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A CINDERELLA CHRISTMAS BALL is a joyful Christmas romance on Great American Family. A young dance teacher, Chelsea Jones, travels to a small European country in search of her lost father. She hopes filling in the missing pieces of her deceased mother’s past will help her find the father she’s never known. However, when she meets dashing Prince Philip, she may have discovered something important to...

In COUPLED UP FOR CHRISTMAS, Tiffany and Peter meet by chance. They quickly cook up a scheme to fake a relationship to make their exes jealous and win them back from their new partners. Tiffany and Peter start spending time together, telling their friends and family they’ve been dating for awhile. However, as they grow closer together, they start to wonder if their fake relationship is really so f...

THE SIX TRIPLE EIGHT, Tyler Perry’s war drama, is about the only U.S. Black Women’s Auxiliary Battalion to serve on foreign soil during World War II. Lena Derriecott is a grieving young black woman who loses her young Jewish boyfriend in the war. After high school, Lena decides to join the 6888th Battalion to fight Hitler. The black women are assigned the insurmountable task to sort 17 million pie...

PERFECT DAYS is a drama in Japanese, directed by acclaimed German director Wim Wenders. The movie is about a middle-aged man named Hirayama and his steady, mundane life. It follows him through the same schedule every day. For example, he listens to his cassette tapes while driving to work, cleans public toilets, takes pictures of trees, washes up, goes out for dinner, and then reads his book. Some...

THE COUNT OF MONTE-CRISTO is a French historical drama set in the early 1800s. Edmond Dantes is wrongly imprisoned for a crime he didn’t commit. In prison, Edmond befriends a scholarly priest with a vast amount of knowledge about Europe. They plan to escape, but the priest dies. So, 16 years later, Edmond escapes and uses the dead priest’s hidden treasure to pose as a filthy rich nobleman. Through...

SONIC THE HEDGEHOG 3 opens with a mysterious hedgehog with superpowers named Shadow escaping a military prison where he’s been held for 50 years. Shadow eventually teams up with Dr. Robotnik and Dr. Robotnik’s grandfather, who are both bent on revenge against Earth. They’re after a powerful weapon created by an international military and law enforcement agency protecting Earth from alien threats....

BLIPPI’S ULTIMATE BOUNCE HOUSE CHALLENGES is a series streaming on Netflix that follows Blippi and Meekah as they have fun, play games, and work together to complete challenges in giant bounce houses in honor of Blippi’s 10th anniversary. The show is full of bright colors and educational moments.

SAINT NICK OF BETHLEHEM is a story about dealing with grief around Christmas time. Nick McNulty is a middle-aged man who’s lost his son. After seeing an old flame, he wants to start spreading Christmas cheer to everyone. Nick gets a job with his miserly brother and starts helping many people in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania. This brings joy into his life by seeing the good in everything. However, this p...

THOMAS AND FRIENDS: THE CHRISTMAS LETTER EXPRESS is an hour-long Christmas special streaming on Netflix. The special follows Thomas the Tank Engine and his locomotive friends as they prepare for Christmas. They deliver cookies and untangle Christmas lights that have entangled some trains. They help deliver a missing letter to Santa from a child named Ryan. The trains work together to make Ryan’s C...

CHRISTMAS UNDER THE NORTHERN LIGHTS is a marvelous Christmas romance on Great American Family. It hits all the sweet spots, most importantly giving credit to Jesus as the reason for the Christmas season. Erin is a big city author with writer’s block. Her father invites her to his hometown to finally sell their family property. She accepts in order to support her father and perhaps to find some ins...

CHRISTMAS IN SCOTLAND on Great American Family follows Emma, a professional decorator who travels to Scotland with her father. They want to learn more about their ancestry, but Emma quickly gets involved in helping the local town win a Christmas decorating contest. A cash prize and Christmas tourism dollars are at stake. Emma must work with Alex, the son of a prominent member of town, however. Sad...

GET HIM BACK FOR CHRISTMAS is an entertaining Christmas romance on Great American Family that focuses on many biblical values. After her superstar boyfriend calls for a break over Christmas, Bella begins work on a song to win him back to her. To achieve this, she partners with her childhood best friend, Jack. In return, she promises to perform in Jack’s Jingle Jam concert. Eventually, however, Bel...

ONCE UPON A CHRISTMAS WISH on Great American Family is a delightful “Christmas romance meets Old Hollywood” spectacular. Mario Lopez stars as Brian Ortega, a small-town mayor who revisits his childhood Christmas wish list. He discovers a deeper meaning of Christmas and a rekindled appreciation for his community. Meanwhile, a real estate tycoon has plans to turn the town into something more modern,...

