Harrison Ford returns in INDIANA JONES AND THE DIAL OF DESTINY. In 1944, Indiana Jones and his friend, Basil Shaw, fight a National Socialist engineer named Voller for half of an ancient device invented by Greek mathematician Archimedes. Basil and Voller believe the device, when completed, can open a fissure in time to change the past. Twenty-five …

TRANSFORMERS: RISE OF THE BEASTS opens with a band of robots shaped like animals leaving their home planet and escaping to Earth to evade Unicron, a huge planet-eating robot. Called Maximals, the animal robots have a Transwarp Key that allows them to travel across space and time preserving life. Thousands of years later, in 1994, a young former mil…

THE FLASH begins with a superb action scene where Barry Allen, aka The Flash, saves some people, including some babies from a maternity ward, from a sinkhole and a falling hospital building. Barry discovers he can go back in time by running faster than the speed of light. So, he goes back to make sure his mother wasn’t murdered and his father wasn’…

ELEMENTAL is an animated fantasy from Pixar and Disney. The story takes place in Element City where water, fire, land, and air people live together, but not always peacefully. Ember, an adult female fire creature, is set to take over her father’s business when he retires. However, he keeps postponing his retirement because she can’t control her tem…

SOUND OF FREEDOM follows the inspiring true story of Tim Ballard, a former government agent who puts his life on the line to rescue hundreds of children from sex trafficking. After an operation that saves a young boy from trafficking, Tim learns the boy’s sister has also been sold into the sex trade. At first, he continues to operate under Homeland…

YOU HURT MY FEELINGS offers a gentle look at the white lies people tell their loved ones to avoid hurting their feelings. Beth and Don have been married about 30 years. Their adult son is in his mid-twenties and is going through a crisis of what to do with his life while working in a marijuana dispensary. Beth, a writing teacher, overhears Don tell…

THE BOOGEYMAN is a horror movie loosely based on Stephen King’s short story about a man haunted by a monster with supernatural powers. This time, however, it’s a psychotherapist’s own two daughters being haunted by the creature, not the man who’s had three children killed by it. Will Harper doesn’t believe his younger daughter, Sawyer’s, stories ab…

LET ME HAVE MY SON is a drama about an elderly Christian man in Minnesota searching for his son at a mental hospital. Although Ben Whitmore has been told to come retrieve his son, Benny, the hospital’s lead psychiatrist, Dr. Bitterman, seems to be preventing him from seeing Benny. Then, Benny goes missing from the Infirmary. As Ben searches for Ben…

I WILL SOAR is an extraordinary documentary testimony on Pure Flix about one man’s calling to build a successful high school football program at an impoverished city school in his own hometown. Coach “T.J.” Jackson builds student-athletes into “mighty men” ready for exceptional lives beyond the playing field. His genius in building teams reaches ev…

Harrison Ford returns in INDIANA JONES AND THE DIAL OF DESTINY. In 1944, Indiana Jones and his friend, Basil Shaw, fight a National Socialist engineer named Voller for half of an ancient device invented by Greek mathematician Archimedes. Basil and Voller believe the device, when completed, can open a fissure in time to change the past. Twenty-five …

In SPIDER-MAN: ACROSS THE SPIDER-VERSE, Miles Morales encounters a new supervillain calling himself “The Spot.” The Spot is able to throw a large black spot onto a bank vault and steal money or escape through one of the spots he casts. When The Spot amasses enough power to threaten the multiverse, Miles teams up with a society of Spider-Men or Spid…

SPELLERS is a documentary that challenges the viewpoint that non-speakers who have autism have a cognitive disability. Through the lens of eight non-speakers and their parents, SPELLERS shows that a new wave of voices have been found through the use of a letterboard. The letterboards allow non-speakers to spell out each word and form whole sentence…

ABOUT MY FATHER stars popular standup comic Sebastian Maniscalco. Sebastian plays a successful Hilton hotel manager who wants to propose to his girlfriend, Ellie, at a July Fourth visit to her parents’ summer home. However, his old school Sicilian father, Salvatore, played by Robert DeNiro, won’t let Sebastian use his grandmother’s ring until the f…

LEARNING TO LOVE is an exuberant, cheerful movie on Pure Flix. It starts with what seems a mistaken job interview between Steph, a proven female ad executive, and Harry, a work-from-home architect looking for a live-in teacher to homeschool his two young daughters. When Steph adds prayer and Bible stories into the curriculum, the situation turns in…

In Episode 309 of STAR TREK: PICARD on Paramount Plus, Counselor Deanna Troi and Admiral Picard’s son, Jack, open the red door in Jack’s mind. They find there’s a Borg Cube lurking behind the red door. Picard’s crew discover that the Borg Collective rewrote part of Picard’s genetic code with Borg information when the Borg captured him 35 years ago.…

FLAMIN’ HOT tells the life story of Richard Montañez, a Mexican American boy who becomes a very successful executive for Frito Lay by inventing flaming hot versions of Frito Lay snacks. Streaming on Hulu and Disney Plus, the movie shows Richard’s difficult life as a Mexican American living in the greater Los Angeles area. It shows how he met his fu…

PETER PAN & WENDY on Disney Plus is a fantasy based on the Peter Pan play and novel by J. M. Barrie and the 1953 animated Disney movie. The movie follows the story of Wendy and her brothers being caught up in an adventure with Peter Pan, a character who often features prominently in their mother’s bedtime stories. Desiring not to grow up like Peter…

Episode 3 of CITADEL goes 10 years into the past where Mason and Nadia first worked together by stealing an enriched Ebola virus from the bad guys. It opens with an exciting, spectacular chase scene and gunfight. Later, Mason and Nadia become lovers. In the present day, Nadia takes Mason to a Citadel safe house where the two decide that their only …

SHOOTING STARS follows the early life of NBA star LeBron James and his four best friends, who become America’s best high school basketball team. Streaming on NBC’s Peacock outlet, the movie opens when LeBron, Lil Dru, Sian, Willie, and Romeo are just children. Lil Dru’s father, Dru Joyce, brings them together to play basketball. They play every day…

Ariel, a beautiful mermaid, wants to see what humans are like in LITTLE MERMAID. So, she swims up and sees a shipwreck. In the ship is a handsome prince, Prince Eric. Prince Eric is saving his dog and falls in the ocean. Ariel saves his life, but Eric is only remembers the sound of her singing. Ariel sells her voice to the evil Sea Witch to receive…

FAST X is a sequel to the FAST AND FURIOUS movie FAST FIVE. In FAST FIVE, Dom and his friends teamed up with a spy agency to bring down a Brazilian drug lord. In FAST X, the drug lord’s son hatches an elaborate revenge plot against Dom, his friends and family, to make them suffer for his father’s death. He lures Dom and his team to Rome, Italy, to …

RALLY ROAD RACERS is an animated fantasy adventure. Zhi is a small loris (mammal), living in the last village of his kind in China. He dreams of racing cars. A large toad named Archie Vainglorious is the current road rally champion. Archie owns the deed to Zhi’s village and wants to tear it down, including Zhi’s grandmother’s house. Zhi challenges …

HYPNOTIC is a science fiction thriller starring Ben Affleck. Affleck plays Danny Rourke, a Texas police detective who finds a clue to the possible kidnapper of his 7-year-old daughter, who went missing three years ago. Danny found the clue during a violent bank robbery that seems to have been manipulated by a mystery man. Aided by a woman with spec…

GHOSTED is a comical spy thriller on Apple TV Plus. Cole is a normal American man whose interests include history and farming. When he meets a beautiful girl named Sadie, their relationship goes past first base. After it appears that she ghosts him on social media, he follows her to London. Cole thinks he’s making a romantic gesture. However, he fi…

JUST JAKE is a romance movie on UPtv. As the movie opens, emerging country singer Jake is having a serious writer’s block. When his record label lets him go after he misses another deadline, his manager friend makes Jake return to their Colorado hometown for inspiration. Everyone welcomes him back, but his high school sweetheart, Amber, is reluctan…

CRATER is a new family, space adventure streaming on Disney Plus. After his widowed father dies, a young, now-orphaned boy named Caleb is promised a better life on the paradise planet Omega. However, Caleb learns he only has three days before a 75-year-long journey in cryosleep. With the help of his closest friends and a girl who recently arrived o…

Chapter 6 of THE WINGFEATHER SAGA on Angel Studios is the explosive conclusion to Season One. In the episode, the Igiby family take their last stand against their nemesis, Slarb, and his Fang army. The family retreats to Anklejelly Manor, a dilapidated mansion, but are attacked by Fang spies. Their forest friend, Peet, comes to the rescue. He reviv…

In Episodes 307 and 308 of STAR TREK: PICARD, the shapeshifting captain seizes control of the Titan. She threatens to kill the people on the bridge one at a time, unless Jack, Picard’s son, surrenders to her. Meanwhile, with Worf’s help, Riker and his wife escape their captors. Picard, Jack and Geordi are hiding in the bowels of the Titan. Their ho…

In Episodes 307 and 308 of STAR TREK: PICARD, the shapeshifting captain seizes control of the Titan. She threatens to kill the people on the bridge one at a time, unless Jack, Picard’s son, surrenders to her. Meanwhile, with Worf’s help, Riker and his wife escape their captors. Picard, Jack and Geordi are hiding in the bowels of the Titan. Their ho…

BIG GEORGE FOREMAN is an attention-grabbing sports drama, a biopic based on the life of world champion boxing star George Foreman. George fights his way out of poverty by becoming a gold medal boxer in the 1968 Olympics. He then wins the heavyweight championship by beating Joe Frasier in 1974. However, a year later, his ego takes a blow when Muhamm…

GUARDIANS OF THE GALAXY VOL. 3 tells an emotional tale about the Guardians risking their lives to save a friend. The crazed scientist who experimented created Rocket, the wise-cracking racoon character, wants him returned. One of the villain’s rogue colleagues comes to the Guardians’ headquarters and mortally wounds Rocket. The villain has planted …

SWEETWATER is the little-known story of basketball player Nat “Sweetwater” Clifton who became the first black player in the NBA. The movie starts with Jim Caviezel in a cameo as a sportswriter who gets in a cab and recognizes the older Sweetwater as his driver. He asks incredulously why Nat is driving a cab. Jump back to 1949, where Nat’s playing f…

THE WAY is an inspiring, captivating movie about the spiritual journey of a father who lost his son on a religious pilgrimage in Europe. Tom, an agnostic eye doctor, goes to pick up his son’s body in France. There, he learns about the religious pilgrimage his son was taking when he died suddenly. The Camino de Santiago is a spiritual journey starti…

GUY RITCHIE’S THE COVENANT follows the story of U.S. Army Sergeant John Kinley and his new Afghan interpreter, Ahmed. The Taliban ambush Kinley and kill all his men at a weapons cache. Ahmed and Kinley must evade the Taliban and flee into the brutal Afghan wilderness. Kinley is shot, but Ahmed summons what strength he has left to get Kinley home. A…

IT AIN’T OVER is a documentary about the life of famed New York Yankees catcher, Lawrence Peter “Yogi” Berra. Yogi was a larger-than-life presence to his teammates, family and all who knew him. The movie details his feats as a formidable major league player, his personal life, and his “Yogi-isms,” hilarious, nonsensical sayings for which he became …

ANXIOUS NATION is an important documentary about the anxiety that seems to be plaguing many young people today. The movie discusses the problem and offers solutions. The movie shows the hardships of growing up with anxiety, and how parents can help their child through it all. The movie warns viewers that feelings of anxiety sometimes can lead to de…

PATTERNS OF EVIDENCE: JOURNEY TO MOUNT SINAI II is a documentary where investigative filmmaker Timothy Mahoney examines three of six possible sites for Mount Sinai where God gave Moses and his followers the Ten Commandments. After rejecting three sites in the first movie, Mahoney and his crew visit the remaining three sites. Mahoney talks to archeo…

THE POPE’S EXORCIST gives the Vatican’s chief exorcist from 1992 to 2016 the Hollywood treatment. At 63, Father Gabriele Amorth has only been the apprentice of the Vatican’s chief exorcist for a year, since 1986. Although Father Amorth won’t take that position himself until 1992, he’s proven himself to be a wise, capable defender of the Faith again…

CHUPA is a delightful, animated fantasy on Netflix. It follows the adventures of a Mexican boy from Kansas, Alejandro, who meets a young Chupacabra on summer vacation in Mexico with his grandfather and his two cousins. Alejandro decides to try and return his new friend to its mother. However, a scientist doing research in the area, who seeks the cr…

POLITE SOCIETY is an action comedy from Britain about two sisters from a Pakistani Muslim family. Ria is a high school student who attends a martial arts class and longs to be a Hollywood stuntwoman. Her older sister, Lena, has quit her dream of being an artist. Later, Ria becomes upset when Lena starts going out with Salim, a handsome rich young d…

LOVE AGAIN is a romance about Mira, a children’s author in New York who witnesses the accidental death of her boyfriend, John. The two were growing very close, and John was about to propose. So, two years later, Mira’s still grieving and hiding out at her parents’ home outside the city. Mira’s sister convinces her to return to the city. An older fr…

Chapter 5 of THE WINGFEATHER SAGA is an animated fantasy television series streaming on Angel Studios. It centers on the Igiby children trying to break their mother and grandfather out of Fang prison. Their neighbors distract the guards for the children. However, the local Fang commander already knows about the prison break. He and his soldiers cap…

The final three installments of A SHOW ABOUT ANTHEM LIGHTS, an animated comedy on Pure Flix, take skeptical shots at the Christian music industry and church pastors. In Episode 118, the band goes on a cruise, where they take themselves too seriously. In the next episode, the band attends a Sunday morning worship service and asks the self-absorbed p…

In “The Mines of Mandalore,” the second episode of Season Three of THE MANDALORIAN on Disney Plus, Din Djarin and Grogu explore the ruins of Mandalore. Din must “baptize” himself in the “Living Waters” of the planet’s mines, or else risk being shunned forever by his former clan. Din Djarin and Grogu dive into the caverns, fend off some monsters, an…

CITADEL is a new spy thriller on Amazon Prime. In the first two episodes, a spy named Mason Kane and his former partner, Nadia, are two of the last living agents of Citadel, an independent spy agency working against an evil crime syndicate called Manticore. Run by eight of the world’s richest families, Manticore has found a hidden black case that h…

In Episode 305 and 306 of STAR TREK: PICARD, Star Fleet sends a woman to investigate Picard’s actions on the Titan. Picard could face a court martial. However, the woman is a friend. She warns that a cabal of shapeshifting creatures has infiltrated Star Fleet. They’re bent on revenge against Star Fleet and all “solid” creatures. Picard flees from S…

1917 is a powerful, patriotic, moral war movie set at the western front in France and Belgium during World War I. A British commander sends two soldiers, Blake and Schofield, across No Man’s Land through bombed-out areas to warn 1600 British troops on the front lines that they are heading into a German trap. Blake is chosen because his brother is a…

A FATHER’S HEART is a Christian documentary in a limited theatrical release from a Roman Catholic perspective. It highlights the miraculous works of Saint Joseph, Jesus Christ’s earthly father, and contains interviews with priests and other people who say Joseph has revived their faith and touched their lives miraculously. The movie spans across se…

THE SUPER MARIO BROS. MOVIE (2023) is a new movie based on the iconic Nintendo video game about brothers Mario and Luigi, two plumbers from Brooklyn, New York. After Mario and Luigi find a green pipe in the sewers, they are transported into a different universe. The brothers end up getting separated, but both find themselves wrapped up in an evil p…

DUNGEONS & DRAGONS: HONOR AMONG THIEVES is a wild fantasy with lots of action and adventure. A former thief named Edgin gathers a team together to save his daughter, Kira, who’s been kidnapped by a former colleague named Forge. With help from an evil sorceress, Forge has usurped a kingdom to become Lord of Nevermore. To make matters worse, Forge ha…