flea. The interviews show viewers the high esteem that the music industry has for Sparks. The movie uses a stream of archival footage and performance imagery to bring its story to life.
PIG is an independent drama with thriller qualities. It stars a bearded Nicolas Cage as a quiet loner named Robin Feld who lives alone with a beloved foraging pig deep in the Oregon wilderness. One night, some men beat up Robin and steal his pig. Robin enlists the help of a young food dealer named Amir, Robin’s only contact with the outside world. Amir takes Robin to his former cutthroat world of snooty restaurants in Portland. As Robin confronts his past, viewers slowly learn about his past life and what drove him to become a recluse.
SPACE JAM: A NEW LEGACY focuses on NBA legend LeBron James and his son, Dom, who unlike LeBron, is not interested in athletics, but technology. When LeBron takes Dom to hear about a new movie deal with Warner Bros., Dom gets sucked into the “Serververse” where a villain wants revenge on LeBron for disliking his idea. To save Dom, LeBron must play a basketball game with a team capable of helping him win. Enter the Looney Tunes. Will Bugs Bunny and the Looney Tunes gang bring their best effort to help LeBron save Dom?
STUNTMAN is a terrific documentary on Disney Plus about a Hollywood stuntman, Eddie Braun. A devoted husband and father of four, Braun comes from humble beginnings. He gained recognition by doing more intense stunts. Now in his 50s, Braun decides to attempt the late Evel Knievel’s rocket launch across Snake River Canyon. With everyone involved braced for utter failure, will Braun stick the landing?
“Forever and a Dog” is the premiere episode of TURNER AND HOOCH, a new series on Disney Plus based on a 1989 Tom Hanks movie. Scott Turner is a clean-freak police detective in San Francisco who’s obsessed with controlling every aspect of his life. That is, until his sister drops off his late father’s huge slobbering dog, Hooch. After some back and forth with Hooch, Scott realizes Hooch may prove valuable not only to his career, but also to his love life. Things come to a crisis when Scott and his partner, Jessica, take Hooch to a stakeout.
THE TOMORROW WAR is a superb science fiction thriller streaming on Amazon Prime. Chris Pratt stars as Dan Forester, a former soldier and biology expert enjoying life in December 2021 with his wife and 9-year-old daughter. Some soldiers from 2051 suddenly interrupt a World Cup soccer game. They tell the world that future humanity needs help defeating a horde of alien monsters. One year later, humanity is losing the war. Because of his expertise and military experience, Dan is drafted to travel to 2051 to help retrieve 12 lab vials that could mass produce an alien-killing toxin.
I AM ALL GIRLS is a crime drama streaming on Netflix based on true events of human trafficking in South Africa. The movie follows a special crimes investigator, Jodie, whose passion is to bring down a global child sex trafficking syndicate. However, Jodie is willing to go against law enforcement rules to bring the perpetrators to justice. As a result, she’s taken off the case. Jodie forms a bond with a co-worker referred to as Ntombi. As they continue the investigation off the books, Jodie faces moral dilemma after moral dilemma.
SCREENED IN is a short hour-length drama on YouTube that addresses teenage addiction to smartphones and social media. While teenager Peyton Hawthorne celebrates her birthday with two friends, she comes to realize the hold her smartphone has taken over their lives. She and her friends take steps toward weaning themselves away from their phones, but it proves harder than they thought. Will they be able to tackle their addiction and overcome it?
A WHIRLWIND WEDDING is a cheesy but endearing romantic comedy on UPtv. Cassie Mitchell is an accountant with dreams of being a designer. She gets a call from her mother that her wedding planner quit one week before the mother weds a man named Henry. So, she asks Cassie to plan her wedding. Cassie travels to her mother’s house, where she meets a charming man named Kyle, a chef and new caterer. Cassie hires him, and the two begin the wedding preparations. A romantic spark begins between the two as the week continues. On the eve of the wedding, Cassie’s boyfriend, Phil, surprises her with a marriage proposal. Will she accept his proposal?
WOLFGANG is a documentary streaming on Disney Plus that recounts the life story of the first celebrity chef, Wolfgang Puck. The movie details his rise from poverty and an emotionally abusive childhood in Austria to achieve massive success after embracing capitalism in America. Using anecdotal interviews, re-enactments and archival photos and videos that bring his story vividly to life, this documentary is an excellent and inspirational tale of the American Dream in action.
“Spirit” is the fifth episode of THE CHOSEN’s second season. Jesus, Simon Peter, Andrew, and Phillip meet with John the Baptist, Jesus’ cousin. Jesus speaks with John privately, where John tells Jesus of his plans to confront King Herod. John asks Jesus why he’s taking so long to begin His public ministry. Jesus maintains there’s a time for everything, and when the time for Him to go public happens, He will. Meanwhile, two Pharisees question Jessie, Simon the Zealot’s brother, about the miracle Jesus did for Jessie on the Sabbath. Back in the camp, a demon-possessed man threatens the apostles and confronts Mary Magdalene.
Recounting the life of Mafia gangster and accountant Meyer Lansky through a series of interviews with a troubled writer, LANSKY brings to life one of America’s most notorious figures in a three-dimensional way that also shows some noble aspects of his career. With frequent foul language and frequent brief bursts of graphic violence, the movie is aimed at an adult audience, which should enjoy compelling lead performances by Harvey Keitel as Lansky and Sam Worthington as writer David Stone. By the end, Lansky is shown attending synagogue and telling Stone emotionally that “I’m an angel. . . with a dirty face.”
BLACK WIDOW, Marvel and Disney’s new superhero movie, opens on her life years ago, when Natasha and her sister, Yelena, were taken from the world they know in Ohio and flown to Communist Cuba. They are put into “The Red Room,” a place where the Soviet Union brainwashes young girls and trains them to kill. Natasha eventually defects from the program, however. Years later, after the events in CAPTAIN AMERICA: CIVIL WAR, Natasha and her sister get together and want to go back to rescue the other girls from the harm being done to them.
THE BOSS BABY: FAMILY BUSINESS follows a now-grown Tim and his sweet family. One day, Tim’s younger and successful businessman brother, Ted, comes for a visit. Things get turned upside down when the brothers learn that Tim’s youngest daughter, Tina, works for a pro-baby organization called Baby Corp. Tim and Ted take a potion that turns them into younger versions of themselves where they’re forced to blend with children. They find out a local school headmaster has big plans to take away authority from all parents. They hatch a plan to stop him.
FRIENDS: THE REUNION is a TV special streaming on HBO MAX. A lit set on the Warner Bros. lot illuminates the old set from the FRIENDS television series on a day like any other. Except, that the program’s six mega-famous stars will reunite on camera, 17 years after shooting the finale. The documentary then dives into many sequences that juxtapose the cast with one another, showrunners talking about the program’s genesis, audience questions, and interviews of celebrities who express their love for the series. The cast answers several long-standing questions, especially about Ross and Rachel’s roller coaster relationship.
THE HUMAN FACTOR is a documentary that covers the Clinton Administration’s attempts from 1993 to 2001 to broker peace between Israel and the Palestinian Arabs living in the West Bank and the Gaza Strip. It’s told from the viewpoint of President Clinton and his advisors. The movie opens with a discussion about the importance of diplomatic negotiations between adversaries, in this case the Israelis and the Palestinian people. The rest of the movie shows how President Clinton and his administration tried to broker a peace treaty between four different Israeli Prime Ministers and Yasser Arafat, chairman of the Palestinian Liberation Organization (PLO), which engages in terrorism.
OF ANIMALS AND MEN is a Polish documentary about the Żabiński family, who ran the famous Warsaw Zoo in the 1930s. The zoo became home to elephants, giraffes, zebra, bears, lions, and other animals. When WORLD WAR II began, many of the animals were killed or taken by the German Nazi government. Eventually, the Nazis turned the zoo into land for food for the war effort and community. When the Nazis opened concentration camps, the Żabiński family used the empty zoo to hide, feed and disguise Jews. Through their bravery, the family saved more than 300 Jews.
A FATHER’S LEGACY is a drama about two men from different worlds, whose lives collide. Wounded in a robbery, a young man named Nick breaks into the home of Billy, an elderly, reclusive Vietnam vet. Nick makes demands at gunpoint. Billy has nothing to lose and not much will to live. He has a chance to escape and turn Nick into the police. However, Billy looks deeper into Nick and sees a young man who needs help. Billy spends time with Nick. He teaches him how to fish and how to fix things, while he doles out words of wisdom. To his surprise, their friendship challenges Billy to look at his own life and make peace with his past before it’s too late.
THE CONJURING: THE DEVIL MADE ME DO IT is an R-rated horror movie loosely based on a real but controversial 1981 case. In the real case, a young man, Arne (“Arnie”) Johnson, is accused of murdering his landlord during a small, alcohol-infused party. Two married Roman Catholic amateur occult experts, Arnie’s girlfriend, Debbie, and Debbie’s family convince Arnie’s defense attorney to plead Not Guilty by reason of demonic possession. The movie adds a plot about a powerful Satanist who’s placed a curse on Debbie’s little brother, which was transferred to Arnie when Arnie challenged the demon attacking the boy to attack him instead.
UNDER THE STADIUM LIGHTS is an inspirational story based on the 2009 football team at Abilene High School in Texas. The movie follows the lives of three young football players as they navigate their lives on and off the football field. While three young men battle their personal life struggles, they find hope and inspiration through football. Moreover, the team chaplain offers the team advice through faith and sets an outstanding example for the community. Although the journey isn’t easy, the football team overcomes many obstacles to set national and statewide records.
SPIRIT UNTAMED is an enjoyable, wholesome animated adventure for the family. Lucky has a penchant for getting into trouble. So, her wealthy grandfather sends Lucky with her Aunt Cora to live in the country with her father. On the train ride, they see some beautiful wild horses running alongside the train. Lucky’s father is trying to figure out how to care for his daughter, because his wife, Lucky’s mother, died when Lucky was very young. Lucky develops a desire to tame one of the beautiful horses she saw running with the train. However, when a gang of men steals the horses, Lucky and her friends must come up with a plan to rescue them.
F9 literally takes the FAST AND FURIOUS franchise to new heights. Dom and his wife, Letty, are taken from their isolated family life for a new mission. They and their team learn Dom’s estranged brother, Jakob, is working for a wealthy foreign oligarch trying to steal a dangerous computer hard drive system. The system will be uploaded to a newly launched satellite to hack into all satellites and control all the world’s electronic and military devices. Meanwhile, flashbacks reveal how Dom and Jakob’s father died and why Dom blames his brother.
IN THE HEIGHTS follows the New York City community of Washington Heights one summer. Filmmakers focus on several characters who have “sueñitos,” or little dreams. One man in his late twenties desires to move back to the Dominican Republic. He struggles with his desire because his girlfriend wants to remain in New York to become a fashion designer. Likewise, a father wants his daughter to thrive at Sandford University, but she is conflicted about how she can make a positive impact in the world.
REBUILDING PARADISE is one of the most exciting, captivating documentaries ever made. The movie opens in November 2018. The weather station in Paradise, California warns about high winds and a possibility of fires. Within hours, a brush fire goes from 10 acres to 18,000 acres, surrounding and destroying most of the town. As the fire rages, documentary footage shows people trying to drive out of Paradise. Some don’t make it. Eighty-five people die and get consumed by the fire. Three months later, a town council is held. People are upset about government restrictions on rebuilding and the attitude of the utility monopoly, which caused the fire. One year later, many people are still rebuilding their lives, despite many crises along the way.
KISS THE GROUND is a documentary advocating the use of regenerative farming. Narrated by Actor Woody Harrelson, the movie’s experts, farmers and ranchers say the over-ruse of pesticides and tilling in the United States has depleted the carbon dioxide in the soil that plants and crops need to grow and survive. They show these methods have helped increase the atmosphere’s amount of carbon dioxide. To stop soil destruction, the movie supports regenerative farming. In this system, farms use no-till or reduced till methods for planting crops, let some cropland areas stay unused for a year, move grass-fed livestock around more frequently, and apply composting.
“Sierra Hotel” is the first episode of the Disney Plus [Disney+] television series THE RIGHT STUFF, based on Tom Wolfe’s acclaimed 1979 book. In the episode, NASA searches for the most qualified military test pilots to become the first American astronauts into outer space. In the search, 108 pilots complete a series of strenuous tests for physical stamina, mental strength, motion tests, and overall health. After the tests in 1959, NASA publicly announces seven astronauts as the best of the best. They decide these men have “the right stuff.”
LOST HEART is an enjoyable movie about a troubled starlet who returns home after her father’s death. Country superstar Hannah Sweet returns to Lost Heart, Michigan for her father’s funeral. She soon remembers why she hasn’t returned home in years. Her father was an abusive alcoholic, but her surviving friends and family assure her that he gave his life to Jesus and became a changed man. It’s going to take more than their encouragement, however, to convince Hannah of his conversion. Can they show Hannah the power of Christ’s Gospel? Will His forgiveness be sufficient for even the great Hannah Sweet?
CHRISTMAS WITH A CROWN is a light, enjoyable romantic comedy available on Amazon Prime and DVD. Nicolas, the Crown Prince of Verovia, secretly leaves the country to spend Christmas in a small New England town. The town holds an annual Winter Festival he’s read about in old letters his mother, Queen Mary, has. Meanwhile, Cassie, a New York professional woman, returns to the same town, her hometown, to spend time with her father. However, Cassie’s father, who used to organize the Winter Festival with her late mother, has decided to forego this year’s festival. Cassie decides to organize the Festival herself to raise funds for the library, which needs money to survive. Traveling incognito, Nicolas helps Cassie, but obstacles intervene, including obstacles involving Queen Mary.
THE LAST SERMON is a documentary movie made by and featuring two filmmakers and independent journalists. They survived a 2003 suicide bombing attack in Tel Aviv, Israel. Fourteen years later, the two travel across Europe and the Middle East to understand the roots of Islamic extremism and the current Muslim refugee crisis. As their documentary continues, the Muslim terror attack in Manchester, England in 2017 happens, and the two men are reinvigorated to end terrorism.
HALF BROTHERS follows two half brothers, Renato and Asher, who meet when their father dies. Each has their loose ends to tie up about why their father treated them the way he did and similar issues. To uncover the truth, Asher and Renato embark on a road trip that leads them through a series of clues and riddles. The only problem is Renato is getting married in a few days and can’t stand Asher. Will they find what they’re seeking, or burn bridges in the process?
ALL MY LIFE is an absorbing drama about a young couple, Sol and Jen, who begin dating. After getting engaged, they discover Sol has a tumor in his liver. Sol and Jen are in great spirits when the doctors are able to remove the tumor. Sadly, things take a turn for the worst. The cancer spreads, and Sol requires chemotherapy. This puts their wedding plans on hold. Thanks to their great community of friends, they get to experience the wedding of their dreams. They vow to love each other in both sickness and in health. However, how will the future of those vows unfold?
FAITH UNDER FIRE is a powerful, heart-rending drama. Tom Hatcher is the best firefighter in his firehouse. Though he can save lives, he couldn’t save his wife’s life two years ago when she died from cancer. Now his 6-year-old daughter is getting treatment for a cancerous brain tumor. The new pastor at his late wife’s church reaches out to Tom, but Tom just punches him in the nose. The pastor doesn’t give up. The only person who might be able to help Tom rediscover his connection to God is his ailing, bedridden daughter.
SAFETY is a heartrending, powerful, triumphant movie streaming on Disney Plus [Disney+]. Ray has a full football scholarship to Clemson, a football powerhouse in the NCAA. He’s also extremely bright. At first, Ray is overwhelmed by taking too many course credits as well as the football training. Then, when their mother is forced to go to rehab after being caught with some drugs, Ray decides to hide his little brother at Clemson. When this is discovered the football coach tries to help Ray, but an NCAA official intervenes.
COLORS OF CHARACTER: AN ARTIST’S JOURNEY TO REDEMPTION is a documentary about painter Steve Skipper. With no training, Skipper breaks through the racism in the world of fine art. God radically saves Skipper from a notorious Birmingham, Alabama street gang, and his life is transformed. Emboldened with his newfound faith and his talent for painting, Skipper seizes the opportunities God provides and begins getting paid for his artwork. Skipper faces the difficult decision either to leave the gang and its lucrative business that he enjoys or ignore God’s will for his life.
THEN CAME YOU is a romantic comedy starring Kathie Lee Gifford, Craig Ferguson and Elizabeth Hurley as the romantic rival. Annabelle is an American widow who’s planned a world tour with her husband’s ashes to visit places they loved in the movies. Her first stop is a large Scottish mansion converted to an inn by its owner, Howard, a Scottish laird. Annabelle and Howard don’t hit it off. They start to grow on each other, even though Howard’s sarcastic comments sometimes grate on her. A few surprise developments make Annabelle re-think starting a serious romance with Howard.
A Netflix original animated comedy, PETS UNITED follows Roger, a stray dog, when his home of Robo City is threatened by the evil Mayor Frank. Roger and his robot friend, Bob, wander into Pamper Pets, a spa for the pets of rich citizens, to take cover from being chased by robot cops. They learn Mayor Frank is kicking the humans out of town to replace them with robots because robots create much less waste. Roger and the other pets abandoned at the spa by their owners have to unite together to save the city.
JOHN MARSHALL: THE MAN WHO MADE THE SUPREME COURT is a documentary about the most important chief justice of the Supreme Court. Marshall made the Supreme Court into the influential institution it has become since he ran the court from 1801 to 1835. The beginning of the documentary discusses Marshall’s life before the court. It then details eight important cases that Marshall decided with the other members of the court. A host of constitutional scholars and history scholars discuss the cases. Interspersed with these interviews and discussions are visits to the places where Marshall lived and the states affected by his rulings, and performances by actors reading snippets from some arguments before Marshall’s court and his rulings.
AFTER SO MANY DAYS is an intimate backstage look into the 365-day tour of a newly married couple’s band as they pursue their dream of performing music for a living. Jim and Samantha resolve to play a concert every day for a year. They travel to 14 different countries, documenting their journey along the way. Not only will the year-long adventure test them as musicians, it will also test their marriage.
HONEST THIEF stars Liam Neeson as a notorious bank robber. Encouraged by his love of a good woman, Tom tries to turn himself in to the FBI and return the stolen money. However, two rogue FBI agents turn on him to take the money and frame him for the murder of their boss. Tom must find a way to stop these evil men, clear his name of the murder charge and, at the same time, protect the woman he loves.
THE WAR WITH GRANDPA is a family comedy about a boy who is upset when his grandpa takes his room, forcing the boy to move to the attic. Egged on two friends, Peter the boy challenges his grandpa, Ed, to a prank war. They promise not to involve the rest of the family, which includes Peter’s parents and his two sisters. They promise to keep their war secret. Of course, the prank war eventually gets out of hand. So, the question becomes, will Peter and Ed learn their lesson?
WHEN WE LAST SPOKE follows two sisters named Juliet and Evangeline as children and 29 years later as adults. As adults, it’s been 29 years since the sisters have spoken to one another. As children, Juliet and Evangeline have a lot of adjusting to do when their father goes off to the Vietnam War and their mother leaves them with her husband’s parents. Apparently, the mother couldn’t handle her adult responsibilities. Sadly, the father dies in Vietnam. Will their mother return? Will the family values they learn from their grandparents help them to reconcile?
A Netflix original movie, ENOLA HOLMES, follows Sherlock Holmes’ teenage sister, Enola. When Enola’s mother disappears on her 16th birthday, Enola sets out to find out what’s happened to her. On her journey, Enola ends up in the middle of another mystery concerning Lord Tewksbury, a young boy she meets on the train. All the while, Sherlock isn’t far behind, doing his own sleuthing on Enola and his mother.
ATHLETE A is a documentary following the Indianapolis Star reporters who broke the story, in 2016, about USA Gymnastics doctor Larry Nassar’s decades of abuse of female gymnasts. The movie contains interviews from survivors like gymnast Maggie Nichols and former gymnasts who came forward about Nassar’s abuse and the abusive culture within competitive gymnastics. “Athlete A” refers to the then-anonymous tipper, Maggie Nichols, which led to the first public disclosure of Nassar’s sexual abuse of female gymnasts. Moreover, the documentary reveals the abusive culture of USA Gymnastics and their goal of protecting their brand rather than the girls.