A NOVEL CHRISTMAS is a strong Christmas romance airing on UPtv. The story follows Chloe, a children’s book author unsure what her next writing project should be. She travels to Noelville, the last stop on her book tour. She plans to spend Christmas with her family, who’ve just moved there. In Noelville, she meets Ethan, a bookstore owner and father to a young daughter who dreams of being a writer....

LET IT SNOW is a wonderful Christmas movie with plenty of holiday spirit. Stephanie Beck is a big-time executive at her callous father’s company. Dad sends her to a rustic winter family lodge over the Christmas holiday. He wants Stephanie to create a plan to turn the “mom and pop” Christmas wonderland into a trendy world-class resort. In a surprise twist, the career-oriented young woman falls in l...

MUFASA: THE LION KING is an animated action adventure musical. It tells the exciting story of how Simba’s father became King. Young Mufasa and his family were living in a drought-ravaged land. They are heading toward Milele, a lush land beyond the horizon. A sudden thunderstorm creates a flood. It sweeps Mufasa far away, to a savannah. Mufasa becomes adopted by another pride. He makes friends with...

TEA TOWN TEDDY BEARS is a delightful, beautifully animated series about little teddy bears who get into problems and find out that doing the right thing solves the problem. In Episode 1.01, “Friends Stick Together,” Ginger gets glue all over her hand while trying to glue a flower to a hat. She doesn’t take the time to wash her hands, and because of that she and her friends literally stick together...

THREE WISER MEN AND A BOY is a hilarious Christmas comedy on the Hallmark Channel. A sequel to THREE WISER MEN AND A BABY, the movie follows three brothers, Luke, Stephan and Taylor. They work to help Luke’s son put on a school Christmas play. Complicating matters is their mother’s new boyfriend, Roy, a pastor. The brothers aren’t taking it well. They resent Roy for invading their family’s Christm...

BELIEVE IN CHRISTMAS is a Christmas romance on the Hallmark Channel. Beatrice is a former foster child with few good memories of Christmas. She accompanies best friend Emilia on a trip to the small town of Christmasland, a place that promises to deliver the “holiday movie experience.” Beatrice starts to warm to the idea of Christmas. However, she begins to question the truth behind her experiences...

A BLUEGRASS CHRISTMAS is a delightful Christmas romance movie on UPtv. Kate is an equine vet who works on her family’s horse sanctuary. However, their largest donor pulls his funding when Kate tells him his injured horse isn’t ready to race. The man’s son, Grant, comes to Kate to apologize. When he learns that Kate’s grandfather, Ben, is a retired but famous bluegrass artist, he suggests they put...

OUT OF MY MIND is a wonderful uplifting story on Disney+ about Melody, a girl with cerebral palsy who proves she’s just as capable as any other girl her age. Melody gets the chance to join a normal classroom. Also, she proves her intelligence when she qualifies for her school’s “Wiz Kid” national trivia tournament. Though she’s the most capable person on the team, she continues to be overlooked an...

A LITTLE WOMEN’S CHRISTMAS is a modern retelling on Great American Family of Luisa May Alcott’s classic 1869 novel, LITTLE WOMEN. It places the four March sisters in a new set of circumstances. When faced with a two-week deadline to develop a new book, Jo March finds herself grasping for inspiration while heading home for Christmas. Jo meets a fellow writer who reignites her imagination. The two f...

THE WAR OF THE ROHIRRIM is an animated version of a short story by Tolkien, who wrote LORD OF THE RINGS. The reign of Helm, the Ninth King of Rohan, is plagued by conflict with “wildmen” from Dunland. A wealthy warlord from Dunland proposes marriage between his son, Wulf, and Helm’s daughter, Héra. However, Helm refuses and mocks the warlord, who challenges Helm to a fight. Helm knocks him dead wi...

HOMESTEAD is about the aftermath of a collapsed civilization. Ian Ross, a wealthy man, has built a compound for such a time. Ross insists the compound can only sustain a limited number of people. He hires a small militia to protect it. The militia clashes with the inhabitants who have a moral problem with locking out those in need. A tragedy occurs and the conflict escalates. Is there a way to tur...

WALLACE & GROMIT: VENGEANCE MOST FOWL is a very funny British movie, with scary detective story elements. A criminal penguin named Feathers McGraw steals the Blue Diamond. However, Wallace and his dog, Gromit, trap him and turn him over to the police, who put him in maximum security, in this case a zoo. Now, Feathers McGrew wants vengeance on Wallace and Gromit. He frames Wallace and Gromit for st...