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It's Festive Friday and todays movie is a fresh take on a Christmas classic!

ABOUT CHRISTMAS KARMA

A hard-nosed businessman, Mr. Sood, is forced to confront his past, present, and future over one fateful Christmas Eve - guided by three unforgettable spirits - on a journey toward compassion and redemption.

AIR DATE & NETWORK FOR CHRISTMAS KARMA

November 14, 2025 | Theatrical Release 

CAST & CREW OF CHRISTMAS KARMA

Director: Gurinder Chadha

Writers: Gurinder Chadha, Charles Dickens

Producers: Gurinder Chadha, Amory Leader, Celine Rattray

Cast:

Kunal Nayyar as Eshaan Sood

Leo Suter as Bob Cratchit

Boy George as Ghost of Christmas Future

Billy Porter as Ghost of Christmas Present

Eva Longoria as Ghost of Christmas Past

BRAN'S CHRISTMAS KARMA SYNOPSIS

It's Christmas Eve and Scrooge is not thrilled. His employees are busy throwing a Christmas party. And this is when we find out this is a musical. Honestly, had no idea. Scrooge fires everyone except his accountant Bob Cratchit. He reluctantly gives Bob an advance on next month's pay so he can buy presents for his kids.

Scrooge hates Christmas. When he gets home, he thinks he sees something on the door, but it's nothing. Except when he goes to go to sleep, he hears a loud bang on the door. It's the ghost of his old business partner, Jacob Marley. Marley warns Scrooge that he better change his ways OR ELSE! To help him, he will be visited by three spirits throughout the night.

Scrooge is like whatever and falls asleep. He is woken up by the ghost of Christmas past. It's Eva Longoria, DUH! She projects images of where he grew up in Africa with his best friend Akiiki. We see him and his family learn the news that all Asians must leave the country within 90 days. Scrooge is forced to watch his father die and other bad stuff. But it's not all bad. We see him at his first job, falling in love, proposing. But her parents don't believe he will be able to financially support their daughter. So Scrooge is like just wait and see. I'll show you!

Scrooge starts a business and refuses to help his first boss, Mr. Fezziwig, when he asked him to help him.

He shows up a year later, shows that he has money to her parents but she isn't interested because she learned about how he treated Fezziwig. She shows him what happened to her but he's not interested. He insists that he regrets nothing!

It's time for the ghost of Christmas present! He's fun. He's funky. He's Billy Porter. He shows him the Cratchit house on Christmas who is discussing Scrooge. Bob says he's just sick. Something is broken inside of him. Then he sees his nephew at a Christmas party, mocking Scrooge, and dancing big.

Suddenly, the ghost of Christmas future. Obviously, it's Boy George. And he is joined by Billy Porter for a duet while Eva Longoria stands there awkwardly. He discovers his death, but more importantly the death of Tiny Tim. He promises he will change.

He wakes up and it's Christmas. HE DIDN'T MISS IT! He goes to give money to everyone. And they all meet up to celebrate at the Christmas carnival.

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Jacks joins us this week to begin our journey into Hope Valley: 1874.

ABOUT: HOPE VALLEY: 1874 (SEASON 1 EPISODE 4)

Rebecca applies her medical knowledge when Nash breaks his leg.

AIR DATE & NETWORK FOR: HOPE VALLEY: 1874 (SEASON 1 EPISODE 4)

April 9, 2026 | Hallmark Channel

CAST & CREW OF: HOPE VALLEY: 1874 (SEASON 1 EPISODE 4)

Bethany Joy Lenz as Rebecca Clarke

Benjamin Ayres as Tom Moore

BRAN’S HOPE VALLEY: 1874 (SEASON 1 EPISODE 4) SYNOPSIS

The prospectors are trying for gold. Some are lucky. Others like ol' Lars Yost…not so much.

Tom's crew is out there when a rattlesnake appears and causes a horse to freak out.

Rebecca brings Sarah over to Peggy's house to play. When they get there, Tom's there cutting some wood. The workers come flying up because Nash fell off the horse in the snake scare. His leg is badly broken. If only there was someone who had some medical experience.

Alexander & Olivia have some flirty flirty fun time.

While Lars is working in the boarding house, some of the upstairs caves in. Bad news.

Rebecca agrees to try to help the leg situation, trying to remember how her doctor husband used to handle stuff like this.

Alexander is feeling a bit bored with the lack of action, so when an ol' buddy shows up and asks him to help find this outlaw on the run, he jumps at the opportunity.

After fixing the leg and making the cast, Rebecca agrees to go back to Tom's place for dinner, just the two of them. He opens up about how he was once engaged to a city girl. It didn't end well.

She tells him about the roof. And he's like we all have our issues - I gotta plow the field. She's like that's easy compared to my roof. So they hatch a deal - Sarah will plow his field and he'll get her the wood she needs. When she tells Hattie about the deal she's like….good luck out there.

