Rueben's Ramblings

The Paramount+ movie Love in Taipei will debut online on August 10.

Adapted from the best-selling YA romance novel Loveboat, Taipei by author Abigail Hing Wen, the movie will focus on Ever Wong (Ashley Liao from The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes), a young woman whose summer takes an unexpected turn when her parents surprise her with a trip to Taipei, Taiwan for a cultural immersion program. It’s not quite the educational program she envisions, but instead a summer free-for-all that locals and other students have dubbed “Loveboat.”

The experience lives up to its name when Ever finds herself caught between two love interests: Rick Woo (Ross Butler), a sports prodigy and Xavier Yeh (Nico Hiraga), a free-spirited artist and heir to a tech empire. Between these two love connections, Ever must also find the courage to defy her parents’ expectations and pursue her true passion of dancing.

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On August 5, the Hallmark Channel movie Making Waves will debut at 8 PM.

Music executive Amelia (Holland Roden) goes to a festival on the Outer Banks to beat out the competition for an elusive new band and discovers that the group is fronted by Will (Corey Cott), her childhood summer sweetheart.

Over the course of the week, as Amelia tries to convince Will that her company is the better choice for his musical vision, she realizes there might be a conflict of interest: her feelings for him.

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The Hallmark Channel movie Aloha Heart will debut at 8 PM on July 29.

Sara (Taylor Cole) is a conservationist, who joins her best friend in Hawaii to serve as her maid of honor. While staying in a boutique Hawaiian hotel, she meets the property’s new manager (Kanoa Goo) who is trying to make his family’s business more competitive. Though Manu initially resists Sara’s input on his hotel, they soon form a partnership and something more that enriches their shared dream of making the world a better place.

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The Hallmark Movies & Mysteries movie A Lifelong Love will debut on July 21 at 9 PM.

While trying to reunite her grandfather with his lost love, Annika (Andrea Brooks) teams up with college sweetheart Ryan (Patch May) to create a book about the experience, documenting different love stories along the way.

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On July 15, the Hallmark Channel holiday movie Take Me Back for Christmas will debut at 8 PM.

A Christmas wish gives Renee (Vanessa Lengies) the successful life she’d always dreamed of. This new reality is perfect, except for one thing: she is no longer married to her husband Aaron (Corey Sevier). Now, Renee must race against the clock to win Aaron back before Christmas Eve.

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On July 8, the Hallmark Channel Christmas in July movie A Royal Christmas Crush will debut at 8 PM.

Ava (Katie Cassidy) accepts the opportunity of a lifetime to work at the Royal Ice Hotel which leads her to a surprise whirlwind romance with the most important guest of all, the Royal Prince (Stephen Huszar) himself.

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On July 7, the Netflix movie The Out-Laws will debut online.

Owen Browning (Adam DeVine) is a young bank manager who’s about to be engaged to his fiancé Parker McDermott (Nina Dobrev). One day, the bank is held up by an infamous group of criminals known as the “Ghost Bandits.” The robbery occurs during his wedding week and certain indicators lead him to believe that the robbers might in fact be his future in-laws Billy (Pierce Brosnan) and Lily McDermott (Ellen Barkin), who just arrived in town. He gets proven right when the criminal Rehan (Poorna Jagannathan) captures Parker in exchange for the ransom of the money that the Ghost Bandits stole from her. Now Owen must work with Billy and Lily and break into another bank in order to rescue Parker.

The cast includes Michael Rooker, Julie Hagerty, Richard Kind and Lil Rel Howery.

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The Hallmark Channel movie Make Me a Match will debut on June 24 at 8 PM.

Vivi (Eva Bourne), an optimistic woman with a substandard romantic history, works at a data-driven matchmaking app. Once she discovers that the success rate for matches at her company is low, she hires Raina (Rekha Sharma), an Indian matchmaker, to provide advice on how to improve their numbers. As they embark on this matchmaking journey, Vivi meets Raina’s spontaneous son, Bhumesh (Rushi Kota), and questions whether finding love is something one must take control of or let naturally come to them.

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