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THE BEGINNING OF WISDOM is an hour long documentary about the history of Christianity and education in Colonial America and the first 100 years or so of the United States. The movie contends that the Puritans, the Pilgrims, early educators, the Founding Fathers, and the American people saw Christianity and the Bible as essential to a good education. For example, all of the early educational system...

REBEL MOON – PART TWO: THE SCARGIVER on Netflix continues Director Zach Snyder’s REBEL MOON – PART ONE: A CHILD OF FIRE. It tells a story about a group of rebels trying to defend an advanced agricultural society on an isolated moon. The evil galactic emperor has sent military forces led by an evil admiral to plunder all the moon’s grain. Kora, who used to work for the emperor until she switched si...

UNFROSTED is a quirky satire on Netflix. Set in the early 1960s, the story is a fictionalized account of the two big cereal companies in America, Kellogg’s and Post, locked in a battle to be the king of breakfast and trying to develop a fruit pastry for breakfast that doesn’t require milk. Both CEOs and their two right-hand men seek to create a new breakfast sensation. As the silly competition hea...

THELMA THE UNICORN is an animated comedy on Netflix. Thelma is a farm pony who sings with her two best friends in a band called The Rusty Buckets. However, the judges at a music festival called SparklePalooza reject Thelma and the band because Thelma looks like a “forgettable farm pony.” The next day at the farm, Thelma pretends to be a unicorn by sticking a carrot on her forehead with some mud. S...

FURIOSA: A MAD MAX SAGA is a prequel to MAD MAX: FURY ROAD. It tells the background story of the one-armed woman that Mad Max helped save, and how she became a female warrior at the Citadel, a rocky fortress in a post-apocalyptic Australian wilderness. As a young girl, a small band of bikers takes her from her oasis home. Her mother tries to save her but fails. Furiosa promises her mother to get h...

IF is a comical fantasy written and directed by John Krasinski of A QUIET PLACE and THE OFFICE. He stars as the widowed father of a 12-year-old girl, Bea. Bea’s staying with her grandmother while her father prepares for heart surgery in the hospital. One day, Bea finds a cartoon insect named Blossom and a large furry blue creature named Blue lurking around the building. They are friends of a man n...

KINGDOM OF THE PLANET OF THE APES focuses on a young adult chimpanzee, Noa, who must rescue his kidnapped mother, friends and friends from a gorilla army led by a power-mad king. Along the way, Noa meets a wise orangutang and a human female who can talk. The wise orangutang inspires Noa with talk of mercy, compassion and peaceful unity. However, the young woman has some hidden reasons for her oppo...

THE GARFIELD MOVIE is an animated comedy that shows how Garfield became the gluttonous feline we all know and love. In the beginning, Garfield is in an alley with his father telling Garfield that he will be right back as he goes to find food. Garfield goes into a restaurant where Jon feeds Garfield some Italian food and takes Garfield home. Soon, Garfield is caught in a trap by two thugs, who take...

SCOOP is a British drama on Netflix about a female journalist named Sam McAlister who works for the BBC and hunts for stories that actually matter. Sam finds out that the controversial Duke of York, Prince Andrew, is connected to convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein. She follows some disturbing leads that start to pay off. Sam tries to get an interview with the Prince. After being initially reje...

ZORRO is a new Spanish imagining of the classic hero, dubbed into English for Amazon Prime. The series is set in colonial California in the 1830s. Returning to the colony of Los Angeles after learning of his father’s murder, Diego de la Vega takes up the mantle of a dead Native American hero, Zorro, to bring justice to California and its people. In Season One, the people are often overlooked or ou...

DAMSEL is a fantasy adventure on Netflix about a young princess named Elodie whose parents marry her off to the Prince of a wealthy island kingdom, to save their own people from starvation. However, after the wedding, Princess Elodie is taken to a secret ceremony in the mountain overlooking the castle and thrown into a chasm. Elodie survives the fall and discovers she’s the latest of many princess...

WOODY WOODPECKER GOES TO CAMP starts with Woody Woodpecker causing mayhem in the forest where he lives. The other animals banish Woody until he learns teamwork. Sadly, Woody leaves his forest home but soon runs across a summer camp called Camp Woo Hoo. The sign says the camp is “Dedicated to Teamwork.” So, Woody worms his way into the camp, where he finds new friends and new challenges. He must he...

