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Feb 20 2026
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The Entertainment Forecast

What to watch, and more! Week of Feb. 20 – Feb. 26

Civil War women, a new take on ‘Dracula,’ movies for grownups & Mike Wolff ‘picks’ at history!

Learn about the women who helped turn the tide of the Civil War in ‘The Grey House’ on PBS Thursday.

FRIDAY, Feb. 20
Dracula
New spin on the old vampire tale is a satirical comedy mixes sci-fi, folklore, AI and horror as vampire hunts and labor strikes collide in modern-day Transylvania (Mubi).

The Last Thing He Told Me
Season two features producer and star Jennifer Garner returning to the pulse-pounder about an on-the-run mom and daughter racing to reunite their family before the past catches up with them (Apple TV).

SATURDAY, Feb. 21
Double Double Trouble
A woman (Tami Roman) is pulled into a dangerous psychological battle with her twin, leading to deadly consequences (8 p.m., Lifetime).

Comedy Movie Marathon
You’ll laugh until, well, it’s over with Tag, Big Daddy, The Wedding Singer (above) and Central Intelligence (starts 2 p.m., TBS).

SUNDAY, Feb. 22
Movies for Grownups Awards
AARP’s annual presentation includes a special Lifetime Achievement Award for Adam Sandler, and trophies to flicks and performances that have special appeal to audiences over 50 (7 p.m., PBS).

History’s Greatest Picks with Mike Wolff
The former American Pickers co-host dives into the intriguing stories and astonishing values behind legendary treasures, relics, and artifacts from history (9 p.m., The History Channel).

MONDAY, Feb. 23
CIA
New series about an FBI special agent (Nick Gehlfuss) teamed with a CIA case officer (Tom Ellis) to work covert ops in New York and uncover international plots, terrorist cells and other bad stuff goin’ down (10 p.m., CBS).

The CEO Club
New reality series follows a group of trailblazing female CEOs (above)—Serena Williams among them—as they navigate the triumphs and challenges of their professional and personal lives (Prime Video). 

TUESDAY, Feb. 24
Murder In…
New season about dirty deeds in lovely, exotic places, like Saint Martin, Concarneu and at the French Open (MHZ Choice).

WEDNESDAY, Feb. 25
Scrubs
New reinvention of the early 2000s sitcom about hospital employees stars Zach Braff, Donald Faison and Sarah Chalke (8 p.m., ABC).

The Greatest Average American
Comedian Nate Bargatze hosts this new game show that celebrates the power of being perfectly “average” through challenges and trivia (9:02 p.m., ABC).

THURSDAY, Feb. 26
Who the Hell is Regina Jones?
Learn all about the publisher and founder of Soul magazine, the pioneering national print platform where Black artists could get coverage long before other magazines entered the arena (Dabl, Start TV and Story Television).

The Grey House
Mary-Louise Parker, Daisy Head and Paul Anderson lead the cast of this true story about the unsung heroes whose resistance helped turn the tide of the American Civil War (Prime Video).

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The world is getting more crowded (and less affordable) every day. Plugin House: Modern Prefab Architecture (Thames & Hudson) shows how prefabricated structures—built quickly and with limited tools—can address the needs of rapidly growing populations around the world for the 1.6 people who lack adequate housing.

You’re never too young to start a lifelong fascination with magic! Barb Rosenstock’s Houdini’s Library (Knopf) introduces young readers to the world’s most iconic stage magician and escape artist—perfectly timed for the 100th anniversary of his death—with a glimpse into his lifelong interest in reading and books, and the “magic” he found within. (And the illustrations are all from hand-cut paper by Barcelonan illustrator Mar Delmar!)

BRING IT HOME

Allison Williams, Dave Franco, McKenna Grace and Mason Thames star in Regretting You (Paramount Home Entertainment), a moving story of love and loss after a devastating accident. Bonus content include behind-the-scenes featurettes, the cast’s experiences with romance and regret, and more.

Feb 17 2026
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Movie Review: “Epic”

New fine-tuned Elvis doc reminds us why he’ll always be The King.

