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LEGACY PEAK is an adventure movie streaming on PureFlix. FAST & FURIOUS actor Lucas Black plays Jason, who wants to bond with his girlfriend’s two children before he proposes on Christmas Eve. He plans to fly the children, Ben and his older sister Sam, to their grandparents while his girlfriend finishes up work before the holidays. However, after going off-course, a flock of birds hits the plane,...

STYLED WITH LOVE is a bouncy, good-natured romantic comedy on UPtv. Inspired by her grandmother, a seamstress, Rosie Pink moves to Chicago to open her own personal styling business, with a strong focus on fashion. She comes to an agreement with her best friend’s cousin, Jaxon, a photographer who needs to improve his professional portfolio. Jaxon will take photos of Rosie and her customers that she...

THE ENGAGEMENT PLOT is a romantic drama on UPtv. Will, founder of a successful cosmetics business, reluctantly agrees to do a Bachelor TV series, THE PRICE OF LOVE, to boost his company’s sales. In the process, he meets Hanna, a very real young woman, with whom he begins to fall in love. When pressure from the television studio convinces him to reject Hanna in favor of another contestant, his poor...

UNCLE TOM II: AN AMERICAN ODYSSEY is a conservative, faith-friendly documentary on SalemNOW. Eleven black conservatives, including several strong black Christian leaders, show the American, Christian, capitalist roots of black people in the United States since the Civil War. They also describe how angry socialists and communists have been destroying those roots in the last 120 years and decimating...

MY SON HUNTER is a satirical drama about President Joe Biden’s son, Hunter. It focuses on Joe and Hunter’s personal and professional relationship. It focuses on Hunter’s addiction to drugs and sex, plus Hunter and Joe’s controversial dealings with foreign nationals in Central Europe, Russia, and Communist China. The story starts one night in December 2019, after the FBI has taken possession of one...

SAMARITAN is a superhero movie on Amazon Prime starring Sylvester Stallone. Sam is the 13-year-old son of a single mom in Granite City, a gritty metropolis that exists in a comic-book America. Sam thinks a mysterious loner named Joe living in Sam’s apartment complex is a missing superhero. Joe denies Sam’s theory but becomes a mentor to Sam when his mother asks him to guide Sam after Sam gets invo...

FALL is a harrowing adventure movie about two women climbers. Becky is mourning her husband, Dan’s, accidental climbing death a year earlier. Her father tries to help, but he just drives her away. Shiloh Hunter, who was climbing with Becky and Dan that day, contacts Becky. A daredevil climber and gregarious podcast host, Hunter challenges Becky into coming with her on a daring 2,000-foot climb on...

LUCK is an animated comedy on Apple TV Plus about Sam, an orphan who constantly experiences bad luck and befriends a lucky Scottish cat named Bob, but, when her luck runs out, both she and Bob could be in trouble from the leaders of good and bad luck. LUCK is well animated, with some good messages promoting family, friendship and selfless unconditional love, but these themes are marred by pagan su...

PERSUASION is a new adaptation on Netflix of a Jane Austen novel. A young woman named Anne turns down the proposal of a man named Wentworth because her friends persuade her that he isn’t rich enough for her. Eight years later, Anne still thinks about Wentworth. Wentworth visits her area and goes to dinner with Anne’s family. However, Anne stays home to take care of her nephew. When the family retu...

LOVE, GAME, MATCH is a light romance on UPtv about two mismatched teachers at a high school in Santa Barbara, California. Liz is the new economics teachers at Faraday High School, and Ted is the phys ed teacher and tennis coach. Much to her chagrin, Liz ends up working together with Ted on planning the school’s annual Carnival Day before school break. They butt heads a few times. However, they dis...

In the final episode of Season One of STAR TREK: STRANGE NEW WORLDS on Paramount Plus, Captain Pike gets a chance to warn two ensigns about a future accident that paralyzes Pike and kills them. Pike plans to write a warning letter, when an older version of himself appears. Pike’s future self tells Pike that, if he changes the future, it will have terrible consequences. Pike is skeptical. So, his f...

SECRET HEADQUARTERS is a slightly convoluted, teenage, humorous superhero movie on Paramount Plus. The movie stars Owen Wilson as Jack, a family man with a wife and a young son. During a camping outing, Jack finds an alien object, which turns him into a superhero who can do many good deeds. However, he keeps his superpowers secret from his family, and, years later, his super exploits have alienate...

DAY OF THE SIEGE is a powerful, evocative war movie about the 1683 Battle of Vienna that saved Christian Europe from Islamic conquers. In the summer of 1683, 300,000 Muslim warriors of the Ottoman Empire began the siege of Vienna. The fall of the city opens the way to conquer Christian Europe. On September 11, the main battle begins. The survival of western civilization is on the line. A humble mo...

STAR TREK II: THE WRATH OF KHAN is celebrating its 40th Anniversary. One of Captain Kirk’s old enemies, Khan Noonien Singh, is discovered on the planet where Kirk left him. Once a paradise, the planet has become a wasteland. Khan now wants to avenge his wife’s death. Khan tries to steal a device that can destroy a planet but create a new paradise. When Kirk takes the Enterprise to see what’s happe...

PURSUIT OF FREEDOM is an intense, powerful drama about a woman from Ukraine who gets separated from her three children. Anna’s husband owes some money to gangsters. He gambles to get the money but eventually loses. The gangsters try to kidnap the family. The children get away, but Anna is sold to some Russian sex traffickers in Amsterdam. Three years later, Anna becomes sick and is dumped on the s...

SERGEANT YORK stars Gary Cooper as Alvin York, a good-hearted, but hard drinking farmer in the Tennessee hills. His claim to fame is his astounding marksmanship. On his way to kill someone who cheated him, lightning knocks him off his horse and splits his rifle down the middle. Alvin takes this as confirmation from God of some lessons taught him by the local pastor. He immediately goes to get save...

13: THE MUSICAL is a fun musical on Netflix. Evan is a 12-year-old Jewish boy. When his parents get a divorce, his mother moves them from New York City to Indiana right before his Bar Mitzva to live with her mother. Eager to make new friends, Evan meets Patrice, a quirky girl in his grade who shows him the town. The two get along well. However, when Evan sees the popular group, he wants to make fr...

EASTER SUNDAY is a comedy starring popular Filipino-American comic Jo Koy. Jo is up for a big television part. He’s trying to make it in Hollywood and is gaining traction, but it’s Easter, and he needs to go see his family. When he arrives with his son, Junior, he finds his family is in total chaos, with his mother and aunt fighting, and his cousin owing a loan shark $40,000. Will Jo be able to he...

STRONG FATHERS, STRONG DAUGHTERS is a family comedy streaming on Pure Flix. A wealthy businessman named Steve Parston is surprised by his oldest daughter, Abby’s, sudden engagement to a missionary. Steve wants to support his first-born daughter, but he’s disappointed she wants to do missions and not continue in their family business. Steve wants to protect his daughter and hatches a plan to keep A...

DC LEAGUE OF SUPER-PETS is a comical animated adventure involving Superman’s dog, Krypto, and his misfit shelter friends who get superpowers. The super-pets fight to save Superman from Lex Luther’s former laboratory guinea pig, Lulu, who kidnaps Superman. They try to get help from the Justice League of superheroes, but they too are captured and imprisoned by Lulu. It’s now up to Krypto, who has mo...

VENGEANCE is a mystery thriller. The story is about a shallow, condescending, ambitious New York City magazine writer, Ben, who’s enticed by Ty, a “good old boy” in West Texas, to investigate the mysterious drug overdose of Ty’s sister, Abby. Ty and his family mistakenly think Abby was Ben’s girlfriend when she lived in New York. In reality, she was just one of Ben’s many conquests. Ty wants Ben t...

NOPE is a unique horror, science fiction movie from popular black filmmaker Jordan Peele. The hero is a laconic black cowboy, Otis “OJ” Haywood, who’s recently inherited the family horse wrangling ranch in an isolated desert mountain gulch outside Los Angeles. His family, including his recently deceased father, have long rented horses to the entertainment industry, since silent movie days. A stran...

LIVE+LOCAL is a six-episode TV sitcom on the Pure Flix streaming outlet. The series focuses on the conflicts, troubles and interplay between Tommy Murphy and Tina Knott, the co-hosts of a morning radio show on a struggling Christian radio station somewhere in Middle America. The morning show includes comical bits and interviews with real Christian artists, comics and authors. When the long-time ow...

MARCEL THE SHELL WITH SHOES ON is a live action Claymation comedy about a little seashell wearing tennis shoes who has been living with his grandmother at a rental house. Two years ago, the married owners had a big fight, and the man left. However, Marcel’s parents and brother, and their whole community, got scared, hid in a drawer and accidentally were scooped up by the husband. Marcel and his gr...

PREY is a science fiction movie on Hulu where a group of Comanche Indian warriors on the American Plains in 1719, led by a hunter and his sister, battles an alien hunter equipped with futuristic technology. Part of the Predator franchise, the movie focuses on Naru and her brother, Taabe, members of the Comanche tribe. Naru wants to hunt with the young men, but the men laugh. Her brother, Taabe, is...