LATTE & THE MAGIC WATERSTONE follows a group of animals in a forest whose existence is threatened by a horrible drought. A lonely hedgehog named Latte volunteers to go on a quest to retrieve the magical waterstone from the greedy bear king to save the forest. She’s reluctantly joined by a timid squirrel named Tjum. Tjum tries to convince Latte to return home. They get separated at the border to the bear king’s realm. Tjum must face his fears to save his family and forest. Meanwhile, Latte must come to grips with her past and learn to trust her friends.
DAD WANTED is a heartfelt drama from Mexico. It follows a 10-year-old girl, Blanca, whose dream is to participate in a BMX racing competition. However, Blanca needs a parent to sign for her. Blanca’s mom strictly forbids her from riding a bike, because her father was killed while riding a bicycle. After scheming with her best friend, Blanca develops a plan to hire an actor to play the role of Blanca’s father. She ends up forming an unlikely bond with the actor she hires. However, it’s only a matter of time before Blanca’s mother learns of her daughter’s dishonesty.
THE COOKIE MOBSTER follows Joey, an ex-mobster who’s placed in witness protection in a small California town. Joey is supposed to lay low until he can testify at a trial for two of his former crooked cohorts. Joey meets his neighbors, Amanda, and her daughter, Sally, who are engaged in a girl scout cookie competition with Sally’s girl scout troop. Joey saves the troop’s money box from being stolen. So, the girls recruit him and his mother’s cookie recipes to help them win the competition. However, Sally captured Joey stopping the thief on video, and the video goes viral on the Internet.
LOVE UNPLUGGED is a family-friendly comedy airing on UPtv. The story follows the lives of Rebecca and Matthew, a young married couple who seem to be disconnected because of the time they spend on their tech devices. When Matthew mis-texts Rebecca about making an offer on a house they might buy, they realize they have some issues to work out together. Then, a power outage forces them to talk to one another and spend time off their devices. They decide to go device-free at home to help them reconnect with each other. In the process, they just might teach their two close friends a thing or too.
FIND YOUR VOICE is a comedy from Australia and New Zealand. A shallow, conceited young Maori man in Sydney named Elvis, or “E” for short, thinks he’s God’s gift to rap music. Despite having a beautiful singing voice, E pursues a rap music career because he thinks that’s where fame and fortune lie. However, E has no talent for rap music. When he wins the lottery, he decides to travel to New Zealand to reconnect with his ethnic roots and his family. Once there, E becomes interested in a pretty singer. However, his ego and pursuit of fortune get in his way.
Inspired by a true story, CLOUDS focuses on a 17-year-old boy named Zach Sobiech who’s struggling with cancer and has 6 to 10 months to live. Zach is a high school senior with aspirations to live a normal life, go to college, marry his high school sweetheart, and have a family. Although his dreams might not line up with reality, his family and friends support him in this hard season. One day Zach and his best friend record some music videos that goes viral which takes their music and Zach’s story to the next level…
SMALL GROUP is a faith-based comedy on DVD, Blu-ray and streaming. It follows Scott Cooper and his pregnant wife, Mary, as he goes undercover as a fake Christian to make a documentary about the dwindling influence of Christianity in America. Scott and Mary are skeptical about what they’re doing but end up developing a real relationship with Jesus Christ. However, that relationship is tested through several traumatic events and a betrayal by the man producing Scott’s movie.
PRAY: THE STORY OF PATRICK PEYTON is a documentary about Patrick Peyton, wo was born in 1909. Exposed to the Gospel of Jesus Christ in Ireland, Patrick’s life is transformed, and he emigrates to the United States. In his 20s, prayer results in Patrick being miraculously healed from tuberculosis. On the cusp of World War II, he sends 20,000 letters to American families, asking them to pray. Patrick moves to Hollywood, where he starts a radio program. Never taking “No” for an answer, Patrick convinces Hollywood’s biggest stars, including Lucille Ball, Ronald Reagan, and Jimmy Stewart, to help him spread the message, “The family that prays together stays together.”
Based on a true story, THE ONE AND ONLY IVAN is a live-action movie on Disney Plus about a gorilla named Ivan who performs at a shopping mall but longs to be in the wild. The circus is in trouble financially. One day, the owner, Mack, purchases a baby elephant named Ruby that he hopes can save the show. Later, Ivan makes a promise to a dying elephant named Stella that he will help free Ruby. It turns out that Ivan also wants freedom.
SNOOPY IN SPACE is an animated Apple TV original series inspired by Charles Schulz’s PEANUTS comic strip. In 12 short episodes, the series follows Snoopy’s journey to becoming a NASA astronaut, rocketing to the International Space Station, walking in space and traveling to the moon and back. SNOOPY IN SPACE is the product of a collaboration between Peanuts Worldwide and NASA to promote STEM science studies to children.
SLEEPING BEAUTY is Walt Disney’s classic 1959 animated fairytale. It follows a princess named Aurora who’s cursed by an evil fairy named Maleficent. Upon Aurora’s 16th birthday, she will prick her finger on the spindle of a spinning wheel and die. However, thanks to a good fairy named Meriwether, Princess Aurora won’t die but will fall into a deep sleep until true love’s kiss awakens her. Now, it’s up to the good fairies to keep Aurora out of harm’s way. Will they succeed in protecting the young royal?
TRAIN TO BUSAN PRESENTS: PENINSULA is a science fiction horror movie about a former South Korean soldier stranded in Hong Kong with his brother-in-law after Korea’s infected with zombies. A local gang recruits them and some other people to return to South Korea to retrieve 20 million U.S. dollars stranded in a truck in a port city. The gang’s ship will pick them up if they can get the truck to the seaport. The mission doesn’t go as planned, however, and the ex-soldier must rely on a mother and her two daughters to retrieve the truck and meet the ship.
BECKMAN is a thrilling action movie set in Los Angeles about a former hitman named Aaron Beckman who gives his life to Jesus Christ. Aaron gets baptized and eventually starts leading a congregation as a pastor. However, an evil man named Reese threatens to hurt Aaron’s adopted daughter, Tabitha, for Reese’s cult. Eventually, Aaron finds himself wrestling with his faith about when he will stop his violent attempts to rescue Tabitha. Along the way, Aaron encounters people he knew before giving his life to Christ. He also uncovers a human trafficking ring. The choice about how Aaron acts in stopping this ring and rescuing Tabitha will be up to him.
TULSA is a faith-based drama movie inspired by true events. In TULSA, a hopeless addict named Tommy Colston reluctantly invites a faith-filled 9-year-old named Tulsa into his home, since she might actually be his biological child. Both Tommy and Tulsa have troubled pasts involving addiction and things of the like that raise tensions. However, one of the most significant differences between the two characters is Tulsa’s strong faith in God and His Word Written, the Bible. As their relationship grows, Tommy and Tulsa must face the reality of their beliefs about faith, love and their broken pasts and personal pain.
THE PERSONAL HISTORY OF DAVID COPPERFIELD stresses the comical nature of the famous Charles Dickens novel about the adventures, loves, tragedies, and varying economic status of a young lad in Victorian. Born into a middle-class family, David loses his father, then his mother. He becomes poor but finds solace in the country home of his eccentric great aunt. No longer poor, David attends school, finds a good job with a lawyer and falls for a silly but endearing girl. However, he’s thrust back into poverty when an evil man embezzles his aunt’s money.
THIS IS THE YEAR is a sweet romantic comedy about a high school senior named Josh. Josh is determined to date the girl of his dreams and finish his high school experience on a high note. There’s one glaring problem for Josh: his crush, Zoey, is about to move to Los Angeles, and he’s never told her how he feels. Josh and his best friend, Molly, hatch a plan to go to a stellar music festival to woo Zoey, but they don’t have tickets. Will things work out the way Josh envisions?
ROBIN’S WISH is an insightful documentary into the last years of comic legend Robin William’s life. In the movie, Williams’s doctors, family and life-long friends share sweet sentiments about the late comedian. The archival footage will be especially fun for fans as they show him making people laugh hysterically. Viewers get an inside look into why Williams chose to take his life, and the startling medical battle he underwent without knowing his true diagnosis.
BIRDIE is a new faith-based drama streaming on Pure Flix. It follows released convict Luke Bellamy. Luke wants nothing more than to reconnect with his 8-year-old daughter, but her grandparents struggle to forgive him. Luke was in prison for seven years after crashing a car while driving with alcohol and drugs in his system and killing the passenger, his wife. Luke’s daughter doesn’t know the real story, but her grandfather can’t find it within himself to forgive Luke for the death of his daughter. Luke must come face-to-face with his past as he struggles to make a life for himself and earn the trust of his daughter and her grandfather.
THOSE WHO WISH ME DEAD stars Angelina Jolie as Hannah, a firefighting smoke jumper in Montana who’s haunted by not being able to save three teenage boys during a wildfire. Meanwhile, two assassins in Florida kill a district attorney who’s uncovered high-level corruption among major politicians. They go after the forensic accountant in the case, who flees to Montana with his son, Connor. After killing the father, the assassins go after Connor, who escaped. Ultimately, it’s up to Hannah to save Connor from the two assassins and from a huge wildfire they started to distract the authorities.
PROFILE is inspired by the true story of British journalist Amy Whittaker, who risks her life to take down a sex-trafficking ring by an Islamic recruiting group in Syria. She poses as a lonely misfit teenager from a broken family on social media. Targeted by the highly specialized and nefarious tactics of a charismatic predator, Amy falls prey to his charms. Halfway to Syria, Amy reaches out to Bilel, who directs her to an Arab-speaking escort. Is Amy too head-over-heels in love? Or, can she find the journalist within to ask the right questions before it’s too late?
HERE TODAY is a funny, touching comedy-drama for mature audiences. It stars Billy Crystal, who also directs as Charlie, a TV comedy writer in his seventies who’s suffering an onset of dementia. Charlie develops a surprisingly strong friendship with Emma, a black female jazz singer half his age. Charlie’s grown children already resent him for the way their mother died decades ago but look at his friendship with Emma with disdain. Emma must decide how to get to Charlie as his mental condition worsens.
FINAL ACCOUNT is a German documentary about Nazi Germany and the Holocaust. It features interviews of former mid-level German soldiers, including Waffen-SS members, and several middle-class and working-class women. The people were eyewitnesses or became part in some way of Adolf Hitler’s campaign to hound, imprison and eventually kill Jews and other undesirable people that Hitler and his top cohorts believed were “unworthy of life.” The people discuss becoming part of National Socialist youth groups and Germany’s development of Hitler’s Final Solution to kill Jews. Finally, they answer questions about their own knowledge, complicity and guilt. The movie includes newsreels and photos.
Inspired by a true story, DREAM HORSE follows the financial and emotional investment of an Englishwoman name Jan Vokes as she looks to breed and raise a racehorse. After convinces her husband and other friends and acquaintances, Jan heads up a syndicate where shareholders agree to her idea. Months after making the agreement, a female horse gives birth to a young foal that Jan and her shareholders decide to call Dream Alliance. But, will Dream live up to his name or be a colossal failure for everyone involved?
THE WATER MAN follows a family facing hardships. Gunner is a very bright young man, who loves to read and do research. When his mother, Mary, gets sick, he longs to help and learn more about her disease. When Gunner finds out about a man with eternal life, he believes the man can help his mother. Gunner and his father, Amos, are not seeing eye-to-eye and can’t seem to get along, which may have to do with his mother’s illness. A troubled girl named Jo tells Gunner about a man who has eternal life. With her help, Gunner runs away into the mountains to find the Water Man.
CRUELLA is based on the female villain in 101 DALMATIANS. Estella’s mother dies when three Dalmatians attack her, pushing her off a cliff. Now an orphan, Estella meets two orphaned boys who steal to survive. The three grow up, and Estella becomes adept at creating fashion designs that con people so they can steal from them. Estella gets a break and is hired by The Baroness, the best fashion designer in the business. Estella is excited until the Baroness takes credit for all her designs. So, Estella creates an alter-ego named Cruella and shows up everywhere the Baroness is to upstage her. Will the Baroness find out and fire Estella?
A QUIET PLACE PART II is the edge-of-your-seat sequel to the popular 2018 science fiction thriller. The opening shows what happened when the alien monsters first appeared in the small New York town where Lee and Evelyn Abbott were raising three children. Cut to 47 days later. Lee has died saving his family and their youngest son also died, but Evelyn has given birth to a fourth child. The family runs into a family friend, who goes after the daughter when she follows a musical signal leading to an island sanctuary just off the coast.
BLUE MIRACLE is a wonderful drama on Netflix. Omar is on the brink of losing the beloved all-boys orphanage in Cabo, Mexico that he and his wife, Becca, run. He enters a fishing competition with a fisherman named Wade. Omar and Wade are paired up in the competition by the man running it, even though they aren’t happy about it. Wade has won the competition twice, but now is a grumpy, jaded fisherman who doesn’t want to deal with Omar’s orphan boys. Will the boys get along on the boat? Will they catch the biggest blue marlin, win the competition and save the orphanage?
FINDING YOU is a romantic drama. When Finley doesn’t do well in her violin audition, she decides to visit Ireland for inspiration. On the plane, Finley sits next to Beckett, a Hollywood heartthrob who’s shooting a movie in the same small Irish town she’s visiting. Finley judges Beckett as having a big ego. When she gets to the Bed and Breakfast where she’s staying, she finds Beckett’s also staying there. Meanwhile, Finley finds an old sketchbook where her late brother drew a local cross he found. Finley longs to find the cross and the peace her brother had before he died.
TRIUMPH is an inspiring sports drama about a high school senior with cerebral palsy affecting his left arm and leg and his speech. Mike Conley wants to join his new school’s wrestling team. Mike impresses the coach with his perseverance and hard work, but Mike fails to make the team. He agrees to become student manager for the team, however. Unexpectedly, Mike gets a chance to compete in some matches, but he loses every match. Then, his best friend, Jeff, the team’s star player, is injured in a fall. Can Mike help Jeff recover full use of his legs? Will Mike ever win a wrestling match?
SINCERELY, YOURS, TRULY is a funny romantic comedy airing on UPtv. Hayley Hammond is a nonprofit business owner competing for a grant against a tech expert named Josh Burns. While Hayley is navigating the chaos of the grant, she stumbles upon an old box of love letters at her house. Hayley decides to write back to the owner of the letters to return an engagement ring found with the letters. She’s shocked when she receives a reply. Will Hayley find love, or will she continue her life as a workaholic?
MAN OF GOD tells the story of the Greek Orthodox Bishop Nektarios of Aegina. In 1891, Nektarios is unjustly slandered, falsely accused and convicted without a trial, then removed from his duties as Bishop of Cairo in Egypt. Exiled to Greece, he lives in poverty as he continues to live Gospel charity toward everyone he encounters. With pressure from church benefactors, his name is finally cleared. Nektarios becomes director of a school for seminarians and secular students. He then founds a monastery for nuns on the island of Aegina. Throughout his story, Nektarios is met with opposition and hatred at every turn. However, he returns this ill treatment from other church leaders with the Gospel values of love, patience, kindness, and self-denial.
LIMBO is a comical Scottish drama about a Syrian refugee sent to a cold, remote island in Scotland. Omar waits to have his request for amnesty approved but grows increasingly depressed at being separated from his parents, who are refugees living in Turkey. Omar lives in a house with three other immigrants, an Afghan refugee named Farhad and two African refugees, Wasef and Abedi. The men like to watch DVDs of the American TV show, FRIENDS. Omar carries around his grandfather’s oud, and Arab guitar, but refuses to play it for anyone. Omar and his three roommates experience comical and dramatic setbacks and victories.
CHADWICK BOSEMAN: PORTRAIT OF AN ARTIST is a 21-minute documentary about the late actor’s dedication to his craft. It compiles interviews from past co-stars, producers and directors. They reflect on working with Boseman and read some of his private notes from his personal script for MA RAINEY’S BLACK BOTTOM, the last movie he filmed before his untimely death. Intercut with the interview segments are pertinent scenes from his last movie and archival footage of a speech he gave.
In the “I Saw You” episode of THE CHOSEN, Simon Peter and Matthew can’t see eye to eye due to Matthew’s past mistakes. Meanwhile, Nathaniel struggles with his faith. Phillip brings him to meet Jesus and join the disciples. As Jesus travels throughout the land, his fame grows exponentially, and many people begin waiting to be healed. At the end of the episode, Andrew and Simon Peter run out to tell Jesus that many people are lined up to meet him.
In the “Matthew 4:24” episode of THE CHOSEN, Jesus stays up late to perform miracles on the sick and injured. Visitors have traveled from far and wide as Jesus’ fame continues to grow. At night the Apostles tell stories about their pasts and how they’ve grown since meeting Jesus. Mary tells the story about the birth of Jesus, but tension erupts between Matthew and Simon Peter later. Peter says he can’t forgive Matthew for turning against his own people by becoming a Roman tax collector.
FAR EAST DEEP SOUTH is a beautiful, emotional journey on PBS about one Chinese family’s search for their roots. Baldwin Chiu and brother, Edwin, begin with the assumption that they are first generation Chinese Americans living in San Francisco. However, they find out their Chinese grandfather is buried in Mississippi. This new information leads the Chiu family on a voyage of discovery that will change forever the family they thought they knew. Their journey begins with one question. How did Chinese people end up in segregated Mississippi in the latter part of the 19th Century?
THE TALE OF GENJI: A THOUSAND YEAR ENIGMA is one of many Japanese movies derived from the world’s first novel, written by a woman, Lady Murasaki, who lived in the 10th Century. The tale involves Genji, an exceptionally handsome and intelligent young man born to an imperial consort who didn’t belong to the higher castes. Although the Emperor wants him to become the Crown Prince, his lower status as a commoner means he can’t assume the throne, though he’s allowed to live in the palace. Genji marries Aio, but she refuses to open up to him. So, he pursues a series of affairs. One of his mistresses becomes jealous of his wife.
Based on a true story, PERCY VS. GOLIATH follows one Canadian farmer during the late 1990s in his fight against a major farming organization. Monsanto Canola accuses Percy of using a patented seed for his harvested crops. It becomes clear that Percy is an underdog fighting for his livelihood. As he and his family seek public support for their cause, they fight for farmers everywhere, not only in Canada but also around the world.
THUNDER FORCE is a highly entertaining superhero spoof on Netflix starring the unlikely team of Melissa McCarthy and Octavia Spencer. Melissa plays Lydia, an overweight girl who grows up to be a tough-talking and acting construction worker. Her childhood friend, played by Octavia, is Emily, a smart nerdy girl who’s become a highly successful inventor and industrialist. Lydia visits Emily’s office to invite her to their school reunion. While at Emily’s office, Lydia accidentally injects herself with a serum that gives her super-strength. When Emily also gets superpowers, they team up to form a crime-fighting group called Thunder Force to save Chicago from an evil mayoral candidate.
WALKING WITH HERB is a faith-based comedy about a 65-year-old bank manager who’s lost his faith in God because of his granddaughter’s death. Joe gets a second chance when God gives him an assignment to win an eccentric billionaire’s $300 million golf tournament to be the golf champion of the world. God sends an angel named Herb to help Joe. Being an amateur, Joe must qualify for the world championship tournament by winning one of the top two spots in a qualifying golf tournament. Eventually, Joe must face an angry young golfer who’s upset he must compete against a 65-year-old amateur.
STARTING UP LOVE is a romance airing on UPtv about a young finance executive, Jillian, who inherits her uncle’s mountain cabin. Jillian discovers that she only owns half the cabin, and the other half belongs to Liam, a handyman who’s worked on the building for years. After Jillian fails to secure a promotion, she leaves her venture capitalist company in the city and goes to the cabin to try to sell it. Liam is the complete opposite. He knows everyone in town and wants to turn the cabin into a bed and breakfast. As their two worlds clash, sparks begin to fly. Eventually, Jillian must choose between Liam and the town which has become like her family, or her career.
THE MITCHELLS VS. THE MACHINES is an animated science fiction comedy on Netflix. The quirky daughter, Katie, is accepted at film college, and her father decides the family should drive Katie to college to restore his bond with her. They stop at a dinosaur museum for Katie’s brother to enjoy. At the museum, a bunch of robots arrive and start forcing people into some pods. The Mitchells manage to escape and hide. Will they be able to join together, put aside their differences and quarrels, and save themselves (and the rest of world) from the malevolent robots?
TOM CLANCY’S WITHOUT REMORSE is a military thriller on Amazon Prime loosely based on a 1993 novel by Clancy. Michael B. Jordan plays Navy Seal John Kelly, whose pregnant wife is killed by Russian assassins in retaliation for the death of some Russian soldiers in Syria during a hostage rescue. Three members of the Seal team are also killed, but the government puts a stop to any retaliation, to keep the peace. However, Kelly forces a Russian diplomat to give up the name of the assassin who escaped Kelly’s house. So, the Defense Secretary okays a Navy Seal op to kidnap the assassin in Russia. The mission goes awry, however.
MADE FOR YOU, WITH LOVE follows the story of a wedding gown store owner named Amanda. At a client’s wedding, Amanda meets a wedding photographer named James. James is hired to photograph a magazine cover on Amanda’s dress business. Although Amanda and James have their differences, the two eventually may get to like each other. Will Amanda give James a chance or continue to live a single life?
ATLANTIC CROSSING is one of the most exciting historical television miniseries. Airing on PBS-TV’s MASTERPIECE THEATER, it focuses on the Norwegian royal family trying to save Norway from the Nazi Germany at the beginning of World War II by reaching out to President Roosevelt and King George VI of England. The first two episodes show the Crown Prince and Crown Princess of Norway, Olav and Martha, being separated as the Germans invade Norway. Olav flees to England with his father while Martha flees to America with their children.
THE EQUALIZER stars Queen Latifah as Robyn McCall, a female version of the retired CIA agent from the popular 1980s series who used his skills to help people in need. In the pilot, also titled “The Equalizer,” Robyn has retired from the CIA after a series of disappointments with her bosses. She lives with her sister and her teenage daughter, Delilah. When Robyn encounters a college-bound waitress who’s been framed for murder by a rich inventor, she decides to use her skills to help the girl. Robyn’s rescue operation hits several snags. Meanwhile, she has to teach her daughter a lesson when the girl gets into trouble.
Streaming on Netflix, BIGFOOT FAMILY is the animated sequel to SON OF BIGFOOT and follows Bigfoot as he uses his fame to fight against an oil company. The oil company claims they are using new technology in Alaska that has zero impact on the environment. However, some protestors ask Bigfoot if he can use his influence to uncover the oil company’s secrets. Bigfoot goes to Alaska and builds an ample crowd outside the company oil site gate. However, Bigfoot goes missing. So, Bigfoot’s son, his wife and his old friends the bear and raccoon come to his rescue. As they search for Bigfoot, they could stumble across something that could help the cause against the oil company.
THE GIRL WHO BELIEVES IN MIRACLES introduces a girl named Sara who has a strong Christian faith. Sara finds out she can perform miracles after she prays to God to heal a dead bird. Throughout the movie, Sara heals injured animals, blind children and children who are paralyzed or gravely sick. Sara’s family becomes concerned when Sara falls ill and faints. They find out Sara has an inoperable brain tumor that could take her life. After performing many miracles in her community, Sara will need a miracle to survive.
GODZILLA VS. KONG starts with Godzilla going on a rampage against the Apex Corporation, a powerful company studying his atomic energy. The head of the company finds that the origin to Godzilla’s energy is located in the original Hollow Earth home of Godzilla and King Kong. So, he provides some special flying machines to help some scientists take Kong to an entrance into the Hollow Earth. Hopefully, Kong can guide them. However, Kong is wary of humans, except for a little deaf girl who can talk to him using sign language. Also, Godzilla and Kong’s ancestors were mortal enemies, so Godzilla wants to use his fiery energy to destroy Kong.
LOVE AT SUNSET TERRACE is a family-friendly movie on UPtv about Sophie, who lives a fast-paced life as an interior designer in Los Angeles. Sophie plans to take a digital detox by visiting Summerside, a small town where she spent much time with her grandmother. On arrival, Sophie meets a spunky girl named Kailey and her widowed father, Michael, who host Sophie at their bed and breakfast. Sophie inspires Michael to host events at the bed and breakfast and spruce up the beloved town attraction. Michael and Sophie grow close. Will Sophie choose to stay in Summerside or return to her hectic life in Los Angeles?
THE MIGHTY DUCKS: GAME CHANGERS is a new TV series on Disne+ based on the popular 1990s family movies. “Game On,” the first episode, introduces a tween boy named Evan, who gets cut from the successful junior Mighty Ducks hockey team. The Ducks are local legends, so getting cut is a bummer for Evan. Until his mother, Alex, comes up with the idea of forming a new team! That leaves a few questions. Who will play, who will coach, and where will they practice? Evan’s mother finds a rundown ice rink owned by George Ramsey, the former MIGHTY DUCKS alum and coach.
A WEEK AWAY is a musical streaming on Netflix. Will is a troubled teenager who’s committed crimes and caused problems at schools and in foster homes throughout his life. When a family offers to put him in a Christian summer camp rather than being sent to juvenile detention, Will agree with trepidation. Will arrives at camp and meets Avery. Avery has a twinkle in her eye, and Will likes her but another teenage boy, Sean, is interested in her as well. Will wonders if he will be able to connect with Avery and wonders if she will accept his troubled past.
Set in 1939, THE DIG focuses on Basil Brown, an amateur archaeologist who works for Ipswich Museum on England’s eastern coast. Basil is hired by a wealthy, widowed landowner, Edith Pretty, to excavate the apparent funeral mounds on her large estate. Basil makes an incredible discovery when he uncovers an artifact-laden, royal burial ship from the Sixth Century. However, as World War II approaches, Basil gets pushed to the side when national experts from the British Museum arrive. Meanwhile, Edith, who has a cute young son, finds out she has a heart condition that could be fatal.
ZACK SNYDER’S JUSTICE LEAGUE is a new, action packed four-hour version on HBO Max of the 2017 movie about Batman and Wonder Woman gathering a team of superheroes and resurrecting Superman to stop a demonic, alien supervillain. The supervillain, called Steppenwolf, is searching for three hidden boxes with world-shattering power when brought together. He wants to use the powerful alien technology to remake Earth and pave the way for an more powerful demonic villain, Darkseid. Eventually, Batman decides to resurrect Superman to be victorious. However, his plan may backfire.
CRISIS is a suspenseful, satisfying crime drama. Claire is an architect and recovering opioid addict investigating her son’s allegedly accidental overdose. The police aren’t helpful. So, she hires a private investigator, who discovers her son was knocked out and probably force-fed the drugs. The son’s cellphone leads Claire to three teenagers smuggling drugs for a Montreal drug lord. The drug lord is the target of a United States sting operation led by an undercover agent. Meanwhile, a research scientist finds something wrong with a new, allegedly safe pain medication designed to replace opioids. If he exposes the truth, he could lose everything.
DARK STATE is a political drama about a reporter investigating a mysterious car accident with worldwide significance. New Jersey reporter Alicia Gazzarro wants to investigate three men killed in a car accident with a young up-and-coming starlet, Katie Morro, who barely survived. One man was heir to a top pharmaceutical company, another was a top military intelligence man and co-author of THE SATANIC BIBLE, and the third man claimed to be an assassin-for-hire. Alicia discovers that all of them were connected to a satanic cabal of globalists and media elites trying to rule the world. Eventually, Alicia must decide whether to fight the cabal or join it.
THE SET-UP is a classic 1949 film noir about a down-and-out boxer who keeps thinking he needs just one more chance. Robert Ryan plays Bill “Stoker” Thompson, a down-and-out fighter going from one fringe boxing arena to another. Stoker keeps thinking he can win his next fight, but his wife, Julie, begs him to stop. Stoker ignores her and says he can win his next bout in Paradise City against Tiger Nelson. Meanwhile, Stoker’s manager, Tiny, makes a deal complete with cash with Little Boy, the local crime lord, for Bill to throw the match in the third round.
THE COURIER is a captivating, powerful spy drama and thriller. In 1961, American and British spies recruit an unassuming British businessman, Greville Wynne, to ferry small packages and messages from a Soviet official who’s concerned about his country’s increasing belligerence against the West under Nikita Khrushchev. Oleg Penkovsky, a member of the Soviet Union’s military intelligence agency, wants to warn the West about Khrushchev’s intentions to cause trouble. As Oleg and Greville build a strong friendship, the tension on them mounts when the KGB learns there’s a traitor in their midst. Will the two men be caught?
RESURRECTION is an entertaining movie version of the Resurrection of Jesus Christ, streaming on Discovery+. The movie starts with a visualization of Roman power in Jerusalem. Quickly, it moves to Jesus’ arrest, Caiaphas asking Jesus if He’s the Messiah, and Jesus responding, “I am.” Jesus is crucified, Peter denies Jesus, and the apostles wonder what to do next. After three days, Mary Magdalen goes to the tomb and finds it empty. Mary reports to the apostles she’s actually seen Jesus alive, but they don’t believe her. They soon discover the truth for themselves.
THE TRUFFLE HUNTERS is an Italian documentary. It offers unique insights into the lives of a handful of elderly men, their dogs, and the joys and trials of truffle hunting in the forests of Piedmont, Italy. The men in the remote village are a remnant of a long generational legacy of truffle hunting. At the same time, the demand for the delicacy increases around them. While some are motivated by money, most of the old hunters love their time in nature with their skilled dogs, and the smell of truffle. However, with few young people taking up the mantle and few old people willing to relinquish their secrets, the practice only grows more coveted.
CHAOS WALKING is a dystopian science fiction thriller set in the future on a planet, where men’s thoughts are heard by anyone and everyone. The protagonist, Todd, works to control his thoughts when a female from another planet crashes into his world. However, the mayor of Todd’s town has an aversion to this woman and chases after her. Todd helps her get away. He leaves his family and learns the truth about his community and the mayor.
LEADERS FOR LIFE is a powerful and often hard documentary to watch about the value of life and the fight to end abortion from the perspective of values. Several pro-life advocates, including Kevin and Sam Sorbo and Flip, David and Jason Benham, and others present arguments in LEADERS FOR LIFE for the pro-life cause by citing past court cases, technology and biblical evidence.
THE MAURITANIAN is a drama about a terrorist case. In November 2001, Mohamedou Slahi, a former al-Qaeda member, enjoys a relative’s wedding in Mauritania, in the northwestern part of Africa. Government officials ask Slahi to submit to questions about al-Qaeda and its September 11 attack on America. They and the FBI question Slahi for seven days. Then, he’s unexpectedly imprisoned in Jordan, then Guantanamo Bay for more questions. Eventually, an American lawyer takes Slahi’s case. However, it takes years to find any proof supporting Slahi’s claims he was beaten and sexually abused to elicit a fake confession.
FINDING MANNY is an hour-long documentary about a Holocaust survivor named Manny living in Toronto, Canada and about to turn 90 years old. Manny is contacted by Anna at a children’s school in Germany who’s been looking for Holocaust survivors so they can come and speak at the school. She wants Manny to help the children in the school and the surrounding village understand the Holocaust. At first, Manny doesn’t want to go because of all the painful memories. However, he finally concludes that he needs to go. The visit to Germany and Poland reacquaints Manny with his past and gives his family a new perspective on Manny's life.
THE MOON-SPINNERS is a classic 1964 adventure mystery from Disney. A young woman named Nikky Ferris visits the island of Crete to vacation with her Aunt Frances. Nikky meets a young man named Mark Camford. Mark reveals he’s been framed for stealing a rare emerald necklace and is being targeted by the real criminal, who lives on Crete. To her surprise, Nikky becomes involved in the adventure of a lifetime, when she decides to help Mark catch the villain.
SKI BUM is a surprisingly exciting autobiographical documentary on Amazon Prime about Warren Miller. Warren’s ski documentaries fascinated people all over America. His life was full of hardship, which he always overcame. Warren Miller died in 2018 at the age of 93. The filmmakers were able to interview him months earlier, however. Warren discusses growing up in a dysfunctional home with an alcoholic father. The movie details how Warren came to make the ski documentaries that fascinated so many people. It also details his professional career and personal life.
In THE SPONGEBOB MOVIE: SPONGE ON THE RUN, Plankton discovers that SpongeBob is the one who’s always foiling his plans to steal the secret Krabby Patty formula. So, when King Poseidon needs a snail’s secretions to keep his skin looking new, Plankton kidnaps SpongeBob’s beloved pet snail, Gary. SpongeBob and his friend, Patrick, must travel to the Kings palace in the Lost City of Atlantic City to rescue Gary. However, they face some comical challenges and temptations along the way.
DOLPHIN ISLAND is a delightful family movie on various streaming platforms and Video on Demand. Annabel, a 14-year-old girl, and her grandfather, Jonah, look after a marine conservation center on a tropical island. Trouble begins when Annabel’s wealthy New York grandparents decide they want Annabel to live with them. Annabel wants to stay on the island with her grandfather and her dolphin friends. Will Annabel remain on the island or be forced to go with her relatives to New York?
YES DAY is a family comedy streaming on Netflix about parents who say yes to their children for one whole day. Allison and Carlos find themselves saying no constantly to their three children. When they find out about a day where parents say yes to their kids, within guidelines, they decide to take the challenge. However, Katie, their teenage daughter, doesn’t think they can do it. Allison promises Katie can attend a concert festival with her friend if she fails the challenge.
TOM AND JERRY (2021) is a live-action comedy streaming on HBO Max and starring the famous cartoon cat and mouse. Tom and Jerry start living in a fancy New York City hotel, but a cook finds out about Jerry. Kayla, the hotel’s new event planner, tries to use Tom to get rid of Jerry, to save a high profile celebrity wedding scheduled for the hotel. Will they succeed with flying colors? Or, will Jerry get into other mischief?
CHURCH PEOPLE is a satirical faith-based comedy. Guy is a young man who goes on tour as “America’s youth pastor.” However, Guy senses his ministry becoming more about the show and less about Jesus and His Gospel. Returning home, Guy realizes his senior pastor, Skip, has bought into the megachurch marketing machine. At first, Guy wants to leave the church, but he still has work to do with youth group. Pastor Skip is willing to do whatever it takes to sell Christianity, even stage an Easter crucifixion. Guy assembles an unlikely team to overcome Pastor Skip’s crazy notions and point people to the real Gospel.
MY BROTHER’S KEEPER (2021) tells the story of Travis Fox and his struggle with PTSD as he tries to find his way back to purpose, meaning and faith. Travis Fox and his friend, Ron “Preach” Pearcy, are in their sixth combat deployment. Preach asks if Travis would pray for him and his platoon. Travis responds by saying he doesn’t believe in the Bible. Sadly, Preach is killed in an ambush. Travis returns to his hometown to find his best friend and the town are controlled by rival gangs. However, his real enemy is PTSD. Travis believes life is hopeless until he befriends a church counselor.
BLIZZARD OF SOULS is a Latvian war movie set during World War I. Artur is a naïve 16-year-old boy who’s approaching early adulthood. After his mother is traumatically killed by German soldiers, Artur, his brother Edgar and his father enlist in the Latvian military to fight in The Great War. Artur quickly learns his impression of war is far from the truth, and that war is merciless, painful, morbid, and unsparing. Little does he know that his entire life will change.
ROE V. WADE is a historical drama that follows the events leading up to the groundbreaking 1973 Supreme Court case which would legalize abortion in the United States. Dr. Bernard Nathanson and Dr. Mildred Jefferson square off in a national battle between the pro-life and pro-abortion camps. The movie seeks to uncover the truth about the landmark court ruling and reveal the various motivations, lies and connections surrounding the event.
RAYA [“Rye-ya”] AND THE LAST DRAGON is an animated fantasy adventure from Disney. In the land of Kumandra, humans and dragons lived together long ago in harmony. However, when an evil force threatened the land and its people, five dragons sacrificed themselves to save humanity. 500 years later, the evil has returned. It’s up to one lone warrior, Raya, to track down the legendary last dragon to restore the fractured land and its divided people. Along her journey, Raya learns it will take more than a dragon to save the world. It’s going to take trust.
HINT OF LOVE is a new romantic comedy on UPtv. Becky Bayer and Will Fryer are polar opposites in the cooking world. Becky is a prestigious cookbook editor. Will has a simple online cooking show for single parents. Their paths cross when Becky’s editing company assigns her to edit and design Will’s latest cookbook for single fathers. Although Becky and Will have contrasting ideas and styles, it only takes a “hint of love” for the two to become an extraordinary team.
THE HOUSE THAT ROB BUILT is a short documentary. It follows the career of Robin “Rob” Selvig, who coached the Lady Griz women’s basketball team at the University of Montana for 38 years, with over 865 wins to his name. When Selvig was hired, women’s basketball wasn’t nationally recognized by the NCAA. However, Selvig’s vigor for top-notch playing paved the way for collegiate women to have a place on the court, inspiring generations of women.
FLORA & ULYSSES is a family comedy streaming on Disney Plus. Flora, a 10-year-old girl, is upset because her parents have separated. Her father can’t find anyone to publish his superhero comic books. With her father out of the house, Flora’s mother, a successful romance novelist, has lost her romantic muse. As a result, she’s developed a severe case of writer’s block. One day, Flora revives a squirrel who was hit on the head and sucked up by a rogue vacuum cleaner with artificial intelligence. The incident gives the squirrel superpowers and the ability to understand human language. However, a mean animal control officer is after the squirrel, because a crazy waitress thinks the squirrel has rabies.
FEAR OF RAIN is a psychological thriller about a schizophrenic high school teenager named Rain who has episodes that take her in and out of reality. Rain’s delusional episodes get worse whenever she doesn’t take her medication. One evening, Rain hears a scream from the house next door, which is owned by her female teacher. Rain begins to believe her teacher has kidnapped an innocent young girl. Rain hatches a scheme to sneak into her home to verify her suspicions. Are Rain’s suspicions real, or is she just suffering from schizophrenia?
LAND opens on a fortysomething woman named Edee talking to her therapist. Edee says she’s tired of everyone wanting her to feel better. Cut to Edee on the street and then in her vehicle. She appears to be venturing into the Rocky Mountains. Edee strives to live alone, completely off the grid, but her city roots and inexperience are a disadvantage. It’s not until she almost dies, that Edee starts to get the hang of her new lifestyle and face the painful experiences haunting her.
TO ALL THE BOYS: ALWAYS AND FOREVER is a romantic comedy streaming on Netflix. Lara Jean is a high school senior who looks to the future with both fear and excitement for what’s to come. However, when Lara Jean doesn’t get into Stanford like her boyfriend, she’s forced to come to change her expectations for college, both romantically and pragmatically. With graduation looming around the corner, Lara Jean experiences a host of emotions that keep viewers rooting for a happy ending.
SOUND OF METAL is a drama about a heavy metal drummer whose life is thrown into turmoil when he starts losing his hearing. A doctor tells him his hearing will be gone forever if he keeps drumming. The doctor tells Ruben that hearing implants are very expensive, and there’s no guarantee how well they will work. Reluctantly, Ruben, a heroin addict who’s been sober for four years, leaves his girlfriend, the lead singer in his band, and signs up to stay at a deaf home for addicts in the country. The home is affiliated with a church. Ruben eventually gets into the swing of things and seems to be accepted. However, he’s still considering getting the implants and returning to his previous life.
In SHEDDING, a bored house cat longs to explore the outside world. One day, he escapes his home after mysteriously changing into a young man. The outside world is strange to him, but he runs into a woman who has an attachment to him. She clothes him and cares for him as one of her own. When the woman’s daughter arrives home, she tells her mother to persist, because her son isn’t returning. In the confusion, the daughter lashes out at the young man, and he runs away. The daughter and her mother must learn how to overcome their crippling grief.