EPIC
Starring Elvis Presley
Directed by Baz Luhrmann
Rated PG

In IMAX theaters Friday, Feb. 20, and wide release Friday, Feb. 27

Australian director Baz Luhurmann’s 2022 movie Elvis starred Austin Butler as Elvis. This new one upgrades to the real deal: Elvis as Elvis, and more Elvis-y than ever. EPIC stands for Elvis Presley in Concert.

And that’s exactly what it is, and what makes it epic. It’s Elvis in concert like you’ve never seen Elvis before. Using recently unearthed and newly restored performance footage, old Super8 home movies and TV appearances, it’s a masterfully orchestrated immersion into the remarkable, iconic arc of Presley’s unmatched career, using his own words as narration. Much of the speaking—Elvis talking about his childhood, military service, musical influences, movies, fame, singing, his parents and more—comes from previously unreleased archival interviews, which the movie expertly interweaves throughout.  

A lot of the performance footage is from concerts filmed for two previous movies, Elvis: That’s the Way It Is (1970) and Elvis on Tour (1972). But now it’s been meticulously cleaned up and sharpened into strikingly vivid detail and definition, re-edited with enhanced audio that replicates what it must have felt like to be there live. It’s a movie you don’t just see and hear, you feel—the explosive chords, the bone-shaking seismic rumble of bass guitar, the percussive wallop of drums. It’s the energy, the excitement, the emotional mojo of watching Elvis so clearly, so up close and personal, curling his lips into that megawatt smile and making you feel like you’re right there with him. 

We also see Elvis in the Army and on The Ed Sullivan Show, where he was famously shown from only the waist up to not unsettle viewers with his pelvic gyrations. (We hear Elvis say music makes him feel like he’s got “ants in my pants.”) We watch as his singing superstardom leads him to Hollywood, where he languished in the doldrums of unchallenging acting roles. (Cue “Edge of Reality,” which he recorded in 1970, and its line about “life’s dream lies disillusioned.”)

And we’re along for the ride as he rehearses, then takes his show to Las Vegas for his triumphant musical comeback after all those cheesy films. Over the course of 90 minutes, we see or hear bits of some 75 songs, and some in their entirety, from “Hound Dog,” “Heartbreak Hotel” and “Don’t Be Cruel” to “In the Ghetto,” “Polk Salad Annie” and “I Shall Be Released.” You’ll hear Elvis put his own spin on Beatles, Simon and Garfunkel and the Righteous Brothers. It’s jam-packed, start to finish, with music.

We see women wailing, swooning, rushing the stage, grabbing, trying to wrangle a kiss or rip away a piece of his high-collared jumpsuit. We see his manager, Col. Tom Parker, whose dubious machinations kept Elvis from touring internationally, working at a feverish pace, and likely cut him out of money he should have received (cue “Devil in Disguise”). We see Elvis joshing with his backup singers, the Sweet Inspirations, and at home with wife Priscilla and their daughter, Lisa Marie. We learn how he winds down after the hormonal surge of a show by singing old gospel songs for hours with his backup quartet, the Jordanaires.   

But mostly we get Elvis being Elvis, singing, sopping wet with flop sweat, whipping and karate-kicking up a storm on stage, moving like he’s goosed with electrical current, grooving, teasing, pleasing, playing the audience like a showroom-sized instrument, building them up, calming them down, leaving them breathless at the end. “You started to rev it up,” Sammy Davis Jr. tells him after a show, “and it never stopped!”

For legions of Elvis fans, indeed, it’s never stopped.  He’s been gone now for almost 50 years, but this fine-tuned virtuoso documentary, this glossy and glorified salute, reminds everyone anew why he’ll always be The King.

—Neil Pond

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Feb 13 2026
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The Entertainment Forecast

What to watch, and more! Week of Feb. 13 – Feb. 19

A Valentine’s Day marathon, more ‘Dark Winds’ in the desert & a triple ‘Hangover’

Watch a Valentine’s Day pair of ‘Father of the Bride’ flicks.

FRIDAY, Feb. 13
Kissing is the Easy Part
Asher Angel, Paris Berelc and Jennifer Robertson star in this YA romcom about a straight-A student who agrees to tutor a wild child, causing some crazy sparks to fly (Tubi). 

Honey Bunch
A woman who wakes from a coma begins to think that neither her treatment nor her husband is really helping her. Starring Grace Glowicki, Ben Petrie and Jason Issacs (Shudder).

