Posted in Movies, Recommendations, Reminder, Television, Video on March 12, 2019| Leave a Comment »
On March 16, the Hallmark Channel movie Flip That Romance will debut at 8 PM.
Rival house flippers, Jules Briggs (Julie Gonzalo) and Lance Waddell (Tyler Hynes), renovate dual sides of a duplex and rekindle an old romance.
Here is a trailer for Flip That Romance.
Posted in Movies, Recommendations, Reminder, Television, Video on March 6, 2019| Leave a Comment »
The new movie Crossword Mysteries: A Puzzle to Die For will debut on Hallmark Movies & Mysteries on March 10 at 9 PM.
A crossword puzzle editor (Lacey Chabert) finds her life completely disrupted when several of the clues in her recent puzzles are linked to unsolved crimes, and she is pulled into the police investigation.
The cast includes Brennan Elliott and Barbara Nevin.
Here is a trailer for Crossword Mysteries: A Puzzle To Die For.
Posted in Movies, Recommendations, Reminder, Television, Video on March 5, 2019| Leave a Comment »
On March 9, the Hallmark Channel movie Love Under the Rainbow will debut at 8 PM.
Jack (David Haydn-Jones), a widower raising 10-year-old Sophie (Dakota Guppy), keeps running into Lucy (Jodie Sweetin), her teacher, and soon they’re smitten. But whenever their talk gets personal Jack backs off and Lucy fears he’ll break her heart. And it looks like he might, especially after Sophie runs into Jack’s arms sobbing after a field trip chasing rainbows.
Explaining that Sophie’s mom used to love rainbows, Jack tells Lucy he’s decided to accept a job in Miami. He can’t risk trying to replace Sophie’s mother, but hopefully he’ll realize you can’t get a rainbow without a little rain, and that true love can weather any storm.
Here is a trailer for Love Under the Rainbow.
Posted in Movies, Recommendations, Reminder, Television, Video on February 27, 2019| Leave a Comment »
The Hallmark Movies & Mysteries original movie Chronicles Mysteries: Vines That Bind will debut on March 3 at 9 PM.
The latest edition of Alex McPherson’s (Alison Sweeney) true crime podcast leads her and the Chronicle staff to nearby Macklin, where they investigate a death ruled as an accident by the local police. Before Alex can get to the bottom of what she feels was a murder, another member of the family is felled by a bullet. She and her colleagues soon amass a formidable roster of suspects, all of whom had the motive and opportunity to commit the crimes.
The film also stars Benjamin Ayres.
Here is a trailer for Chronicles Mysteries: Vines That Bind.
Posted in Movies, Recommendations, Reminder, Television, Video on February 26, 2019| Leave a Comment »
The Hallmark Channel original movie Just Add Romance will debut on March 2 at 8 PM.
Meeting in culinary school, Carly (Meghann Fahy) and Jason (Luke Macfarlane) develop chemistry while playfully vying to be top chef. Jason suddenly disappears, but they meet again three years later, on “Kitchen Showdown,” competing to win their own restaurant.
Caught on camera sharing heartfelt gazes, the smitten chefs are competitive yet still supportive of one another. But when they become finalists, emotions boil over and Carly is led to believe Jason’s copying her dish. Only one can win, but if their relationship winds up on the chopping block, they both will lose.
Here is a trailer for Just Add Romance.
Posted in Movies, News on February 25, 2019| Leave a Comment »
Based on information provided by the Box Office Mojo and some internet research, here are just some of the movies you can expect to see in the movie theatres in March:
Saint Judy
Opens: March 1
The film tells the story of Los Angeles immigration attorney Judy Wood (Michelle Monaghan), who single-handedly changed United States asylum law to include women as a protected class. Wood’s victory has saved the lives of tens of thousands of female immigrants around the world. The cast includes Common, Peter Krause, Mykelti Williamson, Aimee Garcia, Kevin Chapman, Gil Birmingham, Alfred Molina and Alfre Woodard.
Captain Marvel
Opens: March 8
Set in 1995, the film follows Carol Danvers (Brie Larson), a former U.S. Air Force fighter pilot, as she turns into one of the galaxy’s mightiest heroes and joins Starforce, an elite Kree military team, before returning home with questions about her past and identity when Earth is caught in the center of a galactic conflict between two alien worlds. The ensemble cast includes Samuel L. Jackson, Lee Pace, Ben Mendelsohn, Gemma Chan, Jude Law, Annette Bening, Djimon Hounsou and Clark Gregg.
Gloria Bell
Opens: March 8
A free-spirited divorcee spends her nights on the dance floor, joyfully letting loose at clubs around Los Angeles. She soon finds herself thrust into an unexpected new romance, filled with the joys of budding love and the complications of dating. The cast includes Julianna Moore, Sean Astin, Michael Cera, Alanna Ubach, Jeanne Tripplehorn, Holland Taylor, John Turturro, Rita Wilson and Brad Garrett.
