In a small town in central Oregon, Frank Weaver runs a meth lab out of an abandoned mine. While his young son Aiden waits outside the mine in his truck, Frank and an accomplice are attacked by an unseen creature. Investigating strange noises, Aiden is also attacked by the creature. Frank and Aiden survive their encounter with the creature and return home, where their condition quickly worsens. Frank sets up a locked room and demands that no matter what, Aiden's older brother Lucas keeps them locked inside.
Thursday, December 2, 2021
Snake Eyes (1998)
Ricky Santoro is a flamboyant and corrupt Atlantic City cop with a dream: become so well connected that he can become mayor. In lieu of that, he'll settle for keeping his comfortable lifestyle. On the night of the heavyweight boxing championship, Rick becomes mixed up in the assassination of the Secretary of Defense, an assassination involving his best friend. Becoming the investigating officer in the case, Rick soon uncovers a conspiracy to kill the Secretary and a mysterious woman in white. The conspiracy was shocking, but not half as shocking as the identity of its mastermind.
The Unforgivable (2021)
Released from prison after serving a sentence for a violent crime, Ruth Slater (Bullock) re-enters a society that refuses to forgive her past. Facing severe judgment from the place she once called home, her only hope for redemption is finding the estranged younger sister she was forced to leave behind.
Encounter (2021)
A Marine Corps veteran suffering from PTSD takes his kids from California to Groom Lake, Nevada. He tells his children that alien parasites have landed on Earth to take over the planet. As their journey takes them in increasingly dangerous directions, the boys will need to leave their childhoods behind.
The Rescue (2021)
The Rescue chronicles the enthralling, against-all-odds story that transfixed the world in 2018: the daring rescue of twelve boys and their coach from deep inside a flooded cave in Northern Thailand. Using a wealth of never-before-seen material and exclusive interviews, E. Chai Vasarhelyi and Jimmy Chin keep viewers on the edge of their seats as they bring alive one of the most perilous and extraordinary rescues in modern times, shining a light on the high-risk world of cave diving, the astounding courage and compassion of the rescuers, and the shared humanity of the international community that united to save the boys.
Ron's Gone Wrong (2021)
Twentieth Century Studios and Locksmith Animation's "Ron's Gone Wrong" is the story of Barney, a socially awkward middle-schooler and Ron, his new walking, talking, digitally-connected device, which is supposed to be his 'Best Friend out of the Box.' Ron's hilarious malfunctions set against the backdrop of the social media age, launch them into an action-packed journey in which boy and robot come to terms with the wonderful messiness of true friendship.
Sing 2 (2021)
With his theatrical company a local success, Buster Moon is dreaming of bigger things. Unfortunately, when a talent scout dismisses their work as inadequate for the big time, Buster is driven to prove her wrong. With that goal in mind, Buster inspires his players to gamble everything to sneak into a talent audition in Redshore City for the demanding entertainment mogul Jimmy Crystal. Against the odds, they catch his interest with some frantic creative improvisation and even more desperate lies like personally knowing the reclusive rock star, Clay Calloway, who has not been seen in 15 years. Now faced with a tight production window with only a vague story idea and dire consequences for failure, Buster and his friends must all stretch their talents put on a show against all odds. In that struggle, the gang's challenges seem insurmountable, but each of them finds new inspirations and friends where they least expect them to pursue an artistic dream worthy of them.
The Power of the Dog (2021)
Severe, pale-eyed, handsome, Phil Burbank is brutally beguiling. All of Phil's romance, power and fragility is trapped in the past and in the land: He can castrate a bull calf with two swift slashes of his knife; he swims naked in the river, smearing his body with mud. He is a cowboy as raw as his hides. The year is 1925. The Burbank brothers are wealthy ranchers in Montana. At the Red Mill restaurant on their way to market, the brothers meet Rose, the widowed proprietress, and her impressionable son Peter. Phil behaves so cruelly he drives them both to tears, revelling in their hurt and rousing his fellow cowhands to laughter - all except his brother George, who comforts Rose then returns to marry her. As Phil swings between fury and cunning, his taunting of Rose takes an eerie form - he hovers at the edges of her vision, whistling a tune she can no longer play. His mockery of her son is more overt, amplified by the cheering of Phil's cowhand disciples. Then Phil appears to take the boy under his wing. Is this latest gesture a softening that leaves Phil exposed, or a plot twisting further into menace?
