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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...

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 pers...

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 matter...

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...

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 th...

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. Eventu...

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 a...

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,...

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, M...

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...

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. Reluctant...

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 a...

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 no...

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 tee...

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 advent...

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...

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...

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 Arie...

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...

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...

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 si...

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 ref...

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 lik...

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...

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...