SATURDAY, Feb. 14
The Dating App Killer: The Monica White Story
A mom (Lela Rochon) discovers she may have the key to ending the deadly rampage a dude (Jarod Joseph) she met online (8 p.m., Lifetime).

Valentine’s Day TV Marathon
Cuddle up with your honey bunch and date-themed episodes of Modern Family, Friends and Big Bang Theory, followed by two Father of the Bride flicks (begins 7 a.m., TBS).

SUNDAY, Feb. 15
Dark Winds
The acclaimed noir thriller is back for season four, focusing on a missing Navajo girl, a race against the clock and an obsessive killer with ties to organized crime (9 p.m., AMC and AMC+).

Love, Ted Bundy
Two-hour crime doc reveals the torrid tale of the infamous serial killer’s letters to the woman who says she loved him like a brother. Her name was Edna, and now she’s ready to tell her story (6 p.m., Oxygen).

MONDAY, Feb. 16
Hangover Movie Marathon
It’s all three of the boozy adventures of best friends in The Hangover and its two movie sequels (begins 10 a.m., TBS).

TUESDAY, Feb. 17
Sommore: Chandelier Fly
The contemporary comedy diva returns to Detroit for her 7th standup special (Netflix).

WEDNESDAY, Feb. 18
56 Days
Dove Cameron and Avan Jorgia lead the cast in this twisty psychological thriller about a toxic love affair adapted from Catherine Ryan Howard’s bestseller (Amazon Prime).

Rain Bombs
Follow scientists as they race to understand an invisible, unpredictable atmospheric force wreaking havoc across the globe—sinking superyachts, flattening forests and bringing down airliners (9 p.m., PBS).

THURSDAY, Feb. 19
True Crime Story: It Couldn’t Happen Here
Hilarie Burton-Morgan from The Walking Dead hosts the new season examining the challenges and complexities of small-town justice (10 p.m., Sundance TV).

Murder in Glitterball Hall
Two-part documentary about a dark tale of a 2010 murder case that starts with a 911 phone call that leads police to the gruesome discovery of a body buried in the basement of a Victorian mansion in Lexington, Ky. (8 p.m., HBO Max)

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Playmakers (W.W. Norton) by Michael Kimmel tells the fascinating story of the first-generation Jewish American toymakers who gave us golden 20th Century childhoods by climbing the ladder of New World success at Ideal Toys, Hasbro and Lionel Trains—and creating such icons as Barbie, G.I. Joe, Popeye, Superman and Mr. Potato Head.

What’s the connection between Aristotle and Alan Jackson? You might think country music is all about pickup trucks and beer but check out Country Music and Philosophy (McFarland) to dig a lot deeper into the subject, with essays on such wide-ranging topics as “Law and Virtue in Outlaw Country,” “Why Do We Drink, Smoke and Cheat on Those We Love Most” and “Bards and (Prison) Bars.”

Need a bit more hocus-pocus-ery in your life? Get author Brigid Ehrmantraut’s Celtic Magic: A Practitioner’s Guide (Thames & Hudson), which invites readers to explore the mysteries of the ancient practices of a people for whom “mysticism” wasn’t just parlor tricks, but the basis of an entire religion. It’s fascinating stuff! 

Another “magical” new book is Mundane Magic: A Lazy Witch’s Guide to Hacking Your Brain (Rodale), in which Demystify Magic podcaster and crystal healing expert Molly Donlan tells how motivational fun, actionable exercises and some handy practices and rituals can make life simpler and more joyful.

BRING IT HOME

It’s like being in the front row with Broadway on the Big Screen (AV Entertainment), a roundup of six Broadway hits that got the Hollywood treatment: Gypsy, Guys and Dolls, Brigadoon, Damn Yankees, The Boyfriend and The Pajama Game, with stars including Twiggy, Doris Day, Gene Kelly, Marlon Brando, Frank Sinatra and Natalie Wood. Order at https://moviezyng.com/products/broadway-on-the-big-screen-6-film-collection?_pos=1&_psq=Broadway+on+the+big&_ss=e&_v=1.0

The late, great actress Diane Keaton made her directorial debut with Heaven (Lightyear Entertainment) back in the 1980s, exploring the idea of the hereafter and asking such probing questions as “What do you think God looks like?,” “Is there sex in heaven?” and “Are you afraid to die?” Now re-released on DVD, it’s a freewheeling, almost surreal excursion into the afterlife, featuring interviews with real people, snippets of TV evangelists and songs mixed with old movie clips. It’s a trip!

