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It's Marvel Monday and Spider-Man is going on vacation!

ABOUT SPIDER-MAN: FAR FROM HOME

Peter Parker decides to join his best friends Ned, MJ, and the rest of the gang on a European vacation. However, Peter's plan to leave super heroics behind for a few weeks are quickly scrapped when he begrudgingly agrees to help Nick Fury uncover the mystery of several elemental creature attacks, creating havoc across the continent.

AIR DATE & NETWORK FOR SPIDER-MAN: FAR FROM HOME

2019 | Theatrical Release

CAST & CREW OF SPIDER-MAN: FAR FROM HOME

Director: Jon Watts

Writers: Chris McKenna, Erik Sommers, Stan Lee

Cast:

Tom Holland as Peter Parker/Spider-Man

Samuel L. Jackson as Nick Fury

Jake Gyllenhaal as Quentin Beck/Mysterio

Jon Favreau as Happy Hogan

Zendaya as MJ

Jacob Batalon as Ned Leeds

BRAN'S MOVIE SYNOPSIS

We’re in Mexico and Nick Fury and Maria Hill are investigating reports of a mysterious storm caused by the Earth Elemental. They are rescued by a super-powered fella named Quentin Beck, who destroys the creature. Nick Fury is impressed. 

Back in New York,  the school year at Peter’s school has restarted after those erased by Thanos returned five years later. So things are a bit wacky there. Still grieving the death of his mentor, Tony Stark, Peter Parker joins his classmates on a two-week trip across Europe, hoping to tell MJ how he feels about her. Happy tells Peter that  Nick Fury is trying to reach him, but Peter ignores the call. He needs a vacay. 

The trip’s first stop in Venice, Italy, and it doesn’t go great. A water monster begins to attack the city. Peter secretly helps protect his classmates while our new friend Howard Beck, aka Mysterio, arrives and defeats the monster. 

Afterward, Fury shows up to meet Peter and gives him something that Tony wanted to give him - advanced E.D.I.T.H. glasses. Let's jsut say they're very powerful.  

Peter declines Fury’s request to join the mission and returns to his classmates, but Fury quietly reroutes the school trip to Prague where, uh oh, the Fire monster attacks. Peter fights alongside Mysterio. Afterwords, Peter and Beck are hanging out and Peter gives Beck E.D.I.T.H. glasses, convinced the world needs a hero like Mysterio more then him.

Once Peter leaves, Beck reveals the truth. The monsters were never real but elaborate holographic illusions created with advanced projection technology by a team of hurt former Stark Industries employees. Fired years earlier for his unstable behavior, Beck orchestrated the attacks to portray himself as the world’s newest superhero. With control of E.D.I.T.H. and its drone arsenal, he plans to create even larger illusions and cement his status as an Avenger-level protector.

After MJ reveals that she knows Peter is Spider-Man, she shows him a damaged projector she recovered from the Prague battle, leading them to realize that Beck is a bad guy. Peter rushes to Berlin to warn Fury, but Beck traps him in a series of illusions. 

Peter survives the attack and wakes up in the Netherlands, where he contacts Happy Hogan. Happy flies him to London, where Beck is staging his big illusion. Beck also plans to eliminate Peter’s classmates, fearing they could expose his fraud.

Peter battles through Beck and is able to use his his Spider-Sense to defeat him. He get the E.D.I.T.H. Back and  defeats Beck. 

, Peter and MJ meet back up and kissss! They get to New York and starts dating which means flying through the streets together. BUT, uh HOH, 

TheDailyBugle has some breaking news -  Beck has sent a video thet frames Spider-Man for Beck’s death and the London drone attack before revealing Peter Parker’s secret identity to the entire world.

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It's time for another Festive Friday! 

ABOUT ALL IS MERRY & BRIGHT

A teen's dreams are shattered by a car crash. Years later, she's a determined supermom with a cane, orchestrating elaborate Christmas shows. Personal issues force her to confront change and rediscover the true spirit of the season.