Five Feet Apart
Opens: March 15
Seventeen-year-old Stella (Haley Lu Richardson) spends most of her time in the hospital as a cystic fibrosis patient. Her life is full of routines, boundaries and self-control — all of which get put to the test when she meets Will, an impossibly charming teen who has the same illness. There’s an instant flirtation, though restrictions dictate that they must maintain a safe distance between them. As their connection intensifies, so does the temptation to throw the rules out the window and embrace that attraction. The film also stars Cole Sprouse, Claire Forlani, Parminder Nagra, Moises Arias and Emily Baldoni.
The Aftermath
Opens: March 15
The film is set in postwar Germany in 1946, focusing on Rachael Morgan (Keira Knightley), who arrives in the ruins of Hamburg in the bitter winter, to be reunited with her husband Lewis (Jason Clarke), a colonel of the British Forces Germany charged with rebuilding the shattered city. But as they set off for their new home, Rachael is stunned to discover that Lewis has made an unexpected decision: They will be sharing the grand house with its previous owners, a German widower (Alexander Skarsgard) and his troubled daughter. In this charged atmosphere, enmity and grief give way to passion and betrayal.
The Mustang
Opens: March 15
A violent convict (Matthias Schoenaerts) is given the chance to participate in a rehabilitation therapy program centered on the training of wild mustangs. The cast includes Connie Britton, Bruce Dern and Josh Stewart.
Wonder Park
Opens: March 15
A young imaginative 10-year old girl named Cameron “June” (Brianna Denski) spent her childhood days constructing an amusement park filled with fantastical rides and inhabited by talking animals called Wonderland with her mother (Jennifer Garner) and her friends, but she lost her sense of imagination and wonder after her mother died and growing up, until she finds the real Wonderland in the woods. She needs to team up with the animals to stop the destruction of Wonderland by Chimpanzombies and bring it back to life. Other voices will be provided by Matthew Broderick, Kenan Thompson, Ken Jeong and Mila Kunis.
Dumbo
Opens: March 29
Circus owner Max Medici (Danny DeVito) enlists Holt Farrier (Colin Farrell) to care for a newborn elephant whose oversized ears make him a laughing stock in an already struggling circus. But when Holt’s children discover that Dumbo can fly, persuasive entrepreneur V.A. Vandevere (Michael Keaton) and an aerial artist named Colette Marchant (Eva Green) swoop in to make the peculiar pachyderm a star. The cast includes Alan Arkin.
Movies coming out in April will be posted at the end of March.
Posted in Movies, Recommendations, Reminder, Television, Video on February 20, 2019| Leave a Comment »
The Chronicle Mysteries: The Wrong Man will debut on Hallmark Movies & Mysteries will air on February 24 at 9 PM.
Podcaster Alex McPherson (Alison Sweeney) seeks the truth behind the tragic death of a young lawyer, while partner Drew (Benjamin Ayres) finds himself diving into the shady mishaps of a shipping company.
Posted in Movies, Recommendations, Reminder, Television, Video on February 19, 2019| Leave a Comment »
On February 23, the HBO original telefilm O.G. will debut at 10 PM.
Filmed in Indiana’s Pendleton Correctional Facility, an active maximum-security prison, the film follows Louis (Jeffrey Wright), once the head of a prominent prison gang, in the final weeks of his 24-year sentence. His impending release is upended when he takes new arrival Beecher (Theothus Carter), who is being courted by gang leadership, under his wing.
Coming to grips with the indelibility of his crime and the challenge of reentering society, Louis finds his freedom hanging in the balance as he struggles to save Beecher.
William Fichtner also stars.
Here is a trailer for O.G.:
Posted in Movies, Recommendations, Reminder, Television, Video on February 19, 2019| Leave a Comment »
The Hallmark Channel movie Love on the Menu will debut on February 23 at 8 PM.
When chef Hank (Kavan Smith) makes a deal with frozen food executive Maggie (Autumn Reeser) in order to save his restaurant, their unexpected attraction complicates matters, leaving Maggie conflicted: Does she choose her allegiance to her cut-throat boss or does she partner – both in work and in love – with Hank?
The cast includes Barbara Niven.
Here is a trailer for Love on the Menu.
Posted in Movies, Recommendations, Reminder, Television, Video on February 13, 2019| Leave a Comment »
February 17, the Hallmark Movies & Mysteries movie The Chronicle Mysteries: Recovered will debut at 9 PM.
Alex McPherson (Alison Sweeney) returns to the small town in Pennsylvania where she spent her summers as a girl to record the next episode of her true crime podcast, about the disappearance of a childhood friend 20 years prior.
However, after teaming up with the local newspaper editor (Benjamin Ayres), who reluctantly agrees to help her retrace the girl’s last steps, Alex not only uncovers the shocking truth behind the girl’s disappearance, but also a decades-old murder and its cover-up.
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