The Last Duel (2021)
Based on the true story of France's last trial by combat in the Middle Ages. Knight Jean de Carrouges challenges his former friend Jacques Le Gris to a duel after Jean's wife Marguerite accuses Le Gris of rape. Told in multiple "Rashomon-style" points of view.
Trolls Holiday in Harmony (2021)
Queen Poppy plans the first annual Trolls Kingdom Secret Holiday Gift Swap, but, things don't go as expected.
Pups Alone (2021)
Robert, a talented inventor, and his daughter move to a new neighborhood right before Christmas. But, upon arriving, Robert finds himself targeted by his conniving next-door neighbor Victor and his aggressive dogs. After discovering Robert's latest invention, Victor hires two inept thieves to steal it, unaware that the neighborhood dogs have joined forces to stop the would-be robbers.
Snowkissed (2021)
A travel-averse journalist chases her dream assignment where she soon finds herself mentoring a handsome B&B owner who wants to be a tour guide.
'Twas the Fight Before Christmas (2021)
Follows a Christmas-loving man who gets obsessed with bringing Christmas cheer to all, and causes a fight when the homeowners' association informs him that the event he planned violates the rules of the neighborhood.
The Holiday Fix Up (2021)
When Sam, an interior designer, returns home during the holidays to help renovate the Bell Harbor Inn, she gets paired with Coop as her contractor. The only problem - he's the guy who broke her heart and she's the one who got away.
Wednesday, December 1, 2021
A Fiancé for Christmas (2021)
Perpetually single Sawyer makes a fake wedding registry to burn off some Christmas loneliness. Her friends find it and think she's become secretly engaged. Too embarrassed to tell the truth, she instead finds a "fiancé" for the holidays.
Mistletoe in Montana (2021)
Merry owns the ranch and has been unlucky in love, but that's about to change when a single father, Mark and his two kids book the ranch for Christmas week, the holiday spirit is everywhere, and love is in the air.
Ghosts of Christmas Past (2021)
Ellie is told by a fortune teller that she must resolve her past and make amends with all of those she ghosted before Christmas and discovers love in the process.
Falling in Love at Christmas (2021)
Miranda and Paul, two business rivals who playfully despise each other, work together on a holiday gift-giving app, and unexpected feelings develop for one another.
Holiday in Santa Fe (2021)
Tony runs a Christmas shop with a Mexican twist in Santa Fe. together with his sister and father. Now a representative from the big company Warm Wishes, Belinda, is on her way to talk about buying their business. Tony is prepared to listen to what they can offer but his sister is more negative. Belinda arrives from Chicago and has the mission to buy the company before new years. Tony wants to show her the soul of their business to try and preserve their mothers legacy even after the deal. He engages Belinda in the Christmas celebrations and she starts to get a new take on the deal but also a new interest in Tony.
Blending Christmas (2021)
The holiday season is in full swing when Emma learns that the resort where she used to spend Christmases with her family is being redeveloped.
A Godwink Christmas: Miracle of Love (2021)
Joy Fickett and Eric Fellman will discover the term Godwink - what may seem like a coincidence really being the cosmos' way of directing life - from someone soon to enter their lives, they having to decide how to interpret and act upon these signs if at all. In the approach to Christmas, they are both at a crossroads in life. Joy has returned home to Columbus having graduated earlier than expected with a Masters degree in Nursing. While there is pressure at least to be at home for Christmas and eventually to marry Danny, her boyfriend of five years, she is uncertain about what her future holds, she currently thinking about working overseas for Nurses International, somewhat like her now deceased mother did before her, which would be somewhat incongruous to the plans Danny has mapped out for them. Much to especially his mother's chagrin, Eric, in Minneapolis, is trying to navigate a career change, from one in the Ministry for which he was told he was not well suited, to a job as a news writer, he only having experience at an entry job level. Having attended seminars for the program in their respective hometowns, they both apply and are accepted for two week fellowships for Community Cares' "Advent in Oshkosh" program, that program, for two weeks before Christmas, to do work in Oshkosh in their respective fields - Joy to work in the community health clinic, Eric to write for the organization's newsletter about the Oshkosh program - while concurrently doing general work for a family in need, in this case the Romeros who lost everything in a house fire, the program which has built them a new house which they hope to be ready to move in for Christmas. As Joy and Eric progress through the program, they both get a clearer view of what exactly they want for their professional futures and how to achieve it, while it meshing with what is happening in their personal lives, namely that they are falling in love with each other. They have to figure out if these Godwinks are directing them to this joint life, or if they will revert to the pressure they've faced not only to return home by Christmas for good, but for Eric to find work more closely related to pure "service", and for Joy to marry Danny.
