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ABOUT: GILMORE GIRLS (SEASON 3 EPISODE 1)
Rory returns from Washington, D.C. for the First Annual Stars Hollow End of Summer Madness Festival. She realizes her feelings for Jess might be a lot stronger than she thought. Lorelai is having strong feelings of her own.
AIR DATE & NETWORK FOR: GILMORE GIRLS (SEASON 3 EPISODE 1)
September 24, 2002 | The WB
CAST & CREW OF: GILMORE GIRLS (SEASON 3 EPISODE 1)
Lauren Graham as Lorelai Gilmore
Alexis Bledel as Rory Gilmore
BRAN’S GILMORE GIRLS (SEASON 3 EPISODE 1) SYNOPSIS
Lorelai wakes up to the sounds of a TONNNN of alarm clocks. She yells down "you are hilarious!" When she comes down, Luke is down there making breakfast. Why is he at her house making breakfast? THEY KISS! AND SHE'S PREGNANT WITH TWINS! Except womp womp it's a dream. She wakes up and immediately grabs the phone to call Rory and asks her to please come home. She tells her all about her dream. Rory is like oh clearly you're in love with him and want to have his babies. Lorelai is like nope try again. Rory is like ok maybe you're upset about dad and the fact that he's having a baby with another woman. They're talking on the phone because Rory is still in DC but she comes home on Friday. She wakes up and we see that Dean has written her a ton of letters. But she's not writing Dean a letter, she's writing Jess!
Later, Lorelai is over at Sookie & Jackson's. She wants to paint the house but Jackson isn't having it.
Taylor is in a wheelchair thanks to someone leaving a banana on his front porch. The town is busy decorating for the end of summer madness festival and Taylor is PUMPED!!!! Lorelai walks by Luke's and just looks at him and then keeps walking.
Back in DC, we meet a dude named Jamie who is all chummy with Rory & Paris. He wants to get dinner with Paris to "prep" for the debate. Rory is like he just asked you out on a date! Paris wasn't aware and starts freaking out!!!
Meanwhile at the inn, Kirk is there trying to sell his hay skincare product. Lorelai gets a call from her mom and she's upset that Lorelai didn't call her to welcome them home from the vineyard.
Rory is on the phone with Dean. He's very excited to see her. She has to hang up cuz Paris is FREAKING out. After she leaves, Rory gets right back to writing Jess a letter.
So Lorelai hasn't told her parents about Christopher and Emily really wants him to come to dinner.
She goes to pick up Rory from the airport and it's big excitement! She tells her that she got her out of Friday night dinner so that she can hang out with Dean. She doesn't seem thrilled for some reason.
Rory comes home and immediately changes into a dress for some reason. When they make it to the summer festival, she sees Jess making out with a girl and she gets a bit upset much to Lorelai's surprise. Rory tells her about the kiss. Lorelai encourages her to figure out what the heck she wants because she's now officially treating Dean like dirt. Naturally, Dean walks up and Rory kisses him.
Lorelai makes it to her parents' and is struggling to tell them about Christopher. She finally does and it doesn't go well and leads to Emily & Richard arguing and Lorelai ducks out.
She makes it back to Stars Hollow and goes to talk to Luke. Apparently they're actually still mad at each other. That doesn't stop her from opening up to him about Christopher. He slides her down a donut.
When Lorelai gets home, Rory is already there. They make up and talk. She wants to stay with Dean.

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It's Tuesday which means there's a new Hallmark movie to review!
ABOUT A KNIGHT TO REMEMBER
A statue of an English knight arrives in Chicago for an art exhibit. While cleaning the statue, museum conservator Emily impulsively kisses the statue, bringing him to life.
AIR DATE & NETWORK FOR A KNIGHT TO REMEMBER
October 3, 2026 | Hallmark
CAST & CREW OF A KNIGHT TO REMEMBER
Director: Kevin Fair
Writers: Bryn Donovan, Michelle Ricci
Cast:
Julie Gonzalo as Emily
James Trevena as Sir Griffin
BRAN'S MOVIE SYNOPSIS
We're in Essex, England in 1428 and a knight is on a horse. He's Sir Griffin de Beauford and he makes a wish upon some stars. The stars end up coming together and he suddenly turns to stone!
We meet Emily Porter who helps curate a museum and they just got a new entry - a statue that was found out in a field after hundreds of years. Emily gets to work on cleaning him up. While cleaning him up, she sees some words engraved on it that say he'll only wake up after a kiss. She's like why the heck not and kisses him right on the lips and wouldn't you know it but he comes right to life. She quickly moves him to her apartment and he's shocked by cars and running water. After helping people like a knight does, she takes him to a medieval festival. He learns about the history of his people and it really throws him for a loop. Apparently his rival ended up marrying his ex-girlfriend. So that's tough. She tells him that history says that he disappeared on his wedding day. They start getting real close to each other. The sparks are flying. She gives him her hair tie for luck and he gives her his new hat.
But things aren't all on the up and up - her ex-husband is suspicious of this guy and as an FBI agent, he decides he's just gonna start an investigation because the armor is missing from the museum.
Bad news, he's slowly starting to turn to stone. Unless he gets a kiss from his true love, he'll turn to stone forever. Luckily, Emily loves him.
He ends up getting arrested but she helps get him released. He runs away cuz he's turning to stone but she finds him and kisses him. No more stone for that guy!
4 months later, they're doing medieval reenactments together and they're gonna go on a world tour!

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It's Marvel Monday and the antiheroes assemble!
ABOUT THUNDERBOLTS*
After finding themselves ensnared in a death trap, an unconventional team of antiheroes must go on a dangerous mission that will force them to confront the darkest corners of their pasts.
AIR DATE & NETWORK FOR THUNDERBOLTS*
May 2, 2025 | Theatrical Release
CAST & CREW OF THUNDERBOLTS*
Director: Jake Schreier
Writers: Eric Pearson, Joanna Calo, Kurt Busiek
Cast:
Florence Pugh as Yelena Belova
Sebastian Stan as Bucky Barnes
Julia Louis-Dreyfus as Valentina Allegra de Fontaine
Lewis Pullman as Robert Reynolds
David Harbour as Alexei Shostakov
Wyatt Russell as John Walker
Hannah John-Kamen as Ava Starr
BRAN'S MOVIE SYNOPSIS
Things kick off with Yelena blowing up a laboratory for CIA director Valentina Allegra de Fontaine. Why? Valentina is trying to erase any evidence connecting her to the O.X.E. Group and its mysterious "Project Sentry."
With Valentina facing impeachment, she decides the best way to clean up her mess is to send four of her former operatives—Yelena, John Walker, Ava Starr, and Antonia Dreykov—to a secret O.X.E. facility with one very simple instruction: kill each other.
Naturally, things don't go according to plan.
Ava kills Antonia, but then a random dude named Bob shows up and he doesn't seem to know how he got there. The group quickly realizes they weren't sent there to complete a mission—they were sent there to be killed alongside the evidence of Valentina's crimes. So they decide to work together. After coming into contact with Bob, Yelena and Walker also experience disturbing visions of some of their worst memories.
Valentina learns the group survived and discovers that Bob was actually a presumed-dead volunteer from the Sentry experiments. When she arrives at the facility, Bob draws enemy fire so Yelena, Walker, and Ava can escape. The problem is that Bob is apparently bulletproof, can fly, and has absolutely no idea what is happening to him.
Bob is eventually captured and taken to Manhattan where Valentina plans to introduce Bob to the public as a new superpowered hero, hoping the PR stunt will save her from impeachment.
Yelena's father figure Alexei overheard Valentina's plan while working as a freelance chauffeur and comes to rescue her. John Walker sarcastically gives the group a name—the Thunderbolts—inspired by Yelena's childhood soccer team.
Things get even messier when Congressman Bucky Barnes learns what's happened. With the help of Valentina's assistant Mel, who suspects Valentina might be the bad guy, Bucky captures the Thunderbolts and plans to have them testify during Valentina's impeachment proceedings. But after learning what happened to Bob, the group decides their new priority is getting into the Watchtower and finding him.
They discover that Valentina has convinced Bob to become a superhero called Sentry. Unfortunately, Sentry is basically unstoppable. He easily takes down the Thunderbolts, but refuses to kill them when Valentina orders him to, believing they're not actually a threat. Then Bob starts to lose control.
As his power grows, Bob turns against Valentina. Mel uses a failsafe kill switch to incapacitate him, but instead of solving the problem, it unleashes something much, much worse: the Void.
The Void is Bob's destructive alter ego, born from his depression, insecurities, trauma, and the effects of the Sentry procedure. And now it's taking over New York City, covering the city in darkness and trapping people inside visions of their own worst memories.
The Thunderbolts realize that the only way to stop the Void is to reach Bob from the inside, so Yelena enters the darkness and is forced to confront her own traumatic past as a Black Widow. Eventually, she finds Bob hiding in a recreation of his childhood bedroom.
The rest of the Thunderbolts join her, and together they make their way through Bob's memories. They find the Void, but it absolutely wrecks them.
Bob tries to fight back, but the Void is threatening to completely consume him. That's when the Thunderbolts do the one thing that no one else has been able to do: they remind Bob that he's not alone. They hug him, tell him they believe in him, and somehow manage to give him the strength to take control of the Void.
The darkness disappears, New York is saved, and everyone gets their memories back.
With the Void defeated, the Thunderbolts are ready to finally take Valentina down. But Valentina has one more trick up her sleeve. She holds a press conference and announces that the Thunderbolts are actually the NEW AVENGERS, taking credit for everything they just accomplished.
The team reluctantly goes along with it, but Yelena makes sure Valentina knows exactly where they stand.
"We own you now."
And honestly? She isn't wrong.

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It's time to wrap up season 2 of Gilmore Girls with a mailbag episode!

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It's Festive Friday with a terrifying Christmas Eve thriller!
ABOUT HE KILLS AT NIGHT
On Christmas Eve, a mother desperate to reconnect with her estranged family is abducted by a Serial Killer and forced to help him flee the country.
AIR DATE & NETWORK FOR HE KILLS AT NIGHT
2025 | Streaming
CAST & CREW OF HE KILLS AT NIGHT
Director: Thomas Pickering
Writer: James Pickering
Cast:
Levi Heaton as Marie
Roger Bingham as Donald
Isabella Percival
BRAN'S MOVIE SYNOPSIS
It's September 22nd. A woman pulls into a parking garage and is waiting for the elevator when someone starts to whistle. She starts looking around and the lights go off. When the lights come back on, she's gone and only her shoe remains.
Cut to the holiday season, a radio show is taking calls about a serial killer who is on the loose. It's December 24th and a girl is driving her car, listening to Christmas music. She stops on the side of the road to pee. When she gets back into the car, she sees someone is in the backseat. She tries to run, but he stops her. He tells her to start the car. Turns out, her keys are outside. This gives her time to light her jacket on fire and throw it on him but it doesn't work out too well and he ends up killing her and putting her in the trunk. He uses that car to make another car stop and forces this new woman to drive him somewhere but won't tell her where.
Throughout the movie, we see other women that were murdered.
This dude is trying to get out of the country and she's like let's go to the river and you can leave that way. When they get there, she takes him down and then it's revealed that she's actually the serial killer, not him....I think. I gotta be honest, I'm not sure.

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