Available for the first time on 4K UHD, 2014’s Nightcrawler (Shout! Studios) stars Jake Gyllenhaal as a freelance news crime photographer drawn deep into the nocturnal underbelly of modern-day Los Angeles. With Renee Russo, Riz Ahmed and Bill Paxton. Plus commentary and other behind-the-scenes bonus features.

It’s Oscar-rama with two new re-releases of classic films now available on 4K discs. Ben-Hur (1959) starred Charlton Heston as moviedom’s most iconic Roman chariot racer, while All the President’s Men (1976) featured the dynamic duo of Robert Redford and Dustin Hoffman as tenacious newspaper reporters who exposed President Nixon’s Watergate scandal. Together, the two films brought home 15 Academy Awards!

Hugh Jackman and Kate Hudson sing up a storm in the highly acclaimed, heart-rending Song Sung Blue, based on a real-life Wisconsin couple who performed in a Neil Diamond tribute band. You’ll laugh, you’ll cry, you’ll sing along to “Sweet Caroline”! With Michael Imperioli, Jim Belushi and Fisher Stevens.

Nicolas Cage has done some crazy flicks in his time, and now he’s Joseph (yep, the father of Jesus) in The Carpenter’s Son (Magnolia Home Entertainment), a sorta-Biblical tale with a horror-movie twist. Noah Jupe, recently Shakespeare’s son in Hamnet, plays young Jesus.

Feb 11 2026
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Movie Review: “Wuthering Heights”

Margot Robbie and Jacob Elordi are the eye candy in this sexed-up, not-so-sweet new spin on Emily Brontë’s classic tale of toxic love

“Wuthering Heights”
Starring Margot Robbie and Jacob Elordi
Directed by Emerald Fennell
Rated R

In theaters Friday, Feb. 13

When you see children laughing at a hanged man’s visible erection in the opening scene, you know you’re in for a wild ride in director Emerald Fennell’s engorged adaptation of Emily Brontë’s enduring tale of love, longing, obsession and revenge on the bleak, tempest-tossed moors of old England in the 1800s.

There have been dozens of adaptations of Wuthering Heights over the decades, as films, TV series, plays and operas. Fennell, a provocative director (Promising Young Woman, Saltburn) who likes to color outside the lines, wanted quote marks around the title to perhaps suggest that her version takes some, ahem, creative liberties as it romps around the ol’ Yorkshire block. I don’t recall any of the previous versions—with Sir Laurence Olivier, Richard Burton, Ralph Fiennes and Timothy Dalton—having a soundtrack so heavy on Charli XCX, or a sweaty, voyeuristic BDSM session in the horse barn.

“This” version stars Margot Robbie as Catherine and Jacob Elordi, who plays Heathcliff, who first meet as children (where their characters are played by Charlotte Mellington and Owen Cooper, who won an Emmy as the young murder suspect in the acclaimed TV miniseries Adolescence) and form a bond that turns into love. Years later, as adults, Catherine marries for money (to the suave aristocrat Edgar Linton, played by Shazad Latif), and the heartbroken Heathcliff gallops away on horseback.

When he returns, shorn of his hirsute, caveman-ish locks and more hunky-cool than swarthy, it sets up the story’s tangled, thorny and ultimately tragic romantic triangle, with loads of horny heavy breathing and heaving sex—in horse-drawn carriages, on beds and kitchen tables, in rain-soaked woodlands and fog-shrouded coastal planes. In between episodes of amped-up amour, Catherine indulges in some self-pleasuring on a rockpile, and Heathcliff gets freaky with a whip, chains…and Linton’s kinky, hot-to-trot sister (Alison Oliver). It’s 50 Shades of Play, Victorian-style.

As one character instructs early on, “Check his breeches for soilage.” Uh, yes.