Toying with the Holidays (2021)
Up for a promotion, Chicago-based designer, divorcee Danielle Prescott, is a workaholic in trying to eke out a better life for her adolescent son, Paul Prescott. For the first time in years, they are returning to her hometown of Holly Pines for Christmas - she regardless taking work with her - as in the intervening year her father Walter Prescott passed away, she not having had the opportunity to say her goodbyes to him last Christmas. As such, Danielle wants to hand down their family's Holly Pines Christmas traditions to Paul, including taking him to the town's Christmas Festival largely organized by her mother, Kate Prescott. Danielle is dismayed not only to learn that they will have do major fundraising just to hold Festival, but that what what Danielle considers its centerpiece, the miniature train ride, called the North Pole Express for which train enthusiast Walter always acted as conductor, long ceased to operate, no one even knowing what happened to the train itself. In discovering her father's electric toy trains which she wants to have operational for Christmas for Paul, Danielle reconnects with her high school acquaintance, Kevin Vaughn, the owner/operator of the town's hobby shop, he an all 'round fix-it guy. In connecting, they decide to try and locate the North Pole Express and if they can find it if it can be resurrected for the Festival. While they do locate the equipment, it will take what Kevin considers a Christmas miracle for it to be up and running for the Festival, especially as no one makes parts for it anymore. In the process, Danielle and Kevin start to fall for each other. Their path to a relationship faces many hurdles, not only of the outcome of the North Pole Express, but also Danielle's life in Chicago in this possible promotion, and Kevin's ex-girlfriend, Jackie, who operates the florist shop next to Kevin's shop, making it clear individually to both Kevin and Danielle that she wants to get back together with him.
Last Train to Christmas (2021)
Tony Towers is a local celebrity, a successful nightclub manager and he is engaged to a younger woman, Sue. Things get a little strange when he embarks upon the 3:17 to Nottingham for a Christmas family reunion.
A Christmas Number One (2021)
A young woman desperately wants her uncle to find love and for his song to hit the number one spot by Christmas day.
Christmas Takes Flight (2021)
A holiday battle of wills between pilot Jenny Beckett and Matt Hansen, a number-crunching CEO who purchases Jenny's family-owned, regional airline. Matt's cost-cutting initiatives threaten Christmas when he cancels the airline's annual holiday charitable benefit for underserved children. Determined to show Matt that the sweetest things in life are worth any price, Jenny rallies the community to help save the event and unexpectedly finds herself falling for the magnate in the process.
Silent Night (2021)
Nell, Simon and their son Art host a yearly Christmas dinner at their country estate for their former school friends and their spouses. It is gradually revealed that there is an imminent environmental catastrophe and that this dinner will be their last night alive.
8-Bit Christmas (2021)
Jake Doyle (Neil Patrick Harris) has come home for Christmas. He tells his daughter the story of how he got a Nintendo Entertainment System on Christmas Day in 1988 and his sister got a "real" Cabbage Patch doll. Telling him that video games are bad for kids will not stop young Jake and his friends. How far will they go?
A Boy Called Christmas (2021)
An ordinary young boy called Nikolas sets out on an extraordinary adventure into the snowy north in search of his father who is on a quest to discover the fabled village of the elves, Elfhelm. Taking with him a headstrong reindeer called Blitzen and a loyal pet mouse, Nikolas soon meets his destiny in this magical, comic and endearing story that proves nothing is impossible.
Home Sweet Home Alone (2021)
Max Mercer, a mischievous and resourceful young boy, has been left behind while his family is in Japan for the holidays. So when a married couple attempting to retrieve a priceless heirloom sets their sights on the Mercer family's home, it is up to Max to protect it from the trespassers, and he will do whatever it takes to keep them out. The reboot promises hilarious hijinks of epic proportions, and despite the absolute chaos, Max eventually comes to realize that there really is no place like home sweet home.
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