The next day, Rebecca gets out there. Turns out, it's hard.

Alexander and his buddy are out in the woods and come across a trip wire. Someone is out to get 'em!

The kids are trying to help with the farm chores with Nash being out but it's not going great. A goat gets loose and goes nuts.

Alexander helps catch the bad guy. He absolutely loves it.

Rebecca works tirelessly all day and into the evening to the point of tears. Tom comes and tells her that she wins and that he'll provide the wood.

He brings it the next day and Alexander comes out to ask if he can be her first boarder when she opens. Tom asks if she's ok with that and she says she'll have to be.

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We're back with some more Gilmore Girls! Join us in this journey on social media - @gilmorethemerrierpod.

ABOUT: GILMORE GIRLS (SEASON 1 EPISODE 21)

Lorelai and Max's relationship gets more serious. Luke's girlfriend Rachel returns. Meanwhile, Rory tries to win Dean back.

AIR DATE & NETWORK FOR: GILMORE GIRLS (SEASON 1 EPISODE 21)

May 10, 2001 | The WB

CAST & CREW OF: GILMORE GIRLS (SEASON 1 EPISODE 21)

Lauren Graham as Lorelai Gilmore

Alexis Bledel as Rory Gilmore

BRAN’S GILMORE GIRLS (SEASON 1 EPISODE 21) SYNOPSIS

The episode kicks off with Luke coming over to fix Lorelai's railing...at 6:30a. She's not thrilled. Rory's not thrilled. THE DISRESPECT!

Rory finds the Dean box in the closet. Lorelai explains why she kept it and she thanks her, takes the box into her room to look through all the stuff. Later, when hanging out with Lane, she decides to go into the market to talk to Dean. When she walks in, she's shocked to find out that Dean isn't there. He should be there!

At school, Tristan asks Rory out on a date to a concert. She says we can't date. Womp womp.

Rachel asks Lorelai if she knows where Luke is. He's not really been around. Lorelai goes to talk to Luke and he's like I'm freaking out man. She's always around. I'm a loner. Uh oh.

Rory goes to Dean's house to go see if he's there. His little sister opens the door and Rory makes her cry.

It's time for family date night with Max Medina and it's a big one - they take her to a town hall meeting. Serious stuff is on the docket - like why there's more than 1 town troubadour. Rory stands up and says that he should be able to sing his songs because it's how you express your feelings!

Paris gets mad at Rory because she heard from Tristan that Rory is going to a concert.

Rachel breaks up with Luke because she can tell that he has feelings for Lorelai. He's like I don't know what you're talking about but then promptly goes to talk to Lorelai, but Max is there. This turns into a whole thing. After Luke leaves, they argue which leads to Max proposing.

Meanwhile, at Chilton, Tristan tries to convince Rory to go to the concert by taking her books and refusing to give them back until she says yes. Dean shows up and sees him holding the books and assumes they're a thing. Rory convinces him that they're nothing by telling him that she loves him! And they kiss BIG ONESSSS!

The next day at work, Lorelai walks in to 1000 daisies. She calls Max and he says I want to marry you. Think about it.

Episode ends with Rory and Lorelai running to each other and jumping and screaming.

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It's Tuesday which means there's a new Hallmark movie to review!

ABOUT A LITTLE PARK MUSIC

When a piano appears in the park gazebo, interfering with important work, city manager Allie joins forces with rookie cop Ryan to remove it, only to find both music and love are hard to resist.

AIR DATE & NETWORK FOR A LITTLE PARK MUSIC

April 11, 2026 | Hallmark

CAST & CREW OF A LITTLE PARK MUSIC

Director: Peter Benson

Cast:

Laci J Mailey as Allie

Beau Mirchoff as Ryan

Everett Andres

BRAN'S MOVIE SYNOPSIS

Allie is a city manager who talks to people constantly while she walks. The park is about to be demolished. We then meet Officer Ryan Pruett. He's new in town and is insanely detailed. So detailed that he was transferred from traffic because he took too long with the details of the tickets.

He gives Allie a jaywalking ticket because rules are rules. She can't believe it.

While walking to the office, she sees a piano in the gazebo. It's literally never been there before.

So she goes to the police but unfortunately for her, Ryan is on the case. He insists on doing an investigation which gives no answers but that's enough for him to approve having the piano moved.

Much to her surprise, the piano is back the next day. But since it's a different one, they gotta reopen the case. They investigate some other people that may be interested but no hits. Let's move that piano!

To make sure another piano doesn't show up, they decide to spend the night together in his truck doing a little stake out! They have a great night together, getting to know each other more, and ultimately falling asleep. When they wake up, there's a piano. Wtf!