The third-season “Rules of Engagement” episode of the SEAL TEAM series on CBS-TV is a dramatic episode with personal and international significance. The episode opens with Jason Hayes, the leader of Bravo Team, still suffering from PTSD. He has a nightmare one night. Natalie, Jason’s girlfriend, comforts him, but he doesn’t want to discuss the details. Jason and Bravo Team are ordered to Niger to protect an important dam and some American engineers from an immanent Islamic terrorist attack. The attack is being led by a Russian operative. Before they go, several team members undergo their own personal challenges.
STORM WARNING is a gritty 1951 crime drama. Ginger Rogers plays Marsha Mitchell, a model who stops at a small town to visit her sister, Lucy, and meet Lucy’s husband. Upon arriving, Marsha witnesses a Ku Klux Klan murder where two men remove their hoods. When Marsha meets Lucy’s husband, she recognizes him as one of the two men. He admits he was at the scene but says he didn’t shoot the victim and thought they were only going to scare the man, an undercover journalist. Burt Rainey, the county prosecutor played by Ronald Reagan, finds Marsha as a witness. However, Marsha doesn’t want to hurt her sister. Will she do the right thing?
FINDING ‘OHANA is a fun adventure movie streaming on Netflix about four young people looking for treasure in Hawaii. Pili and her brother go to Hawaii to help out their aging grandfather. While the whole family is together, memories and photos of their father keep showing up. Their father passed away years ago, and they still hold him dear to their hearts. When Pili looks through her grandfather’s old trailer, she finds a journal that mentions a treasure on the big island in Hawaii. Pili believes she can help her grandfather and family if she finds this treasure, with help from two friends and her brother.
PRIDE & PREJUDICE is another wonderful version of Jane Austen’s beloved novel. Keira Knightly stars as Elizabeth, the second eldest of the five Bennet sisters. Elizabeth helps the eldest daughter, Jane, woo the rich Mr. Bingley, who has taken residence in the countryside where the Bennets live. Bingley's sister, Caroline, clearly disapproves of Jane and the Bennet family, but it is his friend Mr. Darcy who convinces Bingley to break off the relationship. Elizabeth is furious when she hears, from Darcy’s own lips, about his meddling. It has become clear, however, that Darcy has fallen in love with her. Can they overcome their pride and prejudice to find true happiness?
LOVE IS A PIECE OF CAKE is a television movie on UPtv. Jessie Dale, a third-generation baker, loves her grandmother’s bakery more than anything. Business is pretty steady. However, when developers want to acquire her building, Jessie could lose her grandmother’s building. Despite this, Jessie has a supportive team and some great business opportunities that give her hope. Aidan, her biggest client’s widowed brother, and his young daughter start visiting the shop, and Jessie starts to fall in love with Aidan. As Jessie juggles this budding romance and her business, unexpected events force her to make one of the most challenging decisions of her life.
TRAFFICKED: A PARENT’S WORST NIGHTMARE is a drama about human trafficking. It follows Allison, a teenage girl with a bright future who dreams of becoming a veterinarian. On the eve of her 16th birthday, Allison sneaks out to see a boy she’s met online. Her parents wake up only to find that their daughter is missing. They call the police, but they seem passive, encouraging Allison’s father to hire a private investigator, John Belton. Belton’s prices are steep, but they are desperate to find their daughter. After months of searching, praying and losing hope, Belton finds a lead that might result in Allison seeing her family again.
DEAR COMRADES! is a Russian movie that takes place in 1962 in a small industrial town in Communist Russia. Lyuda, a communist party loyalist and official, believes the State can do no wrong, but she gets many perks of course. When the party decides to increase prices but lower factory wages, the workers decide to strike, including Lyuda’s daughter. The party sends in armed troops. Crisis after crisis occurs, until the KGB-led soldiers brutally shoot many of the marchers. Lyuda is concerned because her daughter is missing. Will she continue to be committed to socialist lies?
SONGS OF SOLOMON is a powerful drama from Armenia. It’s about an orphaned Armenian Christian boy, Solomon Komitas, who grows up to be known as the savior of Armenian music and the founder and creator of ethno-musicology. The archbishop notices Solomon’s beautiful singing voice when he is an orphan, so Solomon attends seminary. Thirteen years later, in 1894, the Ottoman Turks call for the extermination of the Armenian Christians. Some of Solomon’s friends become victims of the genocide. Another genocide occurs in 1915. It envelops Solomon, who by then has become an archbishop himself.
NOMADLAND stars Frances McDormand. She plays Fern, a fiftysomething woman who goes on the road in a van after losing her job at a Nevada sheetrock plant. Fern heads to the Arizona desert to visit a van-dwelling community for retirees and similar people. Later, at a wildlife park, Fern runs into Dave, a man she knew at the sheetrock plant. Dave invites her to see his family. Fern agrees but visits her own family first. Fern still feels an urge to keep moving, but from what and where to, are the questions.
THE LAST SHIFT begins with Stanley, a sixtysomething white man working hard on the graveyard shift at a local fast-food restaurant called Oscar’s Chicken and Fish in Albion, Michigan. Meanwhile, Jevon, a young black man, meets with his parole officer about getting work. He says he’s planning to train at Oscar’s. Jevon needs the job to comply with his parole but also take care of his toddler son and appease his son’s mother. When Jevon shows up for training, the unlikely duo form a camaraderie that makes them think about where they are in their lives. Their differences eventually divide them, however.
LETTERS TO DANIEL is based on an autobiographical memoir. A young woman named Amy moves to Austin, Texas in 1999. She hopes to start production on a movie with her friend, Missy. Their finances are low, which leads to many struggles, including problems in their friendship. Making matters worse, Amy has been diagnosed with bi-polar disorder. Amy writes letters to British actor Daniel Craig about her struggles, which helps her cope them.
BLUEPRINT TO THE HEART is a romantic comedy on UPtv. Laura Mitchell stars as Tiffany, an interior designer trying to save her home renovation program on the Home Design Channel. Tiffany’s ratings are down, despite Tiffany being the perfect person for the show. The network sends her some help to boost ratings. However, the help may do more harm than good because it includes her ex-boyfriend as the new producer. The new strategy is to take home renovation to the next level and renovate someone’s entire life. Brooks, one of Tiffany’s replacement carpenters, seems like a perfect fit, but he and Tiffany could not be more different. Will they be able to work together?
WE CAN BE HEROES is a TV movie for families streaming on Netflix. During an alien invasion, all of America’s superheroes are defeated and captured. Now, it’s up to their children to stop the aliens. Using their super powers, the children steal an alien spaceship. They decide to fly to the alien mother ship to find a way to rescue their parents and save the world.
ASSASSINS is a fascinating, surprisingly exciting documentary about the assassination of the brother of the president and dictator of North Korea at the Malaysian airport in 2017. In the movie, a reporter investigates the case, talking to lawyers for the two young women accused of poisoning the brother with the lethal VX nerve agent. Video footage from the airport cameras clearly show the two women putting their hands on Nam’s face. The long but interesting court case results in a guilty verdict, but an incredible number of unexpected events occur, implicating Indonesia and Vietnam, not just North Korea.
THE BABY PROPOSAL is a romantic comedy on UPtv about two Chicago morning show hosts who clash over different working styles. Layla and Derrick are considered to host a popular network program. Tensions rise about who will get the job. As the two prepare for their career-changing opportunity, one of their biggest fans drops off her daughter’s baby after the baby’s mother dies. Derrick’s sister and her husband offer to adopt the baby, but they’re stuck at an airport. For one week, Layla and Derrick must work together to take care of the baby.
In the first episode of WANDAVISION on Disney+, Wanda and Vision, two Marvel superheroes, get married and try to settle in an old fashioned small town in America. Wanda and Vision don’t seem to know why they do what they do or where they are. They don’t pay it too much attention, though. They have other concerns on their plates. The pair see their wall calendar has a heart on it for today. Wanda thinks it might be their anniversary. However, at work, Vision finds out that his boss, Mr. Hart, is bringing his wife over for dinner.
Set 15 years into the future, OUTSIDE THE WIRE follows a military captain, Leo, and an Air Force drone pilot, Lieutenant Thomas Harp. After making a drone mistake, Harp is sent to Eastern Europe to help keep the peace during a civil war over Ukraine. Captain Leo reveals to Harp that he’s a classified android made by the United States government. This causes Harp to wonder how Leo’s technological makeup will impact the people they need to protect. Leo convinces Harp to destroy the chip the military uses to track him. At the time Harp doesn’t think much about it, until Leo goes rogue and civilians and the United States are put in danger.
THE FATHER stars Anthony Hopkins as a man falling into the extreme stages of dementia. His daughter, Anne, takes care of her father, Anthony, first in his apartment, then in the apartment where Anthony lives with her and her husband, Paul. Years and events are conflated. Also, Anthony forgets who people are and thinks people are lying to him. Slowly, Anthony’s dementia increases. His memories intrude on reality. Finally, in a gigantic care facility, the nurse and orderly turn out to be Anne and Paul. “What will become of me?” he asks.
“The Hunt” is one of our favorite TWILIGHT ZONE episodes. Character actor Arthur Hunnicutt stars as Hyder Simpson, a backwoods man who lives in a small Appalachian cabin with his wife of 50 years, Rachel. One evening after dinner, Hyder and his dog, Rip, go raccoon hunting. Hyder jumps into a stream to rescue Rip. However, the next morning he and Rip are invisible to everyone, including Rachel, who’s dressed in black. Hyder ends up walking Eternity Road, where he experiences of Heaven and Hell.
THE GIFT OF CHRISTMAS is a faith-based drama available on Amazon Prime. It opens on George and Denise preparing for Christmas. Both will face some unexpected challenges to their Christmas celebrations. George’s brother, Allen, a studio guitarist in Los Angeles, has promised to return to Kentucky. At the same time, George learns his friend, Don, is worried about his estranged daughter, Celia, who left for Los Angeles after a major argument. George fashions a plan for Allen to drive home and bring Celia with him. Meanwhile, George doesn’t get along with his in-laws, who are staying for the holidays. Eventually, people realize that forgiveness and trusting God will save their Christmas.
OUR FRIEND is a drama inspired by a true story. Dane Faucheux, a former theater tech operator, moves from New Orleans to Alabama to be with his friends, Nicole and Matt Teague, and their two daughters. In 2012, Nicole is diagnosed with cancer. Her diagnosis impacts the Teague family drastically, including Matt and Nicole’s two young daughters. Dane helps the family navigate this trying time with resolve and compassion, but that doesn’t always mean things are easy for everyone.
In Disney’s 1960 classic SWISS FAMILY ROBINSON, the Robinson family is shipwrecked on the shore of a deserted island in the early 1800s. Together as a family, the Robinsons learn to survive off the land and create a home on the island. However, trouble begins as a group of pirates threatens their home and endangers the life of their new friend, a teenage girl who was held captive by the pirates.
WONDER WOMAN 1984 takes Diana Prince, also known as Wonder Woman, from World War I to 1984. In 1984, a power-obsessed con man gets his hands on a magical artifact from Ancient Rome that makes a person’s biggest wish come true. The wishes always come with a price, however. The con man’s use of this magical power threatens to destroy the world.
Set in the 1980s, MINARI is an autobiographical drama in Korean and English. Jacob Yi is a Korean immigrant who moves his family from California to Rural Arkansas to pursue his dream of becoming a farmer. However, the farm he’s bought only has an elongated mobile home for the family. Jacob’s wife, Monica, isn’t happy about this situation.
THE MARKSMAN stars Liam Neeson as Jim Hanson, a recently widowed Arizona rancher and former Marine. Jim tries to protect a Mexican woman and her son, Miguel, from drug cartel thugs at the southern border. A gunfight ensues, and Jim drives off the thugs, but the mother dies from a gunshot wound. Before she dies, Jim promises her he’ll do what he can to help Miguel get safely to her sister in Chicago. However, the drug cartel thugs are hot on their trail.
I’M YOUR WOMAN is a crime drama set in the 1970s. Jean and her husband, Eddie, can’t have children, but one day Eddie comes home with a baby boy. Jean, who’s not ready to be a mother, jumps into the deep end of taking care of the child. However, her situation is complicated when her husband goes missing, and she’s told to flee for her life. Jean and the baby embark on a dangerous game of cat and mouse trying to keep away from the dangerous criminals looking for her missing husband.
HERSELF is an Irish drama about a battered mother trying to construct a home for her two young, precious daughters. Suffering from PTSD, Sandra has won custody of her children after her husband, Gary, went to jail after roughing her up. She and her two daughters, Emma and Molly, live in a hotel, their housing expenses paid for by the government. One of Sandra’s two employers, a female doctor, offers to loan her the land and construction money so Sandra can secretly build her own house. Sandra’s husband sues her for custody when Emma suffers a small injury at the construction site.
PROMISING YOUNG WOMAN is a borderline revenge thriller. Cassie, the main character, is a 30-year-old medical school dropout who’s still traumatized by the rape and suicide of her childhood friend, Nina. Both girls attended med school together but dropped out when a drunken Nina was raped at a school party.
LET THEM ALL TALK is a drama streaming on HBO Max about a middle-aged novelist named Alice Hughes. Alice takes her two college gal pals, Susan and Roberta, and her nephew, Tyler, on a cruise to Great Britain to patch up old issues and receive a prestigious award. The only hiccup in Alice’s journey is that her literary agency, Karen, has sneaked on board to check on her. Alice’s supposed upcoming manuscript is nowhere to be found. Karen enlists Tyler’s help to find out why.
In the 1949 war drama, THE HASTY HEART, a group of soldiers from other countries come together to make the remaining days of a dying soldier named Lachie as happy as possible. The movie takes place at a hospital in Burma just after World War II.
IT’S A GIFT is a classic 1934 comedy starring W.C. Fields. Fields plays Harold Bissonette (“Biss-o-nay”). Harold is a henpecked husband and harried father and shopkeeper who secretly sells his general store and blindly buys an orange grove farm in Los Angeles.
THE SLEEPOVER is an action comedy streaming on Netflix. Clancy is in ninth grade and is having trouble communicating with her mother. Clancy’s brother, Kevin, is in middle school and tries not to let things get to him, even when he’s bullied. When Kevin’s best friend, Lewis, comes over for a sleepover, Lewis overhears some bad guys capturing Clancy and Kevin’s mom, Margot, and their dad, Ron. The kidnappers are forcing Margot and Ron to steal a very important crown at an upcoming gala. Kevin and Clancy follow some clues. They must figure out how to help their parents.
Set in New Orleans, PROJECT POWER is a science fiction thriller streaming on Netflix about a pill that gives people supernatural powers for five minutes. A man named Art goes looking for the supplier of these power pills, who’s kidnapped Art’s daughter. His search leads him to a teenage dealer named Robin, who’s been dealing the superpower pills to provide money for an operation her diabetic mother needs. Meanwhile, Frank, a police officer and friend of Robin’s, uncovers leads to find the pill supplier and protect the French Quarter from the bad guys.
TESLA is a surrealistic, European style movie about the famed inventor Nikola Tesla, a contemporary of Thomas Edison. The movie starts with Tesla experiencing electricity while petting a black cat. Next, he’s roller skating with a beautiful woman. Cut to nine years earlier in 1884 with Thomas Edison making a breakthrough developing the lightbulb when Tesla joined Edison’s team. After leaving Edison, Tesla forms a deal with George Westinghouse to develop Tesla’s alternating current. Westinghouse and Tesla get the contract for the Chicago World’s Fair. Then, Tesla moves to Colorado to test his theory that the Earth and the sky can become a giant electrical circuit.
BOMBARDIER BLOOD is a documentary about a special mountain climber named Chris Bombardier, who suffers from hemophilia, the severe bleeding disorder. Chris travels to South America, North America, Africa, Europe, Antarctica, Australia, and Asia to raise awareness for the disorder and to be the first hemophiliac to climb the highest peaks in each continent. The documentary takes viewers through the history of hemophilia and through Chris’s life, including all the obstacles and accomplishments he’s had. Hemophilia affects about one in every 10,000 births. Without infusion of blood clotting medicine called Factor, hemophilia can result in uncontrolled bleeding, joint deformity and death.
SWITCHED is a family-friendly, faith-based comedy available on digital and Video on Demand. Cassandra Evans and Katie Sharp are as different as it gets. Cassandra is an unpopular, musically gifted church girl. Katie is a popular social media influencer with no consideration for others. One day while at school, Katie dumps spoiled milk onto Cassandra and films it. Katie’s video goes viral, which hurts Cassandra. That night Cassandra prays that Katie one day will learn to walk in her shoes. To Cassandra’s surprise, her prayers get answered the next day when she and Katie switch bodies.
EVERYDAY MIRACLES follows a young faith healer named Cotton, as he tries to escape his past and start over. He gets a job on a family farm run by a widowed man and his daughter. However, Cotton’s mother hunts him down and will do everything in her power to get her money-making son back on the road with her revival business. Cotton must confront the past he left behind while finding a way to continue to live the new life he’s found for himself.
MADE IN ITALY is a light drama about an estranged father and son in London who travel to Tuscany, Italy. The son, Jack, wants to sell the little villa they inherited from the son’s mother, who died in a car accident when Jack was seven. Jack wants to use the money to buy his ex-wife’s art gallery, which Jack’s been managing. Jack and his father, Robert, discover the house is in disrepair. They undertake fixing up the house. Meanwhile, Jack meets Nathalia, the beautiful owner of a nearby restaurant. Like Jack, Nathalia is divorced, with a little daughter whose custody she splits with her husband.
WAITING FOR THE BARBARIANS follows a magistrate of an unnamed empire who wrestles with his superior’s treatment of the native people in his designated outpost. The magistrate tells his superior, Colonel Joll, that the native people aren’t a big concern to the outpost because they migrate annually. However, Joll isn’t convinced. After the magistrate cares for an abused native girl and returns her to her people, Joll and his fellow officers turn on the magistrate, despite his assertions that their ways are malicious and without cause.
ANIMAL CRACKERS (2020) is an enjoyable, funny animated movie on Netflix. A man named Owen falls in love at his aunt and uncle’s circus. Owen and Zoe always envisioned their lives as circus performers until they got married, and Owen decides to take a “serious” job working for Zoe’s father. The death of Owen’s aunt and uncle brings Owen and Zoe back to the circus. However, Owen discovers that his uncle’s evil brother, Horatio, wants the circus to use it to glorify his own act. A magical box of animal crackers could be the answer to Owen and Zoe’s troubles.
WORK IT is a movie streaming on Netflix about a teenager who wants to attend her father’s college alma mater. Quinn wants to go to Duke University, but the admissions counselor tells her she must stand apart, so she decides to enter a high school dance competition called “Work It.” Quinn tries out for her high school’s dance team, but they reject her. However, Quinn’s best friend, Jazz, agrees to quit the dance team and create a new team with Quinn. They enlist a ragtag group of dancers that have natural talent, except for Quinn. Can they qualify for the competition?
Based on a Harlequin romance novel, LOVE BY ACCIDENT follows Daphne and her godmother Fran after they crash their motor home in a small Midwest town. The doctor tells Fran she needs a few days’ rest. So, Daphne convinces Fran to actually rest by fake dating the town mechanic, Matt, who just so happens to be fixing their motor home. However, the fake dating doesn’t seem so fake after all as Daphne and Matt begin to develop feelings for one another.
CRAFTOPIA is a children’s crafting competition series on HBO Max. The program in-cludes eight episodes that each run about 25 minutes long. During the short segments, young contestants display their crafting abilities while competing to win prizes. During the first round, three contestants compete in a one hour “quick craft.” During the second round, crafters complete a more challenging two-hour project. CRAFTOPIA is hosted by popular YouTube craft blogger, Lauren Riihimaki, with two regular judges and some guest judges.
GORDON LIGHTFOOT: IF YOU COULD READ MY MIND is a documentary about the Canadian singer and songwriter. Lightfoot is considered one of the best folk slash country composers and lyricists, behind only Bob Dylan and Johnny Cash. The movie details his career, starting with his singing as a choirboy in a local church in his hometown. With lots of talent and hard work, Lightfoot became a sensation during the folk music craze in the 1960s. Elvis Presley and Johnny Cash are among those who recorded his songs. Lightfoot’s popularity extended into the 1980s, and he’s still performing at 81 in crowded venues.
