Rueben's Ramblings

The Hallmark Movies & Mysteries movie CrimeTime: Freefall will debut on February 23 at 9 PM.

Crime series actress Hadley Warner (Lyndie Greenwood) retires to a small town where she encounters her first real case. Using her TV crime knowledge, she teams up with Detective Shawn Caden (Luke Macfarlane) to solve the case.

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On February 18, the UPtv movie Romance in Hawaii will debut at 7 PM.

Leah, a successful but dissatisfied executive, discovers the missing passion from her life when she starts taking hula dance lessons from handsome local Ikaika.

The cast includes Kelley Jackle, Cedric Jonathan, Peter Porte and Carrie Schroeder.

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On February 17, the Hallmark Channel movie An American in Austen will debut at 8 PM.

Harriet, who thinks that no real man compares to Mr. Darcy, is transported into Pride & Prejudice and gets an unexpected chance to find out.

The movie stars Eliza Bennett and Nicholas Bishop.

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On February 14, the Netflix rom-com Players will debut online.

New York sportswriter Mack (Gina Rodriguez) is about to make the most unlikely catch of all: feelings. Alongside her best friend, Adam (Damon Wayans Jr.), Mack has spent years running trademark hookup plays that keep their friend group drowning in one-night stands. All of that changes when she meets Nick (Tom Ellis), and soon she’ll have to make a game-time decision between playing the game and love.

The cast includes Joel Courtney, Augustus Prew and Marin Hinkle.

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The UPtv movie Love By Design will debut on February 11 at 7 PM.

Broken-hearted, out-of-work Brooke Yeardley makes her 30th birthday wish on the vision board she made as a hopeful teen. Miraculously her wishes start coming true – from launching her own design business to meeting the man on her vision board – but while life has a way of working out, Brooke learns that it doesn’t always work out the way that you expect.

The cast includes Jackie Moore, Joey Lawrence and Jack Pearson.

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On February 10, the Hallmark Channel movie Love & Jane will debut at 8 PM.

Lilly (Alison Sweeney), a hopeless romantic and literary enthusiast, is surprised when her wish to talk to her favorite author comes true and Jane Austen herself appears in her life.

Benjamin Ayres also stars.

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The Amazon Prime movie Upgraded will debut online on February 9.

The movie follows Ana (Camila Mendes from Riverdale), an aspiring art intern who is invited on a last-minute work trip to London by her super boss (Marisa Tomei), meeting the handsome and wealthy William (Archie Renaux from Shadow and Bone) on the plane.

The film also stars Lena Olin, Anthony Head, Thomas Kretschmann and Fola Evans-Akingbola.

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The Hallmark Channel movie Paging Mr. Darcy will debut on February 3 at 8 PM.

When an overly serious scholar (Mallory Jansen) attends a Jane Austen annual conference, she strikes a deal with the man playing Mr. Darcy (Will Kemp) and finds her perspective, and her heart, changed.

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The animated feature film Orion and the Dark will debut online on Netflix on February 2.

Follows Orion (voiced by Jacob Tremblay), a young boy who is afraid of heights, pets, and rendered nearly catatonic by the worst of all perils: the dark. The Dark (Paul Walter Hauser) takes Orion on a nighttime trip to prove to the youngster that the only thing to fear is fear itself.

The other voices will be provided by Carla Gugino, Angela Bassett, Natasia Demetriou, Werner Herzog, Colin Hanks, Ike Barinholtz, Nat Faxon and Golda Rosheuvel.

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On February 2, the Hallmark Movies & Mysteries movie Gilded Newport Mysteries: Murder at the Breakers will debut at 9 PM.

A society page writer (Ali Skovbye from Firefly Lane) in 1895 Rhode Island witnesses a murder while attending a ball at the Vanderbilt mansion and is drawn into the investigation when her brother is arrested.

The film also stars Danny Griffin (Fate: The Winx Saga).

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