Gotta give a couple of shoutouts here, to Hong Chou as the see-all, know-all servant Nelly, a paragon of cool restraint in the middle of all the rampant horn-doggery. And esteemed British character actor Martin Clunes plays Catherine’s miserable poppa, Earnshaw. He’s a scene stealer as he wallows in self-inflicted shambles and has trouble holding onto his temper, his money, his estate…and his rotting teeth.

The movie alternates between squalor and sumptuousness, from mud and blood and hog butchering to high-falootin’ parlor games and luxurious boudoirs. Robbie slips into dozens of gowns and dresses, cool little sunglasses and multiple hairstyles. Elordi, the former star of Euphoria who most recently played the “monster” in Guillermo del Toro’s Frankenstein, rocks soiled stable-boy peasant wear and, later—after his moorland makeover—a hipster earring and a gold tooth. Sometimes, the whole cinematic experience feels more like watching set changes for a two-hour Vogue photo shoot.

It oozes eroticism but remains emotionally distant, an overheated, overcooked, overstuffed and overwrought exercise in campy style over solid substance, a toxic-relationship tale pairing an eye-candy couple of Hollywood hotties. But if you’re dying for a randy, bodice-bustin’ love story that doesn’t end well, try this one on for size. It may not go down as the definite take on a heartrending romance for the ages, but it’s probably the only flick you’ll see this year with end credits for “candle wrangler,” “horse master” and “tooth molder” as well as drone operators.

—Neil Pond

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Feb 06 2026
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The Entertainment Forecast

What to Watch, and more! Week of Feb. 6 – Feb. 12

Puppies bowl, monsters mash and a little girl becomes a chess queen!

FRIDAY, Feb. 6
Queen of Chess
Doc about a Hungarian girl named Judit Polgar and how she became the No. 1 chess player in the world (Netflix).

Shall We Dance
Acclaimed 1996 film, now restored in hi-definition, about an unhappy Japanese accountant who finds a missing passion in his life when he starts taking ballroom dancing lessons (Mubi).

SATURDAY, Feb. 7
Engineering Europe
Learn about the science and ingenuity of some of Europe’s most impressive engineering feats, like the Eiffel Tower and the London Bridge, plus electric flying machines and seaborne ports (Disney+).

Monster Movie Marathon
Settle in for the oversized fun of Godzilla Vs. Kong (above), Godzilla Vs. Kong: The New Empire and Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom (begins 3 p.m., TBS).

SUNDAY, Feb. 8
Puppy Bowl XXII
The cutest dogs on any gridiron—a televised live event promoting pet adoption—features 150 canines from more than 70 shelters across America (2 p.m., Animal Planet, Discovery, TruTV, HBO Max, Discovery+).

The ‘Burbs
A contemporary reimagining of the 1989 Tom Hanks cult horror comedy about couples whose lives become hilariously upended on their once peaceful little cul-de-sac, where a possible mass murderer looms. This one stars Keke Palmer, Julia Duffy, Jack Whitehall and Mark Proksch (Peacock).

MONDAY, Feb. 9
The Librarians
Independent Lens doc about the front-line workers fighting the national battle for control of what Americans are able to read (PBS).

Matter of Time
Documentary follows singer Eddie Vedder and a passionate community uniting to cure epidermolysis bullosa, a rare genetic skin disorder (Netflix).

TUESDAY, Feb. 10
The Artful Dodger
Australian comedy-adventure heist drama—based loosely on the character from Charles Dickens’ Oliver Twist—returns for season two (above), starring Thomas Brodie-Sangster, David Thewlis and Maia Mitchell (Hulu and Disney+).

Chef’s Kiss
Set against the scenic backdrop of Tuscany, this delectable romcom follows a young marketing exec (Adrienne Bailon-Houghton) assigned to revitalize a family-owned pasta-sauce brand. But her mission gets sidetracked when she meets a hunky chef (Tim Robards). The Roku Channel.

WEDNESDAY, Feb. 11
Mammal Origins
How did humans, and other mammals, first appear on the Earth? This probing NOVA documentary digs deep into the history of the warm-blooded dominance of the animal kingdom (9 p.m., PBS).