THE SECRET: DARE TO DREAM follows Miranda, a widowed mother who can barely make ends meet for her and her three children. When a mysterious man named Bray comes to town to give Miranda something important, he’s delayed by the tropical storm Hazel and the obstacles it causes. However, Bray has a secret that could change Miranda’s life forever. Bray also makes Miranda’s boyfriend, Tucker, jealous.
MAN IN THE ARENA is a documentary about the life of Roger Ailes, the famous TV producer who became a Republican media consultant for three presidents and created the Fox News Channel. The filmmakers use autobiographical recordings made by Ailes over a 30-year period. These recordings are accompanied by archival footage and old and new interviews with famous politicians and journalists such as Rudy Giuliani, Newt Gingrich, and Bill O’Reilly. The movie gives an account of Ailes’ life, starting with his humble beginnings in Ohio.
RADIOACTIVE is a new biography of the celebrated career of female scientist Marie Curie, who, with her scientific husband, Pierre, discovers two new elements and the principle of radioactivity. After meeting in 1893, Marie meets Pierre Curie. He becomes interested in both her and her work, which involves research on uranium and X-rays. They get married, have two daughters and win the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1903. However, their marital bliss is cut short when Pierre suddenly dies in an accident. Also, unknown to them, their work on radium and X-rays is slowly poisoning Marie.
BRINGING UP BATES: Roaring Bates and Pending Due Dates on UPtv features several major family milestones for the Christian family. The Bates family is celebrating births, homes and new relationships. The episode’s most powerful moment comes as Carlin Bates Stewart is admitted to the hospital earlier than expected to welcome her daughter, Layla Rae Stewart. After Layla is born, Carlin gives a passionate pro-life speech to the cameras about how we should celebrate a child’s birth and how motherhood is such a special gift meant to be treasured.
THE EPIC TALES OF CAPTAIN UNDERPANTS IN SPACE is a animated Netflix series based on the popular children’s books by Dav Pilkey. The series follows two best friends in elementary school, George and Harold. The boys love to pull pranks and go on adventures, but ultimately they want to do the right thing. Their mean Principal Krupp has a goofy superhero alter ego that the boys call Captain Underpants. Using hypnosis, the boys can summon Captain Underpants by snapping their fingers. In the series, the characters travel to outer space, where they encounter aliens, spaceships and adventure on other planets.
WORDS ON BATHROOM WALLS is an absorbing drama about a high school senior suffering from schizophrenia. Young Adam starts hearing voices and seeing people who aren’t there and is diagnosed as schizophrenic. His father abandons the family, leaving Adam and his mother alone. Cooking is the only thing that seems to silence the voices and visions. Adam is expelled from his high school after he suffers a breakdown. Adam gets a chance to fulfill his desire to go to culinary school with a new medication and a new opportunity to finish his secondary education at a Catholic school. The school’s female valedictorian helps Adam, as does the school’s priest.
RIDING FAITH follows Grace and her parents, Mike and Rebecca, as they buy a ranch and move to the country to have more family time. When Mike returns to the military for another tour, he’s killed in action, leaving Grace and Rebecca to run the ranch. Grace turns away from God, and Rebecca deals with their home about to be foreclosed by the bank. However, Pastor Williams isn’t going to let Rebecca and Grace deal with this struggle alone.
MUPPETS NOW is a new original TV series streaming on Disney+. “Fever Pitch,” the second episode, focuses on Scooter, who faces comical obstacles as he rushes to get the most recent content finished and uploaded on the new Muppet streaming service. The episode contains four different segments, each hosted by different Muppet characters. Some segments just make viewers laugh, while others offer nuggets of educational information and health and fitness tips.
THE VOICE: CHRIST IN YOU is a documentary that follows several Christian evangelists around the world as they practice the gifts of the Holy Spirit, such as prophecy, healing and miracles, which they believe are still active today. The documentary also delves into their personal conversion stories as they share how God called each of them to use their unique gift to reveal His voice, love and redemptive plan in people’s lives. Their stories are juxtaposed with interviews of influential Christian leaders such as Bill Johnson, Graham Cooke, Lisa Bevere, Brian Blount, and others, who discuss the biblical roots, power and benefits of prophecy in evangelism today.
A Netflix documentary series, Part 2 of BABIES continues to follow the babies from the previous season and how they mature and develop during their first year of life up until they’re toddlers. Like the previous season, each episode showcases different scientists and how they’re studying babies. Over the course of six episodes, audiences learn about things from how babies learn to move to when they understand desires.
GUEST OF HONOUR is a complex Canadian drama about a health inspector’s relationship with his guilt-ridden daughter. The movie opens with a Catholic priest discussing the funeral services for the health inspector with the man’s adult daughter. Veronica tells the priest her life story, including her relationship with her father. As a child, Veronica discovers a disappointing secret about her father. The discovery causes her to do a really bad thing to get back at him. Later, Veronica ends up going willingly to jail when she pulls a prank on a school bus driver with a student she teaches in a high school orchestra.
Set in 1989, MOST WANTED focuses on investigative journalist, Victor Malerek, as he tries to uncover the truth about a drug bust in Thailand. Daniel is the suspect. He claims he was working with the Canadian authorities at the time of his arrest, but they deny their involvement. Something smells fishy to Victor, so he travels to Thailand to see about things for himself. Will the threat of his family’s safety and the exposure of the Canadian officials prove too much for Victor and Daniel?
Released in 1941, ONE FOOT IN HEAVEN follows the life of Pastor William Spence who struggles to build his ministry while providing for his family. Despite prior plans to become a doctor and opposition from his fiancé’s parents, William and his new wife, Hope, move to Utah to become circuit pastors. The pastor’s life involves William and Hope with great joys as well as great obstacles of making ends meet, raising a family and dealing with conflicts from their congregations. When offered a better position in California, William refuses to run from hardship but chooses to accept adversity and build his church.
SINGIN’ IN THE RAIN transports viewers to a period when of Hollywood’s silent-movie era was coming to an end where famed actor Don Lockwood is at the peak of his success and falling in love with down to earth studio singer, Kathy Seldon. However, when his high-pitched, vain, jealous co-star, Lina Lamont, finds out about Don’s new love interest, Lina uses everything in her power to sabotage Kathy’s career. Don, Kathy and Lina all struggle to find their place in the new era of synchronized sound movies, also known as “the talkies.” Hilarious conflicts and schemes ensue.
KAIBIGAN is a faith-based movie on VOD that follows two teenage boys, Jake and David. After Jake gets expelled from his private school for drunk driving, he winds up at National High, a public school where David and several other Christian students go to public school. Regrettably, Jake struggles with the desire to seem cool to his peers and attract the attention of his busy father. David is a good role model for others. However, he’s his own worst enemy when it comes to achieving success in both the classroom and his personal life, including trying to meet his father’s high standards for behavior.
FATIMA is a drama about the apparitions of an angel and the Virgin Mary to three shepherd children near a small town in Portugal during World War I. In early 1917, an angel visits 10-year-old Lucia. The angel tells her to pray for peace. Then, the Virgin Mary appears to Lucia and her two younger cousins. Mary asks the children to return monthly to the same place for the next six months. Word of the apparitions spreads. They generate controversy with the children’s families, the town, their church, and with the secular, Anti-Christian government.
THE NOT-TOO-LATE SHOW WITH ELMO is an HBO Max original series that’s a spinoff from SESAME STREET. It features the Muppet character, Elmo, as a late-night talk show host. During 15-minute segments, original SESAME STREET characters and celebrity guests participate in games, activities and musical performances. The series has many heartwarming, redemptive elements. The love between family and friends is celebrat-ed. In one episode, Cookie Monster’s mother visits her son on set and receives a warm welcome from everyone. Leading by example, Elmo also teaches children about respecting your elders and obeying your parents.
UNCLE TOM is a documentary with interviews of African American conservatives from all walks of life. The movie opens with several conservatives discussing how people on the left call them an “Uncle Tom,” bootlicker, “House N*gro,” or other pejorative terms. Among other issues, the movie discusses the leftist campaign to smear conservative black leaders, the creation of the “race grievance industry” by liberals, the racist history of the Democrat Party, the negative impact of the welfare state on black communities and the black family, and the divisive nature of President Barack Obama’s racial policies.
REPENTANCE is a 1984 Russian movie made in the Georgian province of the old Soviet Union. In the story, the mayor of a small Georgian town dies and is buried. A day later, his corpse turns up and is secretly reburied. The corpse keeps returning. Eventually, the police capture a local woman. They accuse her of digging up the body. She says the mayor should not be buried, because his reign of terror led to the disappearance of many friends. She says the town must repent of the former mayor and his policies, not bury him.
The 1935 classic A TALE OF TWO CITIES is a brilliant version of the Charles Dickens novel. In the story, Sydney Carton, an alcoholic British lawyer in 1780 falls for Lucie Manette, whose father spent 18 years in prison for helping peasants abused by a wealthy French family, led by an evil Marquis. Lucie is being courted by Charles Darnay, who has denounced his uncle, the Marquis, and renounced the family name. Lucie marries Charles after Sydney saves Charles from being convicted of treason in England. When the French Revolution breaks out, the leftist revolutionaries trick Charles into visiting Paris to wipe out his whole family.
THE OLD GUARD follows a group of independent soldiers who can self-heal from any injury, which makes them significantly older than they appear. For obvious reasons, the soldiers try to stay under the radar while they travel the world helping other people. After a setup, the group learns that many people are hot on their trail, looking to exploit their abilities for personal gain. Andy (short for Andromeda) is the group’s ringleader. She tries to protect her team at all costs, but will her old age and the conflict take its toll?
In RELIC, an elderly woman, named Edna goes missing which concerns her daughter, Kay, and granddaughter, Sam, who come looking for her. The movie is set in Australia during an overcast season that mirrors the gravity of Edna’s situation. According to Edna’s daughter, Kay, Edna is getting forgetful in her old age. When Edna suddenly shows up at her house, Kay and Sam hunker down to get to the bottom of what’s really happening with Edna.
GREYHOUND is a war movie starring Tom Hanks as Ernest Krause, the first-time American captain of a lead battleship destroyer protecting a convoy of merchant ships and troop ships heading for England in February 1942 during World War II. For 50 hours, in the middle of the Atlantic Ocean, the convoy is without an air escort until it gets closer to England. As soon as the air cover stops, the convoy faces a “wolf pack” of seven German submarines. The German subs repeatedly attack.
HAMILTON follows a chronological narrative of the life and eventual death of Alexander Hamilton from previous recording of the Broadway show in 2016. Alexander Hamilton’s parents weren’t married upon his birth, and he became an orphan before immigrating to the US. Hamilton rose to political power with his zeal for new government policies. Hamilton starts his political career with humble means and eventually marries and helps found the Federalist Party and the National Treasury. All the while, he has a love/hate relationship with Aaron Burr, Thomas Jefferson’s first Vice President.
LOVE IN HARMONY VALLEY follows Will and Emma as they try to convince the people of Harmony Valley to approve a plan to reopen the town’s closed winery and bring new jobs and revenue to the people. Just when it looks like the plan is going to get approved, Emma’s grandmother, Rose, intercedes and could cause the whole thing to crash. Meanwhile, Will and Emma begin to develop feelings for one another while working together.
MR. JONES is a masterful historical drama about Gareth Jones, a British journalist in 1933 who travels to Moscow to interview murderous communist dictator Joseph Stalin. Jones wants to ask Stalin where he’s getting the money to build up the Soviet Union’s military and industrial strength. Jones travels to Ukraine and discovers that Stalin’s tyrannical rule has created a famine there. He exposes the truth back in London, but Walter Duranty, the notorious New York Times writer bribed by Stalin to make Stalin’s regime look good, successfully but falsely discredits Jones. Can Jones reclaim his reputation?
MUTINY ON THE BOUNTY stars Clark Gable and Charles Laughton in a 1935 movie based on the famous 1789 mutiny against a cruel captain in the British Navy. The Bounty sets sail for Tahiti to bring back some breadfruit plants to grow in the West Indies. During the voyage, the men chafe under the cruel treatment of Captain Bligh. They’d rather stay in the island paradise of Tahiti. However, on the way back to England, Bligh’s cruelty becomes unbearable, and the sailors mutiny. Learn more at https://www.movieguide.org/reviews/mutiny-on-the-bounty.html
“Panic! At the Putt Putt,” the eighth episode in Season Three of ALEXA & KATIE, follows the teenage girls as they take a break from studying for their SAT exams and go miniature golfing. Suddenly, Spencer shows up, and Alexa is taken aback because she just told him she wants to be just friends. Meanwhile, Katie’s mom, Jennifer, is having trouble with her porch door opening properly. A handyman comes over to fix it and does so until things all around the house keep malfunctioning. Will the characters get everything in order before the end of the school year? Learn more at https://www.movieguide.org/reviews/alexa-katie-episode-p3-8-panic-at-the-putt-putt.html
RETURN TO HARDWICK is a documentary about the 93rd Bomb Group that was part of the 8th Air Force in Hardwick, England. The famous Hardwick air base was used during World War II. The 93rd Bomb Group was the first Bomb Squadron to penetrate German airspace in 1943. The movie cuts between old footage, present day interviews and photographs to tell the stories of the brave people in the Group. The families of the fallen veterans, and even some of the veterans themselves, reunite to tell those stories. Learn more at https://www.movieguide.org/reviews/return-to-hardwick.html
THINK LIKE A DOG is a wholesome, entertaining movie about a brilliant middle school student who invents a headset contraption to hear other people’s thoughts. Oliver’s dog puts on Oliver’s science fair invention. Suddenly, Oliver can hear his dog’s thoughts. Oliver starts talking to the dog about his problems. His parents are thinking about separating, but Oliver’s dog tells him the most important thing in life is love and family. The two of them devise a plan to remind Oliver’s parents that material things aren’t important, but family and commitment are. Learn more at https://www.movieguide.org/reviews/think-like-a-dog.html
SISTERS OF THE GROOM follows Jason as he pretends to date his neighbor, Sarah, during his brother’s wedding week festivities. If she pretends to be dating Jason, he’ll recommend her sister’s catering company to his father’s company. Jason’s sisters don’t believe Jason and Sarah are dating. They try to set him up with his old flame, Cassie. Despite this, things seem to go well for Jason and Sarah, and the two might have real feelings for each other. However, uncertainty in their futures to pulls them apart. Will they let their feelings blossom, or will they shut them off and follow their dreams? Learn more at https://www.movieguide.org/reviews/sisters-of-the-groom.html
MORE THAN A VICTIM: THE ANGEL COLON AND LUIS J RUIZ STORY tells the story of two survivors of the 2016 Pulse Nightclub shooting in Orlando, Florida. Angel and Luis tell their respective stories about that deadly night, when a heavily armed Muslim terrorist burst into the club and started shooting, killing 49 people. After that horrific night, Angel and Luis began the process of picking up their lives and figuring out their new normal. Eventually, they abandoned their homosexual lifestyles to follow Jesus. Now, they dedicate their lives to preaching Jesus to other people who are trapped in a homosexual lifestyle. Learn more at https://www.movieguide.org/reviews/more-than-a-victim-the-angel-colon-and-luis-j-ruiz-story.html
7500 stars Joseph Gordon-Levitt as Tobias, an American co-pilot on a German flight to Paris. The movie reveals that Tobias lives with one of the flight attendants and that she’s the mother of their 2-year-old son. In the air, some Muslim terrorists try to storm the cockpit when the other attendant delivers food to Tobias and the German pilot. One terrorist, armed with a makeshift knife made from a whiskey bottle, gets through and manages to kill the pilot and wound Tobias in the arm, but Tobias knocks him unconscious with the fire extinguisher. The stakes get raised when the terrorists in the passenger compartment threaten to kill passengers unless Tobias opens the cockpit door. Learn more at https://www.movieguide.org/reviews/7500.html
FEEL THE BEAT is a new comedy on Netflix. April is a Broadway chorus girl, but she gets fired from a job and loses her apartment and must move back home. Lovingly, her father tells her he will help her get on her feet. When she returns home, April decides to train the middle school dance class in order to get in front of some lead choreographers. April believes that if she’s able to perform once more time in the student teacher dance, she’ll get another Broadway job. Learn more at https://www.movieguide.org/reviews/feel-the-beat.html
THE WARRANT is a western starring Neal McDonough as Sheriff John Breaker in an 1869 Missouri. John teams up with his son, Cal, a federal marshal, to arrest a man named Virgil, who served with them during the Civil War. Virgil has returned to Missouri to resume a rampage against former Confederate soldiers and their families because his son was killed during the Civil War. Cal has information tracking Virgil and his gang of vigilantes to Kansas. Will John offer his former friend a chance at redemption? Will Virgil face justice or a day of reckoning? Learn more at https://www.movieguide.org/reviews/the-warrant.html
MECHANICS OF LOVE follows Matti, who returns home for her sister, Clare’s, wedding. Matti reignites an old fling with Jake, who just so happens to be the groom’s best man. But, just as Matti gets comfortable spending time with Jake, Matti’s boyfriend, Devin, comes to town to surprise her, and things get complicated. As the days pass, Devin clearly isn’t enjoying his time in Matti’s hometown, and Matti knows it. Matti does all she can do accommodate Devin, but things might not work out in their favor. Learn more at https://www.movieguide.org/reviews/mechanics-of-love.html
The second episode of DC’S STARGIRL series on the CW network steps things up. After Pat uses his giant robot machine to save his stepdaughter, Courtney, aka Stargirl, from Brainwave, he tells her how he happened to meet her mother in Blue Valley. He assures Courtney he would never have moved the family from Los Angeles to Blue Valley, Nebraska after marrying Barbara if he knew Brainwave was hanging around the town. Courtney is anxious to find Brainwave and discover where Icicle, the leader of the Injustice Society, is, but Pat tells her it’s too dangerous. However, Brainwave has managed to find out Stargirl’s real identity. He makes a terrible threat. Learn more at https://www.movieguide.org/reviews/dcs-stargirl-episode-1-2-s-t-r-i-p-e.html
HOW NOT TO PROPOSE follows a couple at the crossroads. Lena and Travis are both in a place where they could go their separate ways with their careers or commit to one another. When they go on a weekend getaway where Travis plans to propose, a series of unfortunate events might stop him from popping the question Learn more at https://www.movieguide.org/reviews/how-not-to-propose.html
HEIST AND SEEK is Hallmark’s latest entry in its series of AURORA TEAGARDEN MYSTERIES movies. Aurora Teagarden works for the library, which is having a big fundraiser coming up soon. Everyone is so excited about seeing a crown from the Tudor era in Britain, which has never been moved from the history museum but is now going to be displayed at the fundraiser. When the curtains are pulled back, however, the crown is gone! Will Aurora and her friends be able to figure out the mystery? Learn more at https://www.movieguide.org/reviews/aurora-teagarden-mysteries-heist-and-seek.html
The seventh episode in Season Three of ALEXA & KATIE, titled “It’s Just. . . Weird,” Alexa adjusts to the idea of becoming “more than friends” with her friend Spencer. Spencer has cancer like Alexa used to have. Alexa seems to like Spencer, but for some reason she keeps pushing him away. She’s reluctant to invite him to her basketball game and even to meet Katie. However, Spencer sees them at the coffee shop where Katie works. At the game, he also garners a dinner invitation to Alexa’s house. When Spencer comes for dinner to meet her family, Alexa has to decide how she feels. Meanwhile, Katie seeks to uncover who her single mother is secretly dating. Katie, Alexa and another classmate stake out who they think is dating Katie’s mom. Learn more at https://www.movieguide.org/reviews/alexa-katie-episode-p3-7-its-just-weird.html
GROOMZILLA is a comedy on UPtv. It follows the story of a contractor named Tucker and his fiancé named Alyssa. After years of Tucker procrastinating on proposing to Alyssa, Tucker finally pops the question, but misses their engagement party. Tucker overhears Alyssa crying in the bathroom, wishing he would take their engagement more seriously. Alyssa’s wish comes true when Tucker becomes obsessed with wedding planning, but he soon turns into a “groomzilla.” Alyssa becomes upset because Tucker’s neglecting their relationship and not allowing her to have any input in the marriage. Will Tucker and Alyssa go through with the wedding? Learn more at https://www.movieguide.org/reviews/groomzilla.html
MIGHTY OAK is a sometimes endearing, sometimes confusing drama about Gina, a former band manager still mourning the loss of her brother 10 years after his tragic death. One day, Gina meets Oak, a talented 10-year old boy with guitar-playing skills. Gina gets the band back together with Oak front and center, but she has her own warped reasons for doing so. Eventually, however, she learns to truly care for Oak and move from her past. Learn more at https://www.movieguide.org/reviews/mighty-oak.html
THE HIGH NOTE is an average movie about an aspiring music producer, Maggie, who works as an assistant for a famous diva named Grace Davis in Los Angeles. While running errands, Maggie meets David, a small-time singer. The two decide to work together professionally with Maggie as his producer. There’s only one problem: she isn’t a producer yet. Learn more at https://www.movieguide.org/reviews/the-high-note.html
DADS is a documentary about the modern-day dad who’s involved in all areas of the home life. DADS interviews and shows the lives of multiple dads around the world. The movie starts out with many famous dads, including Will Smith, Jimmy Fallon, Ron Howard, and others, talking about how fatherhood completely changed their life. The movie also shows fathers around the world who are taking care of their children as a stay at home dads or just loving their role as a father. Learn more at https://www.movieguide.org/reviews/dads-2020.html
CONTRALAND is a powerful documentary that educates adults about the evils of sex trafficking in the United States. CONTRALAND begins with Nancy Stafford greeting the audience with horrifying statistics about sex trafficking in the U.S. Sex trafficking is a 38-billion-dollar industry that turns children into contraband. Thus, the United States has become “Contraland.” Craig Sawyer formed Veterans for Child Rescue, which aids local police in the fight to stop sexual predators from harming underage children. Throughout CONTRALAND, Sawyer and his team travel to Utah, Connecticut and Arizona to host stings that lure predators only to arrest them for engaging in the desire to exchange sex with minors for money. Learn more at https://www.movieguide.org/reviews/contraland.html
MARONA’S FANTASTIC TALE is an animated French movie that follows a dog from birth to death as she changes owners three times. Marona is the ninth puppy in her litter upon her birth but soon thereafter, sold to an acrobat. As the acrobat’s career progresses, Marona leaves him so she won’t slow down his career and comes under the care of a construction owner. However, the construction worker’s wife doesn’t like Marona. So, again, she leaves and winds up in the care of a young girl whose elders let her keep the stray. Learn more at https://www.movieguide.org/reviews/maronas-fantastic-tale.html
DC’S STARGIRL is a new superhero series on The CW. In the pilot episode, the Justice Society is defeated by the Injustice Society, and Starman dies. Ten years later, Starman’s sidekick, Pat, marries a woman with a teenage daughter named Courtney, and they move from Los Angeles to Nebraska with Pat’s young son, Mike. Pat’s plans for a quiet life are interrupted when Courtney discovers Starman’s Cosmic Staff, which seems to anoint Courtney as the heir to Starman’s superpowers. Learn more at https://www.movieguide.org/reviews/dcs-stargirl-episode-1-1-pilot.html
SWEET MAGNOLIAS is a series on Netflix and follows three friends, Maddie, Helen and Dana Sue, in the small town of Serenity, South Carolina. In “Lay It All Down,” the fourth episode, each woman learns there’s something they need to let go of to move forward. Helen deals with a bump in the road in both her business and personal life. Dana Sue confronts her bad attitude and a potentially life-threatening health scare. Maddie wrestles with feelings for a man who’s her son’s baseball coach. Learn more at https://www.movieguide.org/reviews/sweet-magnolias-episode-1-4-lay-it-all-down.html
NCIS: The Arizona is an emotionally powerful, patriotic episode of the popular CBS drama. A dying World War II veteran claims he was one of the survivors when the USS Arizona exploded and capsized during the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor. The veteran wants to be buried with his comrades at the Arizona Memorial. However, Special Agent Gibbs and his team are having a hard time confirming the 95-year-old man’s story.
“Family Secrets,” the 2020 season finale of BLUE BLOODS, tells several family stories involving the Regan family. In one story, Detective Danny Regan must stop a man from getting revenge for the murder of his brother by a gangster who’s on trial. In another, Jamie’s wife, Eddie, gets involved in finding the mother of an abandoned baby left near the police precinct where they work. Finally, the Regan family discovers that the police commissioner’s murdered son, Joe, had a son he didn’t know he had who has also become a police detective. The boy’s mother asks Police Commissioner Regan to transfer Joe’s son to a less dangerous position. Learn more at https://www.movieguide.org/reviews/blue-bloods-episode-10-19-family-secrets.html
“Off the Rails” is a fine courtroom drama of the CBS-TV series BULL Dr. Jason Bull, once defends civil and criminal cases with his legal partner and brother-in-law, Benny. They agree to defend a Christian train driver who allegedly fell asleep before an accident. Their client suffered brain trauma because of the accident and can’t remember what happened. He says he’s never fallen asleep once in 14 years. However, the railroad company, supported by federal investigators, say their signal system is new and works perfectly. Learn more at https://www.movieguide.org/reviews/bull-episode-418-off-the-rails.html
WIN THE WILDERNESS is an adventure gameshow on Netflix where six British couples compete for a remote house in Alaska on Ose Mountain. The owners of Ose Mountain are Duane and Rena Ose, who are planning to move away from Alaska. They leave behind their legacy and hand-built home, which they wish to pass down to another family. The six couples compete in a series of wilderness survival challenges for the opportunity to win the house on Ose Mountain. In the second episode, the couples compete in two challenges, and two of them get to spend time with Duane and Rena. Learn more at https://www.movieguide.org/reviews/win-the-wilderness-episode-1-2-a-walk-on-the-wild-side.html
In the ALEXA & KATIE episode “Basketball,” Alexa wants to try out for the basketball team, but her cancer doctor tells her she can’t. Alexa wants to play because it’s her favorite sport, and she wants to make the team to prove her rival Gwenny Thompson wrong. Alexa decides to train Katie for the team so she can play instead of Alexa. However, the idea of Katie playing basketball only makes Alexa miss it more. Learn more at https://www.movieguide.org/reviews/alexa-katie-episode-1-3-basketball.html
The second episode of ALEXA & KATIE is called “Wigs.” Alexa and Katie decide to buy wigs after they shave their heads together when chemotherapy causes Alexa’s hair to fall out. The two go wig shopping, but Katie has a spending limit of 100 dollars on her Mom’s credit card. All the wigs at the store besides a blue and pink costume wig are priced over 100 dollars, however, Katie fears she will be judged and embarrassed at school for looking ridiculous, so Katie buys a $300 blonde wig with the credit card her mother gave her. When Alexa finds out Katie can’t buy a better wig yet, she decides to support her friend by wearing the pink wig to school. Learn more at https://www.movieguide.org/reviews/alexa-katie-episode-1-2-wigs.html
GIGI is a joyous, poignant American musical classic set in 1900 in Paris. The story follows a teenage girl from a poor family being groomed by her great aunt to be a mistress to rich men when she comes of age. Gigi and her grandmother have been befriended by a rich but bored playboy named Gaston. Whenever Gaston visits them, his boredom disappears, and he is able to relax and enjoy himself. After returning from an extended stay in Monte Carlo, Gaston suddenly finds himself falling for Gigi, who’s blossomed into a young woman. However, Gigi doesn’t want to be one of Gaston’s discarded mistresses. It looks like Gigi won’t be seeing any more of Gaston. Or, will she? Learn more at https://www.movieguide.org/reviews/gigi-1958.html
SCOOB! is a new Scooby-Doo feature length animated movie that begins with an short origin story about how Scooby met Shaggy, Fred, Daphne, and Velma. After exposing a fake haunted house hiding stolen loot, the children decide to solve mysteries. Ten years later, Shaggy and Scooby are kicked out of Mystery, Inc. because an investor thinks they contribute nothing to the company. Fred, Daphne and Velma learn otherwise, when Shaggy and Scoob team up with the Blue Falcon to stop a villain trying to get his hands on the treasure of Alexander the Great. The gates hiding the treasure may also stop a monster from getting loose, however. Learn more at https://www.movieguide.org/reviews/scoob.html
JUST BEING HONEST is a hilarious comedy special on Amazon Prime from Christian comedian Jaron Myers. From humor about baby names, truck drivers and online trolling, Jaron woos audiences with his lighthearted act. From Jaron’s perspective, names vary between his friend groups. His Christian friends tend to select names based on books of the Bible while his hipster friends select unorthodox names. Then, there’s the parents who think it’s a good idea to have everyone named with the same letter from the alphabet. Learn more at https://www.movieguide.org/reviews/just-being-honest.html
Set in Seattle, SECRET MILLIONAIRE is a romantic comedy on UPtv about a man named Sean Payton who’s part of a rich real estate family. Sean’s wealthy father plans to build a shopping complex over a beloved park that’s been in the community for years. Sean falls for a young woman named Allison who’s protesting his father’s building plans, but Sean hides his true identity from her. Sean pleads with his father to save the park and stop his plans for building on the land. However, his father refuses Sean. Eventually, Seam must choose to stick by his father’s side or help Allison save the park. Things get complicated when Allison finds out Sean’s true identity. Learn more at https://www.movieguide.org/reviews/secret-millionaire-2.html
CHANGE OF HEART follows the story of a young woman named Diane who works for a Reality TV host. Diane’s car breaks down traveling to an assignment. She ends up staying at a quaint bed and breakfast called Forest Cove. Diane’s perspective changes when she meets the lovely owner, Helen, and Helen’s adult son, Andy, who focus on the personal touches that make Forest Cove unique. Diane books an episode for the Reality TV program to help Forest Cove’s owners, but the program’s host wants to do a hit piece instead. Learn more at https://www.movieguide.org/reviews/change-of-heart.html
A MOVING ROMANCE is a television movie airing on UPtv. It follows the story of an interior designer named Olivia who works for her father’s moving company after being fired from her job in New York. After losing her job, Olivia flies to California to help recover her widowed father’s business that’s slowed down because of another competitor. Olivia reconnects with her father and meets a love interest named Scott who works at her father’s company. Complications ensue when Olivia updates her portfolio and gets a job offer to design a restaurant in New York City. Learn more at https://www.movieguide.org/reviews/a-moving-romance.html
IT’S A DOG’S LIFE follows legendary Disney voice actor Bill Farmer as he travels the United States telling the stories of how dogs use their unique talents. In each episode, Farmer tells the story of two dogs and how they contribute to the wellbeing of mankind. These tasks could be anywhere from helping people with special needs, data research or interacting with other animals to help train them. The episodes end with a segment on “Hometown Heroes” where the viewers send videos about how their dog is a hero. Learn more at https://www.movieguide.org/reviews/its-a-dogs-life.html
FAMILY REUNION is an excellent family sitcom with positive faith and values on Netflix. It’s about a professional football player who retires and moves his family from Seattle back to their hometown of Columbus, Georgia, where his mother and his father, a pastor, live. In the episode “Remember When Daddy Came Home?,” the program’s 13th episode, a family discussion about baptism with Grandpa and Grandma convinces Ami, the youngest member of the son’s family, to get baptized. However, Ami’s father must help her get over her fear of water. Learn more athttps://www.movieguide.org/reviews/family-reunion-episode-1-13-remember-when-daddy-came-home.html
THE INCOHERENTS follows the story of four men in their mid 40s who reunite to play in their 1990s-type indie rock band. In the 1990s, the band was on the rise toward stardom, but the lead singer, Bruce, quit to have a more stable career to start a family. Bruce seeks a way out of his mundane job and reunites with his old bandmates, Jimmy, Tyler and Keith. The rock scene they were knew, however, has changed drastically. The band must decide if giving their music a second shot will be worth it despite having new lives with marriages, children and regular careers. Meanwhile, Bruce’s new effort to conquer the music world puts a strain on his marriage. Learn more at https://www.movieguide.org/reviews/the-incoherents.html
SELFIE DAD follows Ben Marcus, a reality television show editor trying to break into the world of YouTube. A former standup comic, Ben wants to get back to his roots of making people laugh. When Ben’s son, Jack, uploads a video to his channel, Ben goes viral. However, going viral comes with its obstacles. Ben is faced with some difficulties that remind him of his father’s immoral failures. The difficulties could ruin his family. Learn more at https://www.movieguide.org/reviews/selfie-dad.html
JULIA BLUE is a contemporary romance from the Ukraine about a young female photojournalist who is studying media at the university and volunteering at the military hospital. At the hospital, Julia falls in love with a soldier whose code name is English who has PTSD from fighting in the on-going Russian-Ukrainian war. Both Julia and English have fond memories of Ukraine’s revolution against communism when they were younger. However, when Julia gets into a prestigious German university, which may break up their budding romance. Learn more athttps://www.movieguide.org/reviews/julia-blue.html
STARDOG AND TURBOCAT is a funny, witty animated superhero animal movie. In 1969, a scientist named David sends his dog, Buddy, into outer space for an important mission. Some kind of strange energy knocks out Buddy, who doesn’t return to Earth until 50 years later. Buddy remembers David told him that he’s tracking the capsule and will come get him. However, Buddy got separated from the capsule. He gets help from a vigilante cat named Felix and other animals to locate the capsule. One of the animals, however, is a villain. Learn more about it here: https://www.movieguide.org/reviews/stardog-and-turbocat.html
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TRUE GRIT, the classic 1969 western starring John Wayne, is a story about a young girl named Mattie who hires a U.S. Marshall Rooster Cogburn to catch Tom Chaney, the man who murdered Mattie’s father. TRUE GRIT is very entertaining, with an Oscar winning performance by John Wayne. The movie has a legendary cast in addition to Wayne...to read the full review click the following link: https://www.movieguide.org/reviews/true-grit-1969.html
REVELATION WAY is a faith-based movie available on DVD, Amazon and elsewhere. Jenny is a married hospice worker who wants to get a promotion at work so she and her husband can afford to adopt a child. REVELATION WAY is a powerful drama with a strong, heartfelt Christian, biblical message about turning to God...to read the full review click the following link: https://www.movieguide.org/reviews/revelation-way.html
Set in Memphis, UNCORKED follows a young black man named Elijah who finds his passion in wine and pursues his dreams to become a master sommelier (professional wine steward). UNCORKED has a strong moral, pro-capitalist worldview stressing friendship, sacrifice, hard work, family, and reconciliation...to read the full review click the following link: https://www.movieguide.org/reviews/uncorked.html
In the episode “Bootstraps” of the Netflix series SELF MADE, which is about a black female entrepreneur in the early 1900s, Sarah Walker is successfully growing her company in Indianapolis and gaining respect from her community. “Bootstraps” is an entertaining, inspiring episode of SELF MADE. It shows new entrepreneurs they should continue to fight for their businesses no matter what obstacles get in their way...to read the full review click the following link: https://www.movieguide.org/reviews/self-made-inspired-by-the-life-of-madam-c-j-walker-bootstraps.html
ELEPHANT is an amazing documentary about a herd of elephants that take an 8-month roundtrip across a desert in Africa. ELEPHANT has a strong moral worldview where family comes first and some environmentalist elements stressing the beauty of nature and the animals that inhabit it...to read the full review click the following link: https://www.movieguide.org/reviews/elephant-2.html
Religion meets science in “14 Years, 2 Months, 8 Days,” a second season episode of NBC’s medical program NEW AMSTERDAM. A prayer group called Prayers for Healing meets to pray in the hospital’s lobby. When they arrive, miracles occur. This episode mingles science and religion beautifully, giving it faith-friendly tone, although the word Christian is never stated...to read the full review click the following link: https://www.movieguide.org/reviews/new-amsterdam-14-years-2-months-8-days.html
DOLPHIN REEF follows the story of a young dolphin named Echo who’s in the process of trying to decide if he should grow up or put off his responsibility for a little while longer. DOLPHIN REEF is a beautiful documentary about a young dolphin learning what it takes for him to be able to survive on his own...to read the full review click the following link: https://www.movieguide.org/reviews/dolphin-reef.html
Poppy finds out there are different lands of different types of trolls and wants to go meet them, but Branch thinks they need to be cautious in TROLLS WORLD TOUR. TROLLS WORLD TOUR is a psychedelic, frenetic, movie that tries to put in every politically correct stereotypical cultural message possible...To read the full review click the following link: https://www.movieguide.org/reviews/trolls-world-tour.html
THE MAIN EVENT follows an 11-year-old professional wrestling fan named Leo. One day, Leo hides from school bullies and finds a magical wrestling mask that gives him super strength to take on anyone in the ring. The movie is surprisingly funny and heartwarming, with plenty to keep viewers entertained...To read the full review click the following link: https://www.movieguide.org/reviews/the-main-event-2020.html
The Coronavirus is wreaking havoc across the world, and Hollywood is feeling the blow as the box office hits a 20-year low...To read the full article click the following link below! https://www.movieguide.org/news-articles/how-the-coronavirus-is-affecting-hollywood.html
TIMMY FAILURE: MISTAKES WERE MADE follows 11-year-old Timmy Failure as he seeks to fight evil with his detective agency alongside with his imaginary polar bear named Total. Based on a series of popular children’s books, TIMMY FAILURE: MISTAKES WERE MADE is a fun watch. The dialogue is witty and engaging and will have viewers of all ages laughing frequently...Click the following link to read the full review: https://www.movieguide.org/reviews/timmy-failure-mistakes-were-made.html
ONWARD is an animated comedy about two elf brothers, Ian and Barley. It takes place in a modern fantasy world where fairy tale creatures have abandoned magic for technology. In typical Pixar fashion, ONWARD is extremely witty and well made. The character arcs are superb. Each character learns something valuable...Click the following link to read the full review: https://www.movieguide.org/reviews/onward.html
I STILL BELIEVE is the poignant true story of the famous Christian singer Jeremy Camp’s marriage to Melissa. I STILL BELIEVE is a beautiful movie. It’s very well edited and captivating, although it even violates some rules of filmmaking...Click the following Link to read the full review: https://www.movieguide.org/reviews/i-still-believe.html
Set in the 1970s, TROOP ZERO is a story about a girl named Christmas Flynn who’s fascinated by space. TROOP ZERO is entertaining, with a fresh, original storyline and a great cast. The movie has a strong moral worldview with some outright Christian elements...Click the following link to read the full review: https://www.movieguide.org/reviews/troop-zero.html
TO ALL THE BOYS: P.S. I STILL LOVE YOU, a sequel, starts off where the first movie ended. TO ALL THE BOYS: P.S. I STILL LOVE YOU is a satisfying sequel. It captures the real emotions of a teenage girl who doesn’t know exactly what she’s doing...Click the following link to read the full review: https://www.movieguide.org/reviews/to-all-the-boys-p-s-i-still-love-you.html
TO ALL THE BOYS I’VE LOVED BEFORE is a romantic comedy about a teenage girl named Lara Jean, who finds out her younger sister has accidentally mailed her secret childhood love notes to five boys that were addressed but never sent. TO ALL THE BOYS I’VE LOVED BEFORE is fun and heartwarming, with appealing characters...Click the following link to read the full review: https://www.movieguide.org/reviews/to-all-the-boys-ive-loved-before.html
WAITING FOR ANYA is set in the south of France during World War II. Jo is a teenage shepherd boy who discovers a secret in the woods surrounding where he tends his family’s sheep. WAITING FOR ANYA is a wonderful period piece set in majestic mountain beauty. Christian themes and symbols are plentiful, as well as loyalty, sacrifice and friendship...Click the following link to read the full review: https://www.movieguide.org/reviews/waiting-for-anya.html
EMMA. (2020), the newest adaptation of Jane Austen’s last novel, follows the misguided matchmaking efforts of a beautiful young socialite who lives in the English countryside with her wealthy father. EMMA. (2020) is a straightforward depiction of Austen’s novel. The characters are likable. The story is perfectly punctuated by droll humor...Click the following link to read the full review: https://www.movieguide.org/reviews/emma-2020.html
THE WAY BACK is an exceptional sports drama starring Ben Affeck as Jack Cunningham, a middle-aged man who drinks all day. THE WAY BACK is incredibly well done, with amazing performances, an impressive script and an exceptional soundtrack. The movie is not just a sports movie; it’s much deeper than that...Click the following link to read the full review: https://www.movieguide.org/reviews/the-way-back-2020.html
I STILL BELIEVE is the poignant true story of the famous Christian singer Jeremy Camp’s marriage to Melissa. I STILL BELIEVE is a beautiful movie. It’s very well edited and captivating, although it even violates some rules of filmmaking...Click the following link to read the full review: https://www.movieguide.org/reviews/i-still-believe.html
THE CHOSEN: Invitations is an adaptation of Scripture. This episode treats the stories of Matthew and Nicodemus simultaneously. THE CHOSEN: Invitations makes viewers think about Jesus. This is always a good thing. The acting is good, and the character development is interesting...Click the following link to read the full review: https://www.movieguide.org/tv/the-chosen/invitations
TIMMY FAILURE: MISTAKES WERE MADE follows 11-year-old Timmy Failure as he seeks to fight evil with his detective agency alongside with his imaginary polar bear named Total. Based on a series of popular children’s books, TIMMY FAILURE: MISTAKES WERE MADE is a fun watch...Click the following link to read the full review: https://www.movieguide.org/reviews/timmy-failure-mistakes-were-made.html
THE RHYTHM SECTION begins three years after the death of Stephanie Patrick’s parents and siblings when a bomb explodes on their airplane while over the ocean. Sadly, THE RHYTHM SECTION is a poorly told version of the book on which it’s based, with a jumpy script and weak storyline...Click the following link to read the full review: https://www.movieguide.org/reviews/the-rhythm-section.html
The “Bubbikins” episode of Netflix’s THE CROWN series opens in Athens, Greece in 1967. The Christian Sisterhood of Martha and Mary, the nursing order of Greek Orthodox nuns founded in 1949 by Prince Philip’s mother, Princess Alice of Greece, is out of money. THE CROWN: Bubbikins is an eye-opening, uplifting episode...Click the following link to read the full review: https://www.movieguide.org/reviews/the-crown-bubbikins.html
“Aberfan” is Episode Three of the third season of THE CROWN. It follows the village of Aberfan, Wales after a junior school was devastated by an avalanche from a coal waste tip. “Aberfan” is a highly emotional, intense episode. It shows how each character deals with the disaster differently based on their emotions...Click the following link to read the full review: https://www.movieguide.org/reviews/the-crown-aberfan.html
OLYMPIC DREAMS opens with Penelope, a cross country skier for team USA, experiencing this event all alone, so she is sad, lonely and seems lost. The low-budget movie had decent acting, but a weak plot. There isn’t much action, and the script is weak, so the viewers are not captivated by the movie...Click the following link to read the full review: https://www.movieguide.org/reviews/olympic-dreams.html
ERNESTO’S MANIFESTO is a sweet, sometimes funny story. Ernesto is a simple man who doesn’t need anything to be happy. Though it could use more conflict, ERNESTO’S MANIFESTO is a sweet story. The title character is kind, compassionate, loyal, trustworthy, generous, and lives a simple life...Click the following link to read the full review: https://www.movieguide.org/reviews/ernestos-manifesto.html
CREATED EQUAL: CLARENCE THOMAS IN HIS OWN WORDS is a fascinating documentary where inSupreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas discusses his life, his triumphs and his challenges. CREATED EQUAL is a must-see movie. The structure is filled with jeopardy, even though it’s a documentary...Click the following link to read the full review: https://www.movieguide.org/reviews/in-theaters/created-equal-clarence-thomas-in-his-own-words.html
THE REPORT is a true story about the CIA’s “enhanced interrogation” techniques on Muslim prisoners in the War on Terror after the 9/11 attacks. THE REPORT has a strong moral worldview. The protagonist works relentlessly to expose some painful truths the CIA seems to be hiding...Click the following link to read the full review: https://www.movieguide.org/reviews/the-report.html
THE LAST FULL MEASURE tells the true story of Airman William Pitsenbarger, who died during the Vietnam War. THE LAST FULL MEASURE is more like a drama about Vietnam vets suffering from PTSD than a war movie. It has a few touching, emotional moments, but the story moves too slowly...Click the following link to read the full review: https://www.movieguide.org/reviews/the-last-full-measure.html
DOLITTLE is a charming, funny, heartwarming family movie based on the Doctor Dolittle book series. Dr. Dolittle emerges from seclusion to find an antidote for the Queen of England, who’s been poisoned. DOLITTLE is imaginative and charming. The pacing is upbeat, with many engaging interactions...Click the following link to read the full review: https://www.movieguide.org/reviews/dolittle.html
CHERNOBYL is a powerful, edge of your seat, dramatic exposé of the worst man-made disaster when the Chernobyl nuclear power plant in the Soviet Union exploded in 1986, spewing radioactive material across Ukraine, Russia, Belarus, and Western Europe. CHERNOBYL is a very accurate portrait of a bureaucratic state that tries to control everything with strong secret police...Click the following link to read the full review: https://www.movieguide.org/reviews/chernobyl.html
BLIND EYES OPENED: THE TRUTH ABOUT SEX TRAFFICKING IN AMERICA is a documentary exposing the evils of the 13 billion dollar sex trafficking business, which holds 27 million people worldwide, mostly children, in bondage. BLIND EYES OPENED: THE TRUTH ABOUT SEX TRAFFICKING IN AMERICA is a well-produced documentary about the evils of the buying and selling of people, mostly children, in America...Click the following link to read the full review: https://www.movieguide.org/reviews/blind-eyes-opened-the-truth-about-sex-trafficking-in-america.html
CHRISTMAS IN PARIS is a romance about a French millionaire who ventures to Montana to close a business deal with an American perfume company. CHRISTMAS IN PARIS is an enjoyable Christmas movie that’s not as cheesy as others...Click the following link to read the full review: https://www.movieguide.org/reviews/christmas-in-paris.html
CHRISTMAS AT DOLLYWOOD is a classic Christmas romance for television, where the two romantic leads find themselves working together. CHRISTMAS AT DOLLYWOOD is heartwarming and fun. It’s nice see a man love his girlfriend’s child as he would his own...Click the following link to read the full review: https://www.movieguide.org/reviews/christmas-at-dollywood.html
In the animated classic, A CHARLIE BROWN CHRISTMAS, Charlie Brown wonders why he feels sad despite the Christmas season. A CHARLIE BROWN CHRISTMAS contains much of the wonderful spirit of the PEANUTS comic strip created by Charles Schultz...Click the following link to read the full review: https://www.movieguide.org/reviews/charlie-brown-christmas.html
A CHRISTMAS LOVE STORY is a refreshing Hallmark television movie starring Kristin Chenoweth. A CHRISTMAS LOVE STORY is highly enjoyable. It focuses on family, singing and caring for others, but still includes the romance people love...Click the following link to read the full review: https://www.movieguide.org/reviews/a-christmas-love-story.html
CHRISTMAS TOWN is the name of a Hallmark TV movie. “Christmas Town” is also the nickname of Grandon Falls, a small town where a father purchases an angel tree topper for his daughter, 6-year-old Lauren. CHRISTMAS TOWN is a joyful, inspiring movie that draws viewers into the season...Click the following link to read the full review: https://www.movieguide.org/reviews/christmas-town.html
“Moondust” is Episode Seven of the third season of THE CROWN. The episode follows Prince Philip, Queen Elizabeth’s husband, as he marvels at the American astronauts who land and walk on the moon in July 1969. “Moondust” is an engrossing episode of THE CROWN...Click the following link to read the full review: https://www.movieguide.org/reviews/the-crown-moondust.html
THE MANDALORIAN is a science fiction series on Disney+ that takes place after the fall of the Empire in the STAR WARS universe. The cinematography and editing in THE MANDALORIAN are excellent and blend seamlessly with the appearance and style of the STAR WARS movies...Click the following link to read the full review: https://www.movieguide.org/reviews/the-mandalorian-season-one.html
TOGO is a heartwarming adventure about Leonhard Seppala and his lead sled dog, Togo, two of the unsung heroes of the 1925 legendary dog sled serum relay from Nenana to Nome, Alaska. The overall cinematic quality of TOGO is excellent, with sweeping vistas of the Alaskan landscape and close-up shots of the husky dogs...Click the following link to read the full review: movieguide.org/reviews/togo.html
THE KID is a Western based on the real-life figures Pat Garrett and Billy the Kid. Many, many movies about Billy the Kid have been made over the past 100 years, and this 2019 movie doesn’t stand out as particularly unique. However, the fictional storyline of Rio and Sara is compelling enough, even though it drags a bit in the beginning...Click the following link to read the full review: https://www.movieguide.org/reviews/the-kid-2019.html
The documentary ONE CHILD NATION takes place all over China. The movie tells the many stories of people forced to adhere to the One Child Policy that the Communist Party running China has enforced for decades. ONE CHILD NATION is a combination of amateur and professional filmmaking...Click the following link to read the full review: https://www.movieguide.org/reviews/one-child-nation.html
A documentary about Bruce Springsteen, WESTERN STARS interweaves stories, pictures, music, and information about Springsteen’s life. WESTERN STARS has a Romantic worldview about chasing dreams and the best of life regardless of how much a person risks. God is mentioned twice, once within the context of love being evidence of God’s divinity...Click the following link to read the full review: https://www.movieguide.org/reviews/western-stars.html
TONI MORRISON: THE PIECES I AM is a documentary about acclaimed Nobel Prize-winning black novelist Toni Morrison. TONI MORRISON: THE PIECES I AM is very informative, but way too long. The documentary includes beautiful African American art and real photos...Click the following link to read the full review: https://www.movieguide.org/reviews/toni-morrison-the-pieces-i-am.html
BENNETT’S WAR stars Michael Roark as Marshall Bennett, an American solider who gets injured in Afghanistan and is medically discharged. BENNETT’S WAR is an entertaining, well-acted, action-packed drama. The cinematography is really good, with most being live action shots with no computer-generated graphics...Click the following link to read the full review: https://www.movieguide.org/reviews/bennetts-war.html
CLEMENCY is a character study that follows an African American prison warden, who’s in the midst of executing two prisoners. CLEMENCY is an emotional movie. The acting is superb and helps viewers to sympathize with both the warden and the second prisoner...Click the following link to read the full review: https://www.movieguide.org/reviews/clemency.html
UNDERWATER is a horror thriller starring Kristen Stewart. She plays Norah, a brave mechanical engineer who joins a small band of survivors when part of an extensive deep sea drilling operation is partially destroyed by some underwater sea monsters. UNDERWATER is an intense, scary undersea thriller and monster movie...Click the following link to read the full review: https://www.movieguide.org/reviews/underwater.html
STAR WARS: THE RISE OF SKYWALKER is the concluding chapter in the STAR WARS trilogy by George Lucas. THE RISE OF SKYWALKER rises above some paint-by-numbers plot mechanics and some serviceable acting to forge an emotional, exciting ending filled with acts of mercy, sacrifice, reconciliation, and hope...Click the following link to read the full review: https://www.movieguide.org/reviews/star-wars-the-rise-of-skywalker.html
THE SONG OF NAMES is a period drama that stretches over the course of 35 years beginning in 1951. THE SONG OF NAMES is a captivating tale of never giving up on the people important to you...Click the following link to read the full review: https://www.movieguide.org/reviews/the-song-of-names.html
WHEN CALLS THE HEART is a charming Hallmark TV show set in 1910 Canada about a woman named Elizabeth Thatcher coming to a small coal-mining town to teach. WHEN CALLS THE HEART is an entertaining television show with a strong Christian, moral worldview...Click the following link to read the full review: https://www.movieguide.org/tv/when-calls-the-heart-season-2
IP MAN 4: THE FINALE is a Chinese martial arts drama about Ip Man, a martial arts teacher who’s trained generations of students from the 1920s to the 1960s, including Bruce Lee. IP MAN 4: THE FINALE is nicely photographed, with a compelling story...Click the following link to read the full review: https://www.movieguide.org/reviews/ip-man-4-the-finale.html
THE TWO POPES is a drama about the transition in the Roman Catholic Church from the conservative Pope Benedict XVI to the more liberal Pope Francis. THE TWO POPES has some touching moments, but its positive Christian elements are overcome by false, heretical theology...Click the following link to read the full review: https://www.movieguide.org/reviews/the-two-popes.html
CATS is the musical tale of multiple cats in a city trying to be the one cat chosen to go to Heaven to be reborn. Overall, the movie is entertaining and has great musical performances...Click the following link to read the full review: https://www.movieguide.org/reviews/cats.html
BOMBSHELL is a drama about the reasons behind the Fox News Channel’s firing of long-time CEO Roger Ailes due to accusations of sexual harassment. BOMBSHELL has some first-rate performances, especially by Charlize Theron as former Fox superstar Megyn Kelly...Click the following link to read the full review: https://www.movieguide.org/reviews/bombshell.html
JUST MERCY takes place in Monroeville, Alabama, where an African-American lawyer out of Harvard Law makes it his mission to help those who can’t help themselves. JUST MERCY is absorbing and emotionally powerful, successfully tugging at the viewer’s heartstrings...Click the following link to read the full review: https://www.movieguide.org/reviews/just-mercy.html
1917 is a powerful, patriotic, moral war movie set at the western front in France and Belgium during World War I. The point of view always stays on the main characters, with long shots that work beautifully...Click the following link to read the full review: https://www.movieguide.org/reviews/1917.html
SPIES IN DISGUISE is an animated movie that follows Lance Sterling, an egotistical secret agent who fights bad guys for the United States government. SPIES IN DISGUISE is clever and witty, with exciting action and well-written dialogue...Click the following link to read the full review: https://www.movieguide.org/reviews/spies-in-disguise.html
ANGEL is a faith-based movie set in Los Angeles. ANGEL can be an evangelistic tool given the right audience. That said, ANGEL is a bit edgier than most faith-based movies...Click the following link to read the full review: https://www.movieguide.org/reviews/angel.html
PLAYMOBIL: THE MOVIE opens with live-action 18-year-old Marla and 6-year-old Charlie Brenner, sister and brother dreaming of adventure and exploring the world. The production quality of PLAYMOBIL is excellent and the animation of the Playmobil figures is fun and comical...Click the following link to read the full review: https://www.movieguide.org/reviews/playmobil-the-movie-2.html
JUMANJI: THE NEXT LEVEL is a continuation of the JUMANJI reboot series of comedy adventures. JUMANJI: THE NEXT LEVEL is an entertaining, funny, exciting comical adventure. The movie is about loving your friends and family...Click the following link to read the full review: https://www.movieguide.org/reviews/jumanji-the-next-level.html
LADY AND THE TRAMP (2019) is a wonderful live action remake of the original 1955 cartoon classic by the Walt Disney Company. This live action LADY AND THE TRAMP beautifully brings the beloved animated characters to life...Click the following link to read the full review: https://www.movieguide.org/reviews/lady-and-the-tramp-2019.html
THE GOOD LIAR opens with two widowed elderly people, Roy and Betty, engaging in a conversation on the Internet, then going to dinner with each other. THE GOOD LIAR is extremely well-written. It also delivers two great performances by Helen Mirren and Ian McKellen...Click the following link to read the full review: https://www.movieguide.org/reviews/the-good-liar.html
CHARLIE’S ANGELS (2019) are back, this time assigned to protect a young female engineer who’s blown the whistle on corruption at the tech company where she works. This CHARLIE’S ANGELS (2019) is a reboot of the franchise. This time around, it’s directed and written by Actress Elizabeth Banks...Click the following link to read the full review: https://www.movieguide.org/reviews/ccharlies-angels-2019.html
DARK WATERS is a legal drama about chemical pollution. Based on a true story, DARK WATERS is an intense, captivating legal drama with passionate, heartfelt, poignant moments...Click the following link to read the full review: https://www.movieguide.org/reviews/dark-waters.html
21 BRIDGES is a riveting cop thriller. 21 BRIDGES is a gripping police thriller filled with jeopardy. The cinematography is top notch, and the action is well paced...Click the following link to read the full review: https://www.movieguide.org/reviews/21-bridges.html
LITTLE WOMEN (2019) is the most gorgeous, historically accurate big screen version of the famous book by Louisa May Alcott that’s been made several times into movies and for television. Although it’s long, LITTLE WOMEN is a delightful movie filled with minor crises and family tensions that are resolved with prayer, compassion and love...Click the following link to read the full review: https://www.movieguide.org/reviews/little-women-2019.html
Clint Eastwood’s movie RICHARD JEWELL is about the security guard falsely accused of planting a bomb at the 1996 Summer Olympics in Atlanta, GA and the lawyer who defended him. RICHARD JEWELL is brilliantly made. It has humor, suspense, drama, and deeply moving, heartfelt scenes...Click the following link to read the full review: https://www.movieguide.org/reviews/richard-jewell.html
A HIDDEN LIFE, directed by Terence Malick, is the true story of a devout Catholic farmer in World War II. A HIDDEN LIFE is one of the great love stories and a great story of Christian courage...Click the following link to read the full review: https://www.movieguide.org/reviews/a-hidden-life.html
THE AERONAUTS is a wonderful adventure movie about two English hot air balloonists in 1862, a man and a woman, who embark on a dangerous journey in a balloon. THE AERONAUTS is a great adventure movie that might remind viewers of the adventure movies from the Golden Age of Hollywood...Click the following link to read the full review: https://www.movieguide.org/reviews/the-aeronauts.html
“These Old Bones” is the first episode of DOLLY PARTON’S HEARTSTRINGS, a Netflix anthology series. “These Old Bones” elicits humor, laughter, tears, jeopardy, concerns, and a whole plethora of emotions...Click the following link to read the full review: https://www.movieguide.org/tv/dolly-partons-heartstrings
MARRIAGE STORY is a misleading title, because the movie is actually about two married theater people going through a divorce. The movie is also often emotionally powerful and poignant...Click the following link to read the full review: https://www.movieguide.org/reviews/marriage-story.html
ARCTIC DOGS is a cute animated movie about a little white fox named Swifty, who dreams of growing up to be a “Top Sled Dog” at the local Arctic Blast Delivery Service. ARCTIC DOGS has a strong moral, redemptive worldview with positive messages about being your true self, sacrifice, helping others, teamwork, supportive friendships, and working hard toward your dreams, even if the odds are against you...Click the following link to read the full review: https://www.movieguide.org/reviews/arctic-dogs.html
KNIVES OUT is a mystery comedy about a wealthy man, his greedy family, his nurse, and his mysterious death. KNIVES OUT is a surprisingly accomplished dark comedy, with an all-star cast that delivers the goods...Click the following link to read the full review: https://www.movieguide.org/reviews/knives-out.html
FROZEN II opens with a story about an enchanted forest told by Queen Elsa and Princess Anna’s parents when they were young. FROZEN II provides exceptional, funny, exciting entertainment, with powerful plot points, great animation and a beautiful soundtrack...Click the following link to read the full review: https://www.movieguide.org/reviews/frozen-ii.html
PLAYING WITH FIRE follows Superintendent “Sup” Jake Carson and his team of four loyal firemen and smoke jumpers. PLAYING WITH FIRE is well-paced with moments of jeopardy and comedy interspersed throughout the story...Click the following link to read the full review: https://www.movieguide.org/reviews/playing-with-fire.html
FORD V FERRARI is a powerful character study set in the world of car racing, with a big budget, fine acting and good direction. FORD V FERRARI is extremely entertaining and impressive, with superb performances by Matt Damon and Christian Bale...Click the following link to read the full review: https://www.movieguide.org/reviews/ford-v-ferrari.html
MIDWAY (2019) is a patriotic war movie about America’s response to Imperial Japan’s attack on the Pearl Harbor Naval Base in Hawaii on December 7, 1941. MIDWAY (2019) is a fast paced, exciting war movie. Audiences interested in this type of movie won’t be disappointed...Click the following link to read the full review: https://www.movieguide.org/reviews/midway-2019.html
A BEAUTIFUL DAY IN THE NEIGHBORHOOD is a wonderful movie starring Tom Hanks as the famous children’s television host, Fred Rogers. A BEAUTIFUL DAY IN THE NEIGHBORHOOD is one of the year’s best, most moving, most inspiring movies...Click the following link to read the full review: https://www.movieguide.org/reviews/in-theaters/a-beautiful-day-in-the-neighbiorhood.html
ZOMBIELAND: DOUBLE TAP picks up 10 years after the first horror-comedy. ZOMBIELAND: DOUBLE TAP provides another round of traveling comic mayhem, combined with entertaining character interactions...Click the following Link to read the full review: https://www.movieguide.org/reviews/zombieland-double-tap.html
NO SAFE SPACES is a scary documentary about the attack on freedom of speech by the Radical Left on many college campuses. It’s a well-crafted, fair documentary showing the dangers of the Radical Left’s attempts to curtail freedom of speech...Click the following link to read the full review: https://www.movieguide.org/reviews/no-safe-spaces.html
JOJO RABBIT is a quirky satire about a young boy’s growth from being an Anti-Semitic member of the Hitler Youth during World War II to being a better person. Despite its funny satire, JOJO RABBIT becomes a very moving experience as the boy interacts with the Jewish girl and rediscovers his humanity...Click the following link to read the full review: https://www.movieguide.org/reviews/jojo-rabbit.html
THE IRISHMAN is an epic gangster movie by Martin Scorsese about an Irish union leader and mob hit man. As an epic gangster movie, THE IRISHMAN is meticulously crafted and absorbing, despite its three-hour plus running time...Click the following link to read the full review: https://www.movieguide.org/reviews/the-irishman.html
THE CURRENT WAR is a man versus himself period drama about the public fight between Thomas Edison and George Westinghouse in the late 1800s about who had the safest, most efficient electrical system for America’s future. THE CURRENT WAR is very well acted and often absorbing, but it’s a little too subtle and dispassionate...Click the following link to read the full review: https://www.movieguide.org/reviews/the-current-war.html
Set in 1925, THE GREAT ALASKAN RACE is an adventure about people who are determined to save the children of their small Alaskan town from a rapidly spreading disease. THE GREAT ALASKAN RACE is filled with positive themes of community, family love, sacrifice, and the value of all life...Click the following link to read the full review: https://www.movieguide.org/reviews/the-great-alaskan-race.html
HARRIET is the powerful and entertaining true story about a slave in the south before the Civil War named “Minty” became Harriet Tubman, the woman who saved hundreds of slaves and brought them to freedom. HARRIET is an exceptionally powerful, well-made movie with a strong Christian worldview, but it does have intense scenes and some foul language...Click the following link to read the full review: https://www.movieguide.org/reviews/harriet.html
YESTERDAY is a delightful musical fantasy featuring a struggling musician named Jack. YESTERDAY has several strong profanities, but no violence or explicit nudity...Click the following link to read the full review: https://www.movieguide.org/reviews/yesterday.html
TOY STORY 4 is another breakthrough in great computer animation, and even greater storytelling. TOY STORY 4 has some incredible pro-family, pro-redemption, pro-self-sacrifice messages, in a very exciting, entertaining story...Click the following link to read the full review: https://www.movieguide.org/reviews/toy-story-4-2.html
THE LION KING is a technologically innovative live-action remake of Disney’s classic 1994 animated movie. THE LION KING is very well produced, with amazing graphics and stunning images of African scenery...Click the following link for the full review: https://www.movieguide.org/reviews/the-lion-king-2019.html
In SPIDER-MAN: FAR FROM HOME, Peter Parker returns to high school after helping the Avengers defeat Thanos. SPIDER-MAN: FAR FROM HOME is funnier and more exciting than other recent live action Spider-Man movies...Click the following link to read the full review: https://www.movieguide.org/reviews/spider-man-far-from-home.html
ANNABELLE COMES HOME follows the story of the demonic doll that haunts families. Some scenes and scary characters are more humorous than scary. However, the movie extols Jesus, prayer and the power of the Holy Spirit in the everyday...Click the link to read the full review: https://www.movieguide.org/reviews/annabelle-comes-home.html
NATIONAL ANTHEM GIRL is an enjoyable documentary about Janine Stange and her journey to sing the American National Anthem in all 50 states. NATIONAL ANTHEM GIRL keeps viewers intrigued the whole way by focusing on heartfelt personal experiences...Click the following link to read the full review: https://www.movieguide.org/reviews/national-anthem-girl.html
A CHRISTMAS MOVIE CHRISTMAS is a television movie about two sisters who have their Christmas wishes come true on Christmas Eve. A CHRISTMAS MOVIE CHRISTMAS is a feel-good movie with comical characters and funny situations...Click the following link to read the full review: https://www.movieguide.org/reviews/a-christmas-movie-christmas.html
THE RELIANT is an exciting adventure movie about the five children of survivalist Christian parents in Ohio separated from their mother and father when the social order collapses. THE RELIANT promotes both Christian faith and American liberty...Click the following link to read the full review: https://www.movieguide.org/reviews/the-reliant.html
THE ADDAMS FAMILY animated horror comedy is presented as a family movie, but requires discernment for dealing with the ins and outs of raising quirky children and dealing with other goofy family members. At its core, THE ADDAMS FAMILY is about family, but viewers may have a hard time pushing through the darkness to discern redeeming values...Click the following link to read the full review: https://www.movieguide.org/reviews/new-on-dvd/the-addams-family-2019.html
GEMINI MAN stars Will Smith as government assassin, Henry Brogan. GEMINI MAN is an exciting spy thriller with a light moral worldview and strong patriotic elements...Click the following link to read the full review: https://www.movieguide.org/reviews/new-on-dvd/gemini-man.html
MALEFICENT: MISTRESS OF EVIL opens with Aurora, who is now all grown up, Queen of a magical kingdom next to a human kingdom, Aurora gets engaged to Philip, the prince of the human kingdom. MALEFICENT: MISTRESS OF EVIL is very entertaining and even compelling. The movie has incredible visuals and costumes, with some strong Christian, moral, pro-life elements...Click the following link to read the full review: https://www.movieguide.org/reviews/new-on-dvd/maleficent-mistress-of-evil.html
STRIKE UP THE BAND is a classic 1940 musical about Jimmy, a teenager played by Mickey Rooney who wants to follow his dreams of playing in a band but runs into many obstacles along the way. STRIKE UP THE BAND is a great family-friendly movie, with many exciting character transformations and witty dialogue...Click the following link to read the full review: https://www.movieguide.org/reviews/strike-up-the-band.html
In FALSE HOPES, the story follows Thomas through his high school years and adulthood as he searches for the “perfect girl.” FALSE HOPES is entertaining and very relatable, but the cinematography is mediocre...Click the following link to read the full review: https://www.movieguide.org/reviews/false-hopes.html
THE KING is an overt re-imagining of Shakespeare’s great play, HENRY V, about the young English king who defeated the King of France in an important battle in 1415. THE KING has some Christian scenes with moments that hint at the values of friendship and reverence for the monarchy...Click the following link to read the full review: https://www.movieguide.org/reviews/the-king-2019.html
LINDA RONSTADT: THE SOUND OF MY VOICE takes the audience back through time, when a young girl named Linda wanted nothing but to sing and to sing it all. THE SOUND OF MY VOICE includes first-hand accounts from many famous artists, music producers and directors who were part of Ronstadt’s story from the very beginning...Click the following link to read the full review: https://www.movieguide.org/reviews/linda-ronstadt-the-sound-of-my-voice.html
HIGH STRUNG FOR FREE DANCE is a modern musical drama about a failed telemarketer, Barlow, and a gifted pianist, Charlie, who become friend. HIGH STRUNG FREE DANCE is a very entertaining, uplifting, and sweet tale...Click the following link for the full review: https://www.movieguide.org/reviews/high-strung-free-dance.html
JUDY follows the life and career of Judy Garland during the 60s at a time where her career is at a low point. The movie follows Judy as she struggles to gain custody of her children and recover her career. JUDY is well-produced, with an amazing performance by Renee Zellweger, who perfectly captures Judy's mannerisms...Click the following link to read the full review: https://www.movieguide.org/reviews/judy.html
In the period movie, DOWNTON ABBEY, characters from the television series return. DOWNTON ABBEY is a superior adaptation of the TV series. It captures the beauty of the English countryside and the home itself. The movie’s pacing is fast but ultimately satisfying...Click the following link to read the full review: https://www.movieguide.org/reviews/new-on-dvd/downton-abbey.html
OVER THE MOON IN LOVE is a wholesome romance about high school friends who reconnect 12 years after graduation. OVER THE MOON IN LOVE has a formulaic plot, but the original songs give everything an extra flair...Click the following link to read the full review: https://www.movieguide.org/reviews/over-the-moon-in-love.html
PETERLOO is an impressive period drama about the political conflict in Manchester, England in 1819, when autocratic judges used the military to squelch a rally of about 60,000 people asking Parliament for the right to vote... Click the following link to read the full review: https://www.movieguide.org/reviews/peterloo.html
THE AFTERMATH depicts a romantic triangle between a British officer, his wife and a widowed German architect in Hamburg in the wake of the Allied victory over Germany in 1945. Brilliantly scripted and directed, THE AFTERMATH has one of the great, most powerful and most satisfying romantic endings... read the full review here: https://www.movieguide.org/reviews/the-aftermath.html
A live action version of the 1941 animated classic, DUMBO tells the beloved story of a young elephant with big ears who can fly and then is separated from his mother. Directed by Tim Burton, DUMBO is beautifully made, with a strong moral worldview about the need for family and helping others, along with lots of suspense that may scare very young children... Read the full review here: https://www.movieguide.org/reviews/dumbo-2019.html
HAPPY DEATH DAY 2U is a comical thriller sequel about a college co-ed who finds herself re-living her birthday and being stalked by a killer again when some science nerds at her college invent a machine that creates a time loop...Read full review at https://www.movieguide.org/reviews/happy-death-day-2u.html
In the animated fantasy adventure HOW TO TRAIN YOUR DRAGON: THE HIDDEN WORLD, new Viking chief Hiccup must find a legendary dragon world and defend both his people and their dragons from a villainous dragon-hunter. Read full review here: https://www.movieguide.org/reviews/how-to-train-your-dragon-the-hidden-world.html
MEDAL OF HONOR, a new documentary series on Netflix, tells the stories of some of America’s bravest men, its Medal of Honor recipients. Documentary interviews combine successfully with well-made dramatic reenactments. Some language and violence concerns make the show unsuitable for younger children... Read full review here:https://www.movieguide.org/tv/medal-of-honor
In the Season 3 finale of DAREDEVIL on Netflix IV, Matt Murdock aka Daredevil has reached the point where he feels he has to kill his arch nemesis, Wilson Fisk. The final episode of DAREDEVIL Season 3 is exciting and full of faith, with a strong Christian worldview promoting forgiveness. Read full review here: https://www.movieguide.org/tv/daredevil-episode-3-13-a-new-napkin
JOHNNY ENGLISH STRIKES AGAIN is an hilarious comedy where the bumbling British spy squares off against a conceited tech wizard from Silicon Valley who’s trying to take over the world’s most powerful nations by bamboozling the British Prime Minister. JOHNNY ENGLISH STRIKES AGAIN is loaded with laughs that often hit their target, with a warning about letting high-tech companies get too powerful, but it has some foul language and other potentially objectionable content that warrant caution for older children...Read full review here: https://www.movieguide.org/reviews/johnny-english-strikes-again.html
STOLEN DAUGHTERS: KIDNAPPED BY BOKO HARAM is an HBO documentary about the 276 Nigerian schoolgirls kidnapped April 15, 2014 by the Islamic terror group named Boko Haram, or “Western Education Is Forbidden.” STOLEN DAUGHTERS is a clear expose of the evils of Islam and the need for Christian missions and ministry. Read full review here: https://www.movieguide.org/tv/stolen-daughters-kidnapped-by-boko-haram
In WHAT THEY HAD, a woman in Los Angeles must return home to Chicago after she receives an urgent call from her brother, asking for help with their mother ridden with Alzheimer's. WHAT THEY HAD is filled with heart and lots of laughter in its portrayal of a dysfunctional but loving Catholic family, but it has a high number of gratuitous obscenities and strong profanities, plus some other objectionable content, which warrant extreme caution.... Read full review here: https://www.movieguide.org/reviews/what-they-had.html
GOOSEBUMPS 2: HAUNTED HALLOWEEN takes on another of the classic children’s books written by R.L. Stine, showcasing a small town in New York, where a mysterious ventriloquist dummy with malevolent intent wakes up some monsters on Halloween. GOOSEBUMPS 2 is lighthearted and humorous, about a battle of good versus occult evil... Read full review here: https://www.movieguide.org/reviews/goosebumps-2-haunted-halloween.html
BAD TIMES AT THE EL ROYALE is an intense thriller about five people who converge at a mysterious motel and literally fight for redemption as their secrets are exposed... Read full review here: https://www.movieguide.org/reviews/bad-times-at-the-el-royale.html
FREE SOLO is an intense documentary that follows the journey of Alex Honnold as he attempts what no one has done before, to climb the 3,000-foot wall of El Capitan without ropes or safety gear. FREE SOLO is a riveting but intense documentary with brief foul language and no acknowledgement of God or an afterlife. FREE SOLO is not for the faint of heart... Read full review here: https://www.movieguide.org/reviews/free-solo.html
The first episode of GOD FRIENDED ME follows an atheist podcaster who’s friended by God on Facebook, which opens up a slew of supernatural events that may challenge everything he believes about God. Read more here: https://www.movieguide.org/tv/god-friended-me/pilot
The pilot episode of MANIFEST begins with the Stone family in an airport waiting to return home after a Jamaican vacation. Michaela, along with her brother, Ben, and his son, Cal, who has cancer, choose to take a later flight to get voucher money...Read full review here:https://www.movieguide.org/tv/manifest/pilot
MONSTERS AND MEN follows the emotional, personal problems, caused by a police shooting of an unarmed black man, on three men: a fellow police officer, the young man who filmed the shooting and another young man drawn into protests because he’s tired of seeing fellow young black men stopped by police...Read full review here:https://www.movieguide.org/reviews/monsters-and-men-2.html
THE CHILDREN ACT is a story about a children’s judge in Britain and the judicial decisions she must face while she deals with personal problems with her husband, who’s upset about how she neglects him for her work. THE CHILDREN ACT is a dark, slow, artistic drama, with a strong humanist worldview where amoral government replaces religious faith, including both false and true religious faith, as the final arbiter of all things...Read full review here:https://www.movieguide.org/reviews/the-children-act.html
NIGHT SCHOOL is the story of a high school dropout who suddenly needs to get a GED diploma 20 years later, and the comically bizarre night school teacher and classmates he contends with along the way. NIGHT SCHOOL has a moral, pro-capitalist worldview promoting hard work, education, second chances, and acknowledgements of Christian prayer...Read full review here: https://www.movieguide.org/reviews/night-school-2018.html
LIFE ITSELF is the story of several different people whose lives are seemingly unrelated but ultimately tie together in profound ways, including a young married couple with a baby and a married couple in Spain. Alternately uplifting and shocking with some unnerving plot twists, LIFE ITSELF has a strong moral worldview overall, with a pro-life message, mitigated by some Romantic, pagan, immoral elements...Read full review here: https://www.movieguide.org/reviews/life-itself-2018.html
THE SISTERS BROTHERS is a Western with dark comedic moments about two hitmen brothers trying to track down a chemist who has a formula to find gold more quickly. THE SISTERS BROTHERS is smartly written and directed with unpredictable moments, but its worldview is mixed with positive messages of brotherly love as well as immoral pagan lawlessness and hedonism...Read full review here: https://www.movieguide.org/reviews/the-sisters-brothers.html
INDIVISIBLE is based on a true story about an army chaplain and his family, who must overcome personal and spiritual obstacles when the chaplain goes to war for the first time in Iraq, during the “surge” in 2007. INDIVISIBLE is a high-quality, God-honoring, emotional ride, which promotes a deep dedication to Christian faith and realistic Christian support for military families... Read full review here: https://www.movieguide.org/reviews/indivisible.html
THE OLD MAN & THE GUN is Robert Redford’s latest movie, where he plays a 76-year-old bank robber in 1981 who enjoys his “job” a little too much while he’s being hunted by a local robbery detective. Based on a true story, THE OLD MAN & THE GUN is an entertaining diversion with solid performances... read full review here:https://www.movieguide.org/reviews/the-old-man-the-gun.html
GOSNELL: THE TRIAL OF AMERICA’S BIGGEST SERIAL KILLER is a shocking expose of the horrible activities and unclean practices of an inner city late-term abortion doctor in Philadelphia who was found guilty of murdering several babies in his clinic after they were born...Read full review here:https://www.movieguide.org/reviews/gosnell-the-trial-of-americas-biggest-serial-killer.html
SMALLFOOT is an animated comedy adventure with a clear premise about a Yeti whose whole world thrown upside when he finds a “smallfoot” human, who he’s always been told doesn’t exist. SMALLFOOT is a cute idea, with some fun music, but fails to translate into a great movie, with some messages to be aware of, mixed with some positive moral lessons. Read full review here:https://www.movieguide.org/reviews/smallfoot.html
LITTLE WOMEN (2018), the beloved story by Louisa May Alcott, is coming back to the big screen as a modern adaption of the story about four precocious sisters who share the joys and sadness of life. LITTLE WOMEN is a fun re-telling of the story, with a positive moral worldview, but it could have flowed better and leaves out some wonderful faith elements in the original book... Read full review here:https://www.movieguide.org/reviews/little-women-2018.html
MILE 22 is a high-octane thriller starring Mark Wahlberg as James Silva, a highly-trained, brilliant paramilitary operative trying to protect an asset with valuable information about a major attack. MILE 22 has very intense moments, but bad writing leaves viewers wanting more... Read Full Review Here: https://www.movieguide.org/reviews/mile-22.html
THE NUN is the prequel horror movie to the CONJURING series, where this time a young nun and a priest go to an abandoned convent to investigate a nun’s strange death. THE NUN is well produced and has some overt Christian, moral references and themes of good versus demonic evil, but the theology is not always clear, and there are many scary scenes...Read Full Review Here: https://www.movieguide.org/reviews/the-nun.html
A.X.L. is an exciting but flawed science fiction movie about a hybrid creation known as an A.X.L., which is part dog and part weapon, who befriends a teenage boy. A.X.L. has some good heart, but poor execution with a poor script...Read full review here: https://www.movieguide.org/reviews/a-x-l.html
UNBROKEN is a harrowing story of the Christian Olympic athlete and World War II POW Louis Zamperini, who endured unimaginable hardship. UNBROKEN is an immensely powerful story filled with faith, hope and forgiveness. Extreme caution is due to some intense, brutal war elements and foul language... Read the Full Review Here:https://www.movieguide.org/reviews/unbroken.html
OPERATION FINALE follows the Israeli team that finds and tries to capture the notorious Nazi officer who engineered the Holocaust for Hitler, to bring him to trial in Israel...read more https://www.movieguide.org/reviews/operation-finale.html
CRAZY RICH ASIANS is a comedy about Rachel, a beautiful Asian economics professor at New York University, in love with a handsome young man from Singapore, who is heir to a massive fortune and has a mother who doesn’t approve of their relationship... See full review athttps://www.movieguide.org/reviews/crazy-rich-asians.html
GOD BLESS THE BROKEN ROAD tells a profound, poignant story of a war widow named Amanda who gets angry at God, loses her faith, and is brought to her knees to restore her life. The movie is very clean and evangelical, with brief war violence and deep, insightful discussions about why bad things happen to good people...See full review athttps://www.movieguide.org/reviews/god-bless-the-broken-road.html
DUCK DUCK GOOSE follows a stubborn goose named Ping who cares more about his pride than the benefit of his community. By the end of this delightful animated comedy, Ping learns his lesson by taking care of two young ducklings who need his help, and vice versa... Read Full Review https://www.movieguide.org/reviews/duck-duck-goose.html
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