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Movieguide®, the number one family review service for movies and television shows, has officially announced the nominees for its 31st Annual MOVIEGUIDE® Faith & Values Awards Gala & Report to the Entertainment Industry. The Awards Gala will take place on Friday, February 9th at the iconic Avalon Theatre in Hollywood and will broadcast on Great American Family later this spring.

2019 was full of incredible movies that families will enjoy for years to come! Here are just a few that were honored at the 28th Annual Movieguide® Awards!

MASTERS OF THE AIR is a patriotic miniseries on Apple TV+ about the 100th Bomber Group of the U.S. Army’s 8th Air Force during World War II in Europe. The first two episodes focus on the first two missions that the two leading squadron commanders, Gale Cleven and John Egan, and their men face together. In the first mission, the Bombing Group and two other groups must fly back without hitting their...

PERCY JACKSON AND THE OLYMPIANS is a live action fantasy adventure series on Disney Plus. After losing his mother to a minotaur, 12-year-old Percy Jackson is thrust into a world where Greek mythology is a reality. Percy is bullied by his peers but strives to prove his worth. He takes on a dangerous quest to retrieve Zeus’ stolen lightning bolt before war breaks out between the Olympian gods. Can P...

In Episode Five, Season Two of REACHER on Amazon Prime, Reacher and the surviving members of his former Army unit find out the reason their three friends were killed. It’s all part of a terrorist plot to sell 650 state-of-the-art anti-aircraft missiles that can shoot commercial planes out of the air. The team discovers the mysterious arms dealer’s henchmen have hijacked the missiles. Their plans t...

LOVE ON RETREAT is a romantic comedy on UPtv. As the movie opens, Jenny Lee works very hard as her demanding boss, Gwen Martin’s, personal assistant and social media manager. Gwen orders Jenny to work with her adventure-seeking brother, Nate, to develop activities for the company’s annual retreat in Clearwater, Florida. Also, Jenny pleads with Gwen to consider her to lead the company’s social medi...

Season 3 of VINDICATION is an engrossing, brilliantly written police drama streaming on Redeem TV and Great American Pure Flix. A new murder case confronts the program’s hero, Detective Gary Travis, who became a Christian in Season 1 and 2. This time, however, a member of Gary’s own household becomes a suspect. Also, he’s arrested himself, and his protégé in the police department, Kris, goes missi...

BLIPPI’S BIG DINO ADVENTURE is a fantasy adventure movie on Netflix based on the popular TV programs for young children. Blippi is an adult with a childlike curiosity and lively personality who teaches young children about things like American Sign Language, cooking, crafting, science, math, and more. Blippi wears a blue and orange cap and sneakers. orange glasses, blue shirt, orange suspenders, a...

THE LOVE ADVISOR is a romantic comedy on UPtv. Abby is a gifted writer with a good understanding of true love. However, her boss, Serena, is a phony, attention-seeking, hack. Abby writes and produces for their popular podcast on love and relationships, but Serena takes all the credit. Jack is a handsome journalist from New York City, who’s assigned to write a story about the successful podcast. He...

MY ADVENTURES WITH SUPERMAN: Season One is streaming on the Warner Bros. Max platform. It’s a fun, campy reimagining of the early career of the world’s most famous superhero character. The series is set in Clark Kent’s early twenties as he starts a new internship at The Daily Planet. The program follows his struggles to keep his job, develop a relationship with Lois Lane, and learn how to use his...

SNOOPY PRESENTS: WELCOME HOME, FRANKLIN is a wonderful 40-minute animated movie on Apple TV+ about a young boy named Franklin who moves to Charlie Brown’s hometown and searches for friends. Franklin’s dad is in the military, so the family often moves to different towns. Franklin navigates the situation by consulting a book his grandpa wrote to give Franklin advice. When the Soap Box Derby competit...

The final episode of BLUEY: Season Three on Disney+ shows Bluey and her sister, Bingo, running their father, Bandit, ragged. Instead of playing the same game, Bingo wants Bandit to take care of her pretend children, but Bingo wants to play a kind of hide and seek where Bingo pops out, yells, “Surprise, and then pelts Bandit with little Nerf balls from a toy gun. Meanwhile, Bingo wants her father t...

THE BOOK OF CLARENCE is a fictional historical comedy set in Jerusalem in 33 AD just as Jesus is about to enter Jerusalem and be crucified. In the story, the fictionalized criminal, atheist twin brother of the Apostle Thomas decides to pose as a Jewish messiah to fleece people out of money. Clarence needs the money because he owes lots to a local criminal, the brother of the woman. he loves. Clare...

DESIGNING CHRISTMAS WITH YOU is a Christmas romance on the Great American Family network. Colbie is an ambitious interior designer named Colbie. She takes on a commission to decorate the historic Chapman House for its annual Christmas fundraiser. However, she needs to work with Ben, the estate’s manager. Colbie’s innovative spirit and Ben’s commitment to tradition cause them to butt heads, even as...

In Season Two, Episode Two of REACHER on Netflix, Jack Reacher and two surviving members of his former Army investigative unit, Frances and David, continue their investigation into the murder of three members of the unit. They discover the NYPD police are trailing them. They need a new vehicle. So, they engage the help of another investigator, Karla Dixon, who’s finished an undercover assignment....

MERRY LITTLE BATMAN is a comical animated adventure movie on Amazon Prime. Bruce Wayne’s 8-year-son, Damian, is determined to prove to his dad he can be a superhero like Batman, Bruce’s alter-ego. Bruce is the overprotective father. He’s no longer interested in crime fighting, because Gotham City is now crime free. On Christmas Eve, Batman’s called away on a mission for the first time in years. Da...

12 GAMES OF CHRISTMAS on the Great American Family network is about six friends at a Christmas get-together. After dinner, they start a board game and are transported magically into the Christmas town of Yuletide. After meeting the mayor, they agree to play a game that involves performing tasks having to do with Christmas spirit. The object of the game is to learn the true meaning of Christmas. Ea...

In FERRARI, Enzo Ferrari, a former racecar driver from Italy, now makes cars. The movie focuses on three months in 1957. Enzo’s drivers are in a losing slump, and he must find a way to win if the auto industry is going to take Ferrari seriously. Ahead of a 1,000-mile race across Italy, Enzo and his team push past human limits to create a winning car and a winning driver. Meanwhile, he and his wife...

LEAVE THE WORLD BEHIND is a thriller in theaters and on Netflix. Amanda and Clay are happily married, with two teenage children, but the stress of New York City is getting to Amanda. The family escapes to a lavish Long Island rental home for a weekend of peaceful relaxation. Their solitude is short-lived when a cyberattack knocks out wifi, then electricity. Late at night, a black man named George...

BANK OF DAVE is a story about a man who loves the people in his community and shares his wealth with others. Dave even stands up to the elite government, socialist establishment who continue to gain millions, as others lose everything. A self-conscious young lawyer, Hugh, is sent to let Dave down gently, because his law firm thinks Dave has no chance establishing a new bank. However, after a few d...

FREUD’S LAST SESSION is a fictional drama about Sigmund Freud, the atheist father of psychoanalysis, having an intense discussion with Christian apologist C.S. Lewis in 1939 London. In 1938, Freud and his daughter, Anna, had fled Nazi-controlled Vienna and moved to a house in London. Suffering from terminal jaw cancer, Freud asks Lewis to meet him. After a few pleasantries and a brief memory flash...

THE IRON CLAW tells the true story of a wrestling family in the 1980s who gained recognition. After the death of his older brother, Kevin has become the oldest of four brothers. The family is said to have a curse on them, but Kevin doesn’t believe it. When he fails at becoming a champion wrestler, his younger brothers also try wrestling. His brother, David, travels to fight in a big wrestling comp...

In AQUAMAN AND THE LOST KINGDOM, Aquaman must stop David Kane, aka Black Manta, from destroying the world. David has become possessed by an ancient demonic ruler of a defeated undersea kingdom. The demonic leader has helped David get hold of some ancient banned undersea technology from Atlantis that’s greatly accelerating global warming. David has used the energy source to repair and improve his B...

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,...

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 fe...