The final episode of BLUEY: Season Three on Disney+ shows Bluey and her sister, Bingo, running their father, Bandit, ragged. Instead of playing the same game, Bingo wants Bandit to take care of her pretend children, but Bingo wants to play a kind of hide and seek where Bingo pops out, yells, “Surprise, and then pelts Bandit with little Nerf balls from a toy gun. Meanwhile, Bingo wants her father t...

Episode Three and Four of COUNTY RESCUE on Great American Family continue the story of who will be chosen the new EMT at an ambulance facility in Nashville. Dani, Tim and Griffin are all competing for one new job. Tim becomes jealous when Dani spends some time with Griffin. Dani discovers she and Griffin have issues in common. Dani loses faith in her ability to get the EMT job when Tim becomes a h...

Season Three of BLUEY on Disney Plus nears the end with Episode 48 and 49, titled “Ghostbasket” and “The Sign.” “Ghostbasket” contains a reappearance of Bluey and Bingo’s favorite game, Grannies. In this episode, Rita and Janet, played by Bluey and her sister Bingo, are trying to stop their house from getting sold. Episode 49: “The Sign” has two main storylines. The first storyline is Bluey and he...

ARCADIAN is a surprisingly good horror movie starring Nicholas Cage. Cage stars as Paul, the father of two twin 15-year-old boys. Fifteen years ago, Earth was depopulated by mysterious creatures. Now, Paul and his sons, Thomas and Joseph, are living in an isolated, fortified farmhouse in a remote valley, somewhere in Canada. Their lives are tranquil by day and terrifying by night. When the sun set...

THE MINISTRY OF UNGENTLEMANLY WARFARE is a war movie and spy thriller based on a true story from World War II. In January 1942, an elite force of British commandoes and spies conducted a mission against a German merchant ship off the west central coast of Africa. The ship regularly supplied weapons and food to German U-boats preventing trade ships from reaching Britain. The commandos are reckless,...

THE LONG GAME follows a group of Mexican American teenagers in 1955 Texas who love the game of golf but are restricted from playing at the country club where they caddy. When School Superintendent JB Peña gets denied from the country club just because he’s Mexican, he’s distraught. JB starts his new job as Superintendent of the school district and sees the boys playing golf in an open field. JB en...

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...

UNSUNG HERO is a true story about a Christian family from Australia’s struggles to survive and thrive in the rough and tumble music business while trying to serve God. When the father, David Smallbone, loses big on promoting an unsuccessful tour, he thinks relocating the family to Nashville may be their best route forward. Odd jobs and a local church keep the family afloat while David seeks work i...

MEGAMIND VS. THE DOOM SYNDICATE is a sequel, streaming on Peacock, to the 2010 animated movie MEGAMIND, as well as and the pilot for the Peacock series MEGAMIND RULES! Former master of all villains, Megamind is the defender of Metro City. His former crew of criminals, The Doom Syndicate, break out of jail to take over Metro City. Megamind must keep up evil appearances until he can hatch a plan wit...

IRISH WISH is a fun, frothy romantic comedy on Netflix with positive views of miracles. Lindsay Lohan stars as Maddie, the editor of a successful, egotistical romance writer, Paul. Maddie wants to tell Paul she loves him but doesn’t have the nerve. Maddie is stunned when Paul and her best friend, Emma meet and embark on a whirlwind romance that leads to an Irish wedding months later. In Ireland, M...

Season One of MEGAMIND RULES! on Peacock picks up where Peacock’s TV movie MEGAMIND VS DOOM SYNDICATE left off. Megamind is finding his way after giving up his evil ways. He soon discovers that doing the right thing is harder than he thought. Metro City’s superhero faces new obstacles like trying to go viral on social media, fighting new villains and stopping The Doom Syndicate from terrorizing Me...

A special two-day release, IRENA’S VOW follows the true story of a Catholic woman named Irena who protected some Jewish people during the Nazi Germany’s invasion of Poland in World War II. When the National Socialists take over Poland and invade Irena’s house, she is misplaced, but soon she’s placed in a position to manage a group of Jewish tailors. When the war is heightened, Irena is moved to ho...

QUIET ON SET: THE DARK SIDE OF KIDS TV is an important five-part documentary exposé streaming on Max. The documentary miniseries discusses the abuse occurring on several Nickelodeon programs produced by Dan Schneider, who got his start starring on ABC-TV’s popular sitcom HEAD OF THE CLASS in the late 1980s. As he succeeded in producing hit after hit for Nickelodeon, Schneider allegedly became more...