AIR DATE & NETWORK FOR ALL IS MERRY & BRIGHT

November 7, 2025 | Theaters

CAST & CREW OF ALL IS MERRY & BRIGHT

Director: Cory Edwards

Writers: Darbi Scaglione, Vicki Edwards

Cast:

Emily Rose as Jessica Tannen

Eric Close as Paul Tannen

John O'Hurley as Don 'Pop' Phillips

Sally Struthers as Viola 'Gran' Phillips

Doug Jones as Doug the Deliveryman

BRAN'S MOVIE SYNOPSIS

The movie kicks off with Jess. She's a teenager with A DREAM! A dream of dance! She gets a phone call that she has made it into this exclusive program. Her sister is pumped for her. But the excitement doesn't last long when they get into a bad car accident. Jess will never dance again.

25 years later, Jess is married and has a family and still has to use a cane. It's Thanksgiving and Jess makes quite the spread and breaks down the plan for the holiday season, INCLUDING the 10th annual family talent show. The kids are less than excited.

She gets a call from her sister and we find out that Jess has the early signs of rheumatoid arthritis which is not great. But she asks her not to tell her husband and kids when they all get together for Christmas. She just wants to have a perfect Christmas. She gets good news - the governor wants her to make cookies for their Christmas ball. But she gets bad news - her husband lost a big client and that's not great news. In the midst of the busyness of the season, Jess is excited to just get a day to herself. But that doesn't happen because her parents show up earlier than she thought. And then her sister says she's coming early to help. WHAT A MESS! Her sister does not help. In fact, their dog eats all of the cookies that she made for the governor's ball.

It all comes to a head - she gets into a big argument with her sister when she finds out that her sister told her husband about the rheumatoid arthritis. It's a mess.

Nothing a little Christmas church can't fix except turns out she was supposed to deliver the cookies before 5. So she leaves and rushes to drop the cookies off but then she realizes she didn't bring her cookies - she brought the super salty cookies her kids made. She rushes in to stop them from eating them and slips on the ice.

She's in the hospital feeling bad for herself and then has a dream where she realizes just how good she has it because of family.

She wakes up on Christmas morning and her family is there and they're inviting everyone to the talent show. They all have a wonderful Christmas together as a family.

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It's time for a very hot & festive preview show! 

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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 2 EPISODE 10)

While Rory struggles to keep the budding rivalry between Dean and Jess under control, Lorelai invites most of the citizens of Stars Hollow to an elaborate feast.

AIR DATE & NETWORK FOR: GILMORE GIRLS (SEASON 2 EPISODE 10)

December 11, 2001 | The WB

CAST & CREW OF: GILMORE GIRLS (SEASON 2 EPISODE 10)

Lauren Graham as Lorelai Gilmore

Alexis Bledel as Rory Gilmore

BRAN’S GILMORE GIRLS (SEASON 2 EPISODE 10) SYNOPSIS

We got snow, folk! We got snow! Lorelei and Rory are working on a snowman for the snowman making contest. But they don’t stand a chance. There’s like a professional snowman maker there doing his thing. 

Roon is back, folks! He’s still working at the inn apparently. We also see Jackson! What an episode. Sooki is busy getting ready for this big dinner for this 17th century festival thing. Jackson is assigned to play the squire. Lorelei gets a call from Christopher. He wants Rory to come stay with him and sherry for a couple days during winter break. 

They get bad news - the dinner is off. The group that was coming is snowed in. Since everything is already planned, they decide to just invite everyone in town! 

Meanwhile, Dean the Saint breaks up a fight that Jess is having. Jess says I don’t need your help. 

This party has everyone from Paris to Richard & Emily. They’re all very confused by Richard is suddenly in a great mood. Everywhere Rory turns, Jess is there just stating staring at her. 

Apparently Lorelei hired a million horse and carriage rides for everyone. She ends up taking a ride with a Luke. He tells her that he’s figured out the secret of parenting - lying. Lorelei breaks the news that kids know when you’re lying. 

While those two love birds take a ride, Jess hops on a sleigh with Rory. They have flirty fun time and then he’s like I don’t feel like Dean your is your type of guy. Rory is like what do you know?! 

It’s dinner time and Richard is the life of the party. And that’s when it comes out - he’s retired. This is news to literally everyone including Emily. 

Before bed, Rory asks if she’s heard from her dad. Lorelei is like ummmm maybe? She tells her about the offer and Rory is like why didn’t you tell me? Lorelei is like  I get dibs on this time of year with you! And I don’t like thinking about you not being here with me! Rory is like I get it. Let me think about it. Emily shows up to their room, all flustered about Richard’s big news. She ends up leaving to go for a walk and finds Richard in the lobby. They talk and make up. 

The next morning, everyone is going to leave. Dean catches Rory & Jess making eyes at each other. 

Rory and Lorelei take a sleigh ride home and see that someone destroyed the fancy snowman. Me-thinks it might’ve been Jess. 

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

ABOUT A CASTLE OF OUR OWN

When an overworked architect takes an unexpected summer trip, a sandcastle contest and a contractor help her reconnect with her daughter, rediscover joy, and find love she never saw coming.

AIR DATE & NETWORK FOR A CASTLE OF OUR OWN

June 27, 2026 | Hallmark

CAST & CREW OF A CASTLE OF OUR OWN

Director: Kay Shioma Metchie

Writer: Nina Weinman

Cast:

Erica Cerra as Marley

Brennan Elliott as Adam

BRAN'S MOVIE SYNOPSIS

A dude named Gordo is the GOAT of sand castles. He has been cleaning house at the Vero Beach contest every year, but it's time for him to go home to Cannon Cove and return to his roots. It might be a smaller competition, but it'll just be nice to go home.

Marley is an overworked mom. Her daughter Lily is over it. But it's not just her mom that's a workaholic. Her ex-husband is supposed to take Lily to Cannon Cove for a week, but he has a big work thing come up, so he asks Marley to take a couple of days off until he can get up there. She reluctantly agrees. If I have to spend time with my daughter, I have to spend time with my daughter.

They get to the rental, and the water isn't working, so they have to call a plumber. She can tell that her daughter is distracted by something, but she won't say what.

The plumber shows up, and he's so much hotter than her ex-husband, it's insane. His name is Adam Sullivan, and it turns out he's not a plumber. He's just the neighbor next door who happened to have a toolbox in the bed of his pickup truck.

Lily meets Adam's niece, and they bond over their love of art, and she invites her to hang out with some friends.

Marley decides to sign her and her daughter up for the sandcastle competition. She goes out to practice, and it's harder than she thought it would be. When she sees how good Adam is at building his castle, she asks if he'll help them get ready for the competition. He gives them a lesson, and they come up with a name - Last One Sanding - and also ask Paige to join their team too. For round one, they decide to go bold with the Eiffel Tower because Lily says since my parents keep promising to take me and never do, this might be the only way I see it. It's not going well, so Adam decides to take them to fly a kite.

It's competition time, and they don't quite move on. But they find contraband in one of the other castles, which disqualifies that castle. So they move on!!!!

Adam and Marley keep hanging out more, he keeps convincing her not to pick up her phone, and they end up kissing big times.

She decides she's going to quit her job and go back into residential architecture all thanks to Adam as her inspiration.

It's scary though. There's a lot of financial risk there. Luckily for her, her ex-husband offers to buy a chunk of her ownership in their joint business.

They're building their championship build - the pyramids. Our guy Gordo isn't concerned. BUT HE SHOULD BE! Cuz he loses.

But Last One Sanding doesn't win either. But they do get honorable mention!

Adam and Marley talk and decide it's best if they break things off now since it's clearly not going to work with them not living close.

But with the help of HER EX-HUSBAND, he decides to shoot his shot and move to Seattle to be close to her. They kiss some more!

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