She notices how much people love the piano so she talks to the mayor but hands are tied. There's grant money attached to demolishing the gazebo and putting in a fountain.

He is up for a job in Seattle and does an interview and is now able to talk about how much he loves community because of Allie.

They figure out who put the pianos there - a woman who got married at the gazebo and didn't wanna see it torn down.

But this is life sometimes. It's almost demolition time but another piano shows up. Who is this! The town is pumped!

The mayor finally realizes maybe the piano is good for the town. Allie tries to figure out a way to make this work.

And she does. Change what the town square is. The gazebo and piano are now just a park. A little park music.

He shows up and implies he put the piano there and also he's staying. They kiss.

Fast forward 3 months and the gazebo is still crushing it.

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It's Marvel Monday and the Avengers are torn apart!

ABOUT CAPTAIN AMERICA: CIVIL WAR

Political involvement in the Avengers' affairs causes a rift between Captain America and Iron Man.

AIR DATE & NETWORK FOR CAPTAIN AMERICA: CIVIL WAR

May 6, 2016 | Theatrical Release

CAST & CREW OF CAPTAIN AMERICA: CIVIL WAR

Directors: Anthony Russo, Joe Russo

Writers: Christopher Markus, Stephen McFeely, Joe Simon

Producers: Kevin Feige, Victoria Alonso, Louis D'Esposito

Cast:

Chris Evans as Steve Rogers/Captain America

Robert Downey Jr. as Tony Stark/Iron Man

Scarlett Johansson as Natasha Romanoff/Black Widow

Sebastian Stan as Bucky Barnes/Winter Soldier

Anthony Mackie as Sam Wilson/Falcon

Don Cheadle as Lieutenant James Rhodes/War Machine

Jeremy Renner as Clint Barton/Hawkeye

Chadwick Boseman as T'Challa/Black Panther

Paul Bettany as Vision

Elizabeth Olsen as Wanda Maximoff/Scarlet Witch

Paul Rudd as Scott Lang/Ant-Man

Tom Holland as Peter Parker/Spider-Man

Daniel Brühl as Zemo

BRAN'S CAPTAIN AMERICA: CIVIL WAR SYNOPSIS

It’s 1991 and Bucky Barnes is out here being brainwashed and doing bad stuff, snagging some super solder serum. 

Cut to the present and the Avengers are doing an Avengers thing in Lagos. You know the avengers: Captain America , black widow , falcon, and Wanda. The classics. It does not go well. 

After another bad mission,  The UN comes in and says they want to put the Avengers under government control with something called the Sokovia Accords.. Tony who shows up to this meeting, feeling guilty about creating Ultron, is like “yeah maybe we should have supervision.” Steve, meanwhile, is like “I actually trust myself more than literally any government on earth.” Uh oh, I smell a civil war! 

We see a guy named Zemo kill Bucky’s old Hydra handler and steal the magic words book that turns Bucky into a murder robot. 

Meanwhile, at the big UN meeting, a bomb goes off and kills the king of Wakanda. Security footage makes it look like Bucky did it. The kings son, T’Challa, is very much on the case. 

Steve decides he’s gonna go get Bucky himself despite the fact that he could get arrested in the process. He and Sam track him down and try to talk to him, where things immediately turn into a whole mess. T’Challa shows up to kill Bucky, and it leads to a massive chase which ends in everyone getting arrested because you can’t just do whatever you want anymore. 

They bring in a psychiatrist to evaluate Bucky but it’s actually Zemo. Bucky goes nuts but Zemo escapes. 

Steve is able to save Bucky from the water and  Bucky comes back to himself. He explains that Zemo framed him and is heading to Siberia, where Hydra supposedly has a bunch more Winter Soldiers ready to rock n roll. 

Tony & Natasha decide they need to form a little group to stop Steve & Bucky, including newbies Black Panther and Tony’s new pet project, Spider-Man. 

Steve knows he’s gonna need help of his own, so he a crew consisting of some other avengers + ant man. 

So naturally, everyone meets at an airport in Germany. Big fight, big fun. Things stop being fun and Natasha helps Steve and Bucky escape. the rest of Steve’s crew gets tossed into underwater super prison jail 

Tony eventually realizes Bucky was framed and finds Steve and Bucky in Siberia to call a temporary truce. But then Zemo reveals the footage from 1991 showing that Bucky murdered Tony’s parents . And Steve knew. Ohhhhhhh SNAP. 

Tony takes that information about as well as you’d expect. Tony fights Steve and Bucky, Bucky loses his robot arm, Steve fights Tony hard an departs with Bucky, leaving his shield behind, and Zemo is like mission accomplished. But then T’Challa shows up and arrests him. 

Steve then breaks everyone out of the underwater prison,  and Bucky heads to Wakanda to be frozen until someone can deprogram his murder brain.

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