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It's Marvel Monday and it's finally time to watch the first Avengers movie!

ABOUT THE AVENGERS

Earth's mightiest heroes must come together and learn to fight as a team if they are going to stop the mischievous Loki and his alien army from enslaving humanity.

AIR DATE & NETWORK FOR THE AVENGERS

May 4, 2012 | Theatrical Release

CAST & CREW OF THE AVENGERS

Robert Downey Jr. as Tony Stark/Iron Man

Chris Evans as Steve Rogers/Captain America

Scarlett Johansson as Natasha Romanoff/Black Widow

Mark Ruffalo as Bruce Banner/The Hulk

Chris Hemsworth as Thor

Jeremy Renner as Clint Barton/Hawkeye

Tom Hiddleston as Loki

BRAN'S MOVIE SYNOPSIS

SHIELD is freaking out because they got an energy reading from the Tesseract. They have no idea why, so they're trying to get everyone out. Nick Fury comes in to talk to the scientist and catch up with Clint Barton, aka Hawk Eye, who he's stationed in the corner of the factory just to keep an eye on things.

Suddenly, a laser shoots out and opens up a portal. Loki comes walking out. They tell him to stop and he starts shooting stuff. He pulls Clint under a spell to help him steal the Tesseract.

Nick Fury decides it's time for operation Avengers. So he calls Agent Natasha Romanoff to travel to recruit Dr. Bruce Banner. No one knows gamma radiation like Bruce and that's the key to tracking the Tesseract down.

SHIELD gets to work on getting Steve Rogers & Tony Stark on board.

Loki is mad Thor is king, so he is working with this thing called "The Other" who just wants a bunch of worlds. Loki agrees to help get him the Tesseract which will help him take over worlds and then he'll give Loki Earth.

So Loki goes to Germany so that Clint can steal stuff needed to stabilize the Tesseract. The Avengers show up and Loki surrenders. Movie over. Jk. Thor arrives and frees him, hoping to convince him to abandon his plan and return to Asgard.

Stark and Rogers find them again and Loki is imprisoned in S.H.I.E.L.D.'s flying base. The Avengers argue about how to best handle the Loki situation especially after finding out that their plans for the Tesseract aren't to use it for good. They talk to Fury about it and he tells them they're making weapons to use against aliens.

Needless to say, the Avengers are not doing well. They don't like each other. They argue about everything. And they're being attacked by Loki's baddies, including Clint. This attack makes Bruce very angry and he turns into the Hulk. He chases after Natasha and hits her. Before he can do more damage, Thor shows up. Unfortunately, Loki ends up getting away & sending Thor falling to what might be his death. Loki then escapes after stabbing Agent Coulson.

Fury uses Coulson's death to motivate the Avengers to work together as a team. Loki uses the Tesseract to open a portal above Stark Tower in New York City, allowing his baddies to attack.

The Avengers, as they now call themselves, work together to protect New York.

The Hulk knocks Loki out while Black Widow finds out that Loki's scepter can shut down the Tesseract.

Fury's bosses don't trust the Avengers, so they shoot a missile at New York City. So Iron Man flies to intercept the missile and flies it toward the wormhole. Right when he pushes it through, Black Widow closes the wormhole but Stark is unconscious. The Hulk catches him and the Avengers wake him up.

Thor moves Loki and the Tesseract to Asgard, where Loki will face justice for his crimes.

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It's Festive Friday with a brand new holiday movie!
ABOUT UNEXPECTED CHRISTMAS
A family's perfect Christmas reunion is upended when old rivalries, secrets, and romantic mix-ups come to a head.
AIR DATE & NETWORK FOR UNEXPECTED CHRISTMAS
November 7, 2025 | Starz
CAST & CREW OF UNEXPECTED CHRISTMAS
Lil Rel Howery as Richard
DomiNque Perry as Marissa
Reagan Gomez-Preston as Kerry
Terrence Terrell as Michael
Trell Woodberry as Kyle
Cecelia Friday as Alicia
BRAN'S MOVIE SYNOPSIS
Richard and Marissa are hanging out in bed, they're having funnnnnn. They're dating and Marissa is like what are we? Richard is like we're having funnnnnn. That's not enough for Marissa. But after he goes to the restroom, his bag falls and a ring pops out! HE'S GOING TO PROPOSE! She's very happy now and now she wants him to come to family Christmas with her in Texas.
We meet more of her family - there's brother Kyle. He's married to Alicia. Alicia and Kyle aren't doing great. Kyle is just always too tired for the fun times.
And then there's Kerry who lives out in LA. She works in real estate, buying up buildings to build new business centers and what not. She finds out that the next purchase she needs to help push forward is actually her parents' church in Texas. She claims it won't be a problem. She gets a call from someone named "DO NOT ANSWER". Whoever is on the other line is shooting his shot and trying to get back with her which she agrees to.
Richard comes over and breaks up with Marissa. She's heartbroken. But off to Texas she goes to be with her family.
And Marissa is shocked when her sister shows up with her boyfriend....RICHARD!!! That's right.
It's an absolute mess. So she called up her gay best friend to have him come and act like her boyfriend to make Richard mad.
We find out that Marissa & Kerry are actually step sisters - Marissa's mom married Kerry's dad shortly after her dad passed away and Marissa has always been pretty mad about it.
One night, Marissa and Richard are able to talk and he promises that when he was with her, he and Kerry were on a break.
Richard is like next in line in his father's doctor practice thing and Kerry is always like you need to go ahead and make that official but Marissa is always like you do what you wanna do.
Well, one night, everything blows up. It comes out that Richard isn't going to follow in his dad's footsteps and Kerry isn't mad and he's like Marissa always supported me. So now everyone knows. And everyone is fighting. While that's happening, Alicia and Kyle are also fighting because she thinks he's cheating on her with a girl who is texting him. Turns out, it's just his therapist checking up on him because he apparently has yet to tell his wife that he has ED. And now the entire family knows. It's a mess.
Ultimately, Richard scrams, the sisters make up, Kerry quits her job because she doesn't want her family to sell the church that brings them so much joy, Alicia and Kyle make up, and everyone has a merry Christmas.

