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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 wi...

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 lega...

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...

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 p...

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 Edi...

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....

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....

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 o...

“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 mutu...

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. Final...

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...

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...

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 bos...

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...

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...

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 a...

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 es...

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 hi...

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...

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 for...

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...

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....

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...

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 at...

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 mo...