THURSDAY, Feb. 12
Soul Power
Four-part docuseries explores the rise and fall of the American Basketball Association (ABA) and its lasting impact on sports and American culture with superstar players like Julius Irving, Moses Malone and Spencer Haywood (Prime Video).

Can You Keep a Secret?
New comedy series about a domineering granny (Dawn French) and her late husband (Mark Heap)…who, it turns out, isn’t so “late” after all (Paramount+). 

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Celebrate what would have been the 89th birthday of the late, great Roberta Flack and get With Her Songs: The Atlantic Albums, 1969–1978 (Rhino), an 8-CD retrospective collection that rounds up a decade of her recorded work from the late 1960s thru the ‘70s. You’ll hear hits including “The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face,” “Killing Me Softly,” “Where is the Love,” “The Closer I Get to You,” plus all the album tracks.

Feb 04 2026
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Movie Review: “Still Hope”

Faith-based drama wraps the unpleasant realities of sex trafficking in victory-in-Jesus sunshine

Still Hope
Starring Luna Rivera
Directed by Richie Johns
Rated PG-13

In limited theatrical distribution Thursday, Feb. 5

If you’re jonesing for a faith-based drama about teen sex trafficking, here you go. This is about a 16-year-old girl, Hope (Luna Rivera), yanked from her comfortable suburban high-school life into the dehumanizing maw of a nefarious trafficking operation.

The fact that it opens with Hope’s family in a white-bread Sunday worship service might give you some idea of where it’s going to go, with Hope ultimately emerging from her ordeal—like Christ, robed in pure white, leaving behind the “empty tomb” of her traumatic past—into bright sunlight, embracing forgiveness…and reciting The Lord’s Prayer.

Still Hope is a based-on-true-stories “message” movie, reminding viewers of the depravities of human trafficking and encouraging them to counter it by supporting faith-based recovery groups like the one to which Hope goes for counseling and rehab—and a big dose of Jesus—after escaping. “There’s a lot of Jesus talk,” a former fellow trafficking victim tells Hope, and indeed there is. If you miss the point, there’s even a big, joyous baptism scene at the end.

This is the kind of movie that suggests that there’s no kind of woe that can’t be wiped and washed away by the so-called blood of the lamb and finding the “peace of Christ.” If it feels like a glorified infomercial for spirituality-inclined sex-trafficking recovery programs, maybe that’s because one of the film’s “collaborative partners” is the co-founder of one of them (the Pure Hope Foundation in Texas, which seeks to bring “light to the darkness” for trafficking victims). Filmmaker Richie Johns, making his debut here as a full-fledged director, cut his teeth as a production assistant on The Chosen, the multi-season TV/video series about the life of Jesus.

So, it’s true to its Bible-based bona fides, but not so much to the raw reality in which it wants to ground itself. For a film set in the murky world of sex trafficking, it never mentions the word sex, and it certainly never depicts it. (And we hear trafficking mentioned just once.) We see Hope dressed in scanty nighties, being delivered to hotel rooms—and in one case, leaving what is assuredly a porno set—to make satchels of cash for her pimp (Alex Veadov). What she’s doing is only referred to as her “job” or her “work.” It’s like a movie about baseball that never shows any baseball players playing baseball.

We meet Hope’s online date (Daniel Reid Ferrell) in a muscle car who drugs her then delivers her to the cartel of black-SUV-driving traffickers. How monstrous are they? Not only do they slap Hope around, beat her with a belt, bruise her and shoot her up with drugs, they later nab a little preteen girl (Averi Curtis) off the street and turn her into a Pretty Baby. (Hello, Epstein Files!) There’s the earnest FBI agent (James Liddell) working to crack the case of Hope’s sudden disappearance, calm her frantic parents (Michelle Haro and John D. Michaels) and track down her captors.

But Rivera, as Hope, is clearly the star of the show. A former high school cheerleader from Florida, here she gets to act all over the place: cowering, sobbing, raging, screaming, running, recoiling, anguishing over haunting flashbacks of her two-year nightmare. Her biggest emoting comes toward the end, in an impassioned outpouring about sin and forgiveness with her rehab counselor (Wilma Rivera).

By dividing screen time between Hope’s hellish ordeal as well as her victory-in-Jesus recovery, the movie feels like a TV crime procedural sandwiched between slