Rueben's Ramblings

On January 8, the Hallmark Movies & Mysteries movie Family History Mysteries: Buried Past will debut at 7 PM.

Genealogist Sophie McClaren (Janel Parrish) is an expert at bringing families together. When her close friend Jonathan (Niall Matter) urgently needs to find a bone marrow donor, the case becomes personal.

Here is a trailer for Family History Mysteries: Buried Past:

The Hallmark Channel movie The Wedding Veil Expectations will debut on January 7 at 8 PM.

Avery and Peter (Lacey Chabert and Kevin McGarry) try to keep the romance alive while renovating an old house and juggling work, but everything takes on a new perspective when Avery has a surprise for Peter.

Autumn Reeser and Alison Sweeney reprise their roles from the original trilogy.

Here is a trailer for The Wedding Veil Expectations:

The new Lifetime movie Reba McEntire’s The Hammer will debut on January 7 at 8 PM.

The film follows Kim Wheeler (Reba McEntire), an outspoken, firecracker lawyer who is appointed Judge of the 5th District of Nevada and is one of the few traveling judges left in America. After the reigning judge passes away under suspicious circumstances, Kim finds herself covering a circuit that stretches between Las Vegas and Reno – a rugged, often desolate area where anything and everything can happen.

With gavel in hand, she lays down the law with a no-nonsense brand of justice that quickly earns her the nickname “The Hammer.” As the investigation of the former judge’s death heats up, Kim’s sister Kris (Melissa Peterman), who runs the local brothel, suddenly becomes the prime suspect, and Kim must work even harder to make certain the appropriate justice is served.

Here is a trailer for Reba McEntire’s The Hammer:

On January 7, the Great American Family movie A Royal in Paradise will debut at 8 PM.

Olivia (Rhiannon Fish), struggling with writer’s block after a break-up, takes a tropical holiday in hope of some inspiration and meets Prince Alexander (Mitchell Bourke), who needs some distance from his duty to marry royalty.

Here is a trailer for A Royal in Paradise:

The box office movie The Pale Blue Eye will debut online on Netflix on January 6.

A world-weary detective (Christian Bale) is hired to investigate the murder of a West Point cadet. Stymied by the cadets’ code of silence, he enlists one of their own to help unravel the case – a young man the world would come to know as Edgar Allan Poe (Harry Melling).

The cast includes Gillian Anderson, Lucy Boynton, Robert Duvall, Toby Jones, Timothy Spall and Charlotte Gainsbourg.

Here is a trailer for The Pale Blue Eye:

On January 6, the AMC+ movie Vesper will debut online.

Set after the collapse of the Earth’s ecosystem, the sci-fi thriller follows Vesper (Raffiella Chapman), a headstrong 13-year-old girl who uses her survival skills to subsist in the remnants of a strange and dangerous world with her ailing father, Darius (Richard Brake). When Vesper finds a mysterious woman, Camellia (Rosy McEwen), alone and disoriented after an aerial crash, she agrees to help find her missing companion in exchange for safe passage to the Citadel – the dark central hub where oligarchs live in comfort thanks to state-of-the-art biotechnology.

Here is a trailer for Vesper: