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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 th...

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 arriv...

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 tort...

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 f...

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 desperatel...

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. Howe...

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 sec...

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 f...

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...

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 a...

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, a...

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, s...

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 lif...

“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 accord...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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 ha...

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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, Bet...

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...

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 Je...

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 ge...

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...