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Jacks joins us this week to continue our Season 13 viewing of the hit Hallmark Channel show, When Calls the Heart.
ABOUT: WHEN CALLS THE SEASON (SEASON 13 EPISODE 7)
A business proposition brings folks together as they help Minnie out of a jam. Nathan's fire investigation puts him in harm's way.
AIR DATE & NETWORK FOR: WHEN CALLS THE SEASON (SEASON 13 EPISODE 7)
February 15, 2026 | Hallmark Channel
CAST & CREW OF: WHEN CALLS THE SEASON (SEASON 13 EPISODE 7)
Erin Krakow as Elizabeth Thornton
Kevin McGarry as Nathan Grant
Chris McNally as Lucas Bouchard
BRAN’S WHEN CALLS THE SEASON (SEASON 13 EPISODE 7) SYNOPSIS
Minnie is in the jam business and it might get better. A hotel wants to stock it, but she only has 5 cans. She needs 500 cans by the morning. Rosemary and Elizabeth insist they help her. And they think the town will want to help!
Lucas and Lee are talking about Fernando being the contractor. Lucas insists he's fine with it. More than fine.
Gowan's son Christopher is freaking out. News is out that the boys didn't start the fire and now the electric company is grilling him. Gowan tells him to go look at the birds.
So he heads out with Nathan to find the transformer. Nathan insists he's not the one who was breaking the law.
The town is all together doing their jam thing. While squishing grapes, Hickam tells Fiona he wants to start a family.
Lucas isn't wearing a vest and Edie really likes it. They're walking and talking when they see a loose horse run by. Edie yells for Fernando to come help!
While walking the path, a car comes driving fast at Nathan and Christopher and Nathan pushes them off the path and down a hill. UH OH!
Rosemary is trying to get info out of Elizabeth and while they're talking, they miss one of the buckets of jam to put sugar in. UH OH!
Lucas thinks he's the one that is going to capture the horse but Fernando swoops in and sings to it.
They realize some of the cans are sour. So they have to find the 40 cans that don't have sugar. They're running out of time!
Nathan gets Chris to the infirmary (which is poppin' today, btw) and Nathan has blood on his side as well.
They fix all the jams but did they do it in time? The Rev is gonna drive fast and find out!
Elizabeth comes to check on Nathan. He's gonna be fine and he's gonna find the people responsible for this, cuz he remembers their license plate!
THE JAM MADE IT IN TIME! They decide they're gonna use the money to buy Bill's half of the cafe, something we all remember he owned.
Lucas isn't feeling very manly, so he goes back to his office, puts his vest back on, and tells Edie he's too busy to hang out. She reminds him her and Fernando are through!
The episode ends with bad news - the license plate belongs to a stolen vehicle that was torched! And to make matters worse, Christopher has fled town. He doesn't wanna help anymore. He scared.

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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 10 & 11)
Episode 10 - Hurt and upset when she finds herself uninvited to her parents' annual Christmas bash, Lorelai is frantic when she hears that her father Richard has collapsed at the party.
Episode 11 - Lorelai tries to break up with Rory's teacher, Max, during parents-teachers meeting, which creates more troubles for her daughter at school.
AIR DATE & NETWORK FOR: GILMORE GIRLS (SEASON 1 EPISODE 10 & 11)
Episode 10 - December 21, 2000 | The WB
Episode 11 - January 11, 2001 | The WB
CAST & CREW OF: GILMORE GIRLS (SEASON 1 EPISODE 10 & 11)
Lauren Graham as Lorelai Gilmore
Alexis Bledel as Rory Gilmore
BRAN’S GILMORE GIRLS (SEASON 1 EPISODE 10 & 11) SYNOPSIS
It's Christmas time and the prep for the Christmas pageant is in full swing, despite the fact that the baby Jesus is missing an arm. Lorelai and Rory have still not made up. The tension is palpable.
While at work later, Lorelai gets a call from Emily telling her about when the Christmas party is. Lorelai is talking about how she'd be late so Emily tells her not to come at all which is shocking to Lorelai. When Rory goes to leave, she tells her that she's sure Emily didn't mean it and asks her to go but Lorelai isn't budging. After Rory leaves, Lorelai hears a knocking coming from the window in Rory's room. It's Dean. Lorelai and Dean talk about what happened at Miss Patty's and she tells him to knock on the door next time.
While at the party, Richard keeps complaining that it's hot. He goes to turn the air on but doesn't come back to the table.
Lorelai shows up at Luke's, sad that she didn't go to the party because she likes the festive food, so he makes her a Santa burger. But she gets a call - her dad is in the hospital. He collapsed.
Luke shuts the diner down to drive her to the hospital. When she gets there, she finds Emily rushing around, trying to get answers. Lorelai is very uncomfortable seeing her dad in the hospital because things are complicated with her parents.
It turns out that he's going to be fine which is a relief, obviously. The big question now at the hospital is what's going on between Lorelai and Luke. Luke tells Emily it's nothing and she tells him he's stupid. And Emily & Lorelai squash their beef.
With all of that behind us, Lorelai gets back to dating Max Medina. It's going well, they're having fun. But after finding out that Rory is gonna start calling him Max outside of school because she assumes she's going to start seeing him more often because things are going well, Lorelai gets freaked out. She decides it's probably time to break things off because she doesn't want Rory to get attached.
Luckily for her, it's parent day at Chilton. A perfect time for her to break up with Max. She tries but instead, she ends up making out with him. Paris sees this happen and tells EVERYONE! Rory finds out and that leads to an argument. Unfortunately for them, it's time for Friday night dinner and Emily's heard about the kiss too. It's not great.
When Lorelai and Max finally talk about it, Max tells her that he got called into Headmaster Charleston's office and his job is in jeopardy. He thinks it's best that they take a break which Lorelai agrees to but that doesn't stop her from heading back home to cry in her bed as Rory consoles her.

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It's Tuesday which means it's time for a new Hallmark movie review!
ABOUT BECAUSE OF CUPID
Follows Naomi and Marcus, best friends and bartenders in Buffalo, New York, who enter a Valentine's Day mocktail contest to kickstart their dream business. After unknowingly adding a real love potion to their mocktail, they win the competition but spark chaos when judges-and Marcus-fall under its spell. As media attention grows, they race to find an antidote, questioning whether their own feelings are real. Ultimately, they discover their love is genuine, secure a career-making deal, and realize that the true magic was between them all along.
AIR DATE & NETWORK FOR BECAUSE OF CUPID
February 14, 2026 | Hallmark
CAST & CREW OF BECAUSE OF CUPID
Amy Groening as Naomi
Evan Roderick as Marcus
Adam Tsekhman as Hal
BRAN'S MOVIE SYNOPSIS
Meet Naomi and Marcus - best friends and co-workers. They're working at this bar but the owner is getting ready to sell it. Naomi and Marcus really don't want it to. Naomi has a plan to save it - mocktails. One day, EJ Cortland comes in. He's a famous romantasy author but no one knows that he's a he. The owner is a big fan and they get to talking. They're hitting it off until suddenly they're not. We find out that Marcus is very cynical about love. But when Naomi walks away, he opens up to this guy about being in love with her. This guy turns out to be a tea boy. Naomi really wants to work tea into a mocktail so he invites them to come to a tasting. When they go to the tasting, the dude gives Marcus a vial of tea that he says will make someone fall in love. Marcus is like wtf. Dude is like it's like how ginger soothes the tummy. Fair enough, guy.
There's this mocktail competition coming up that Marcus' rich uncle gets him and Naomi into.
She decides to make a little something something that night and includes the cupid juice, which she doesn't know about. She gives the drink to a ton of people, including Marcus. When Marcus gets on stage and sings a love song to Naomi. He figures out what happens - he insists to Naomi that he was already in love with her. But they gotta go check on everyone else that got some of the drink. And they are WILDDDDLY in love.
They go and they find the Cupid guy, "Hal". He is disappointed to find out that she didn't drink it, but he does give them the recipe to the antidote.
It takes some time but they're able to figure out what the actual recipe. But they do, and they start giving it to everyone that drank the drink. Some of them fall right out of love, but some of them (who were really in love beforehand) stay in love.
Naomi is really liking this new Marcus. She really doesn't want him to take the antidote. He is like I promise I've loved you.
It's time for the competition AND THEY WIN!!!
Speaking of winning, Marcus' uncle gets married - potion or no potion, my guy is in love. At the reception, Cupid is there and gives Marcus the antidote. It turns out....he wasn't under the spell of the potion at all. It takes two to tango.
Naomi realizes she's in love with him too and sings him a love song too. He tells her that he hasn't been under a spell this entire time.
And the good news keeps coming....their boss is basically giving them the bar. YAY! They celebrate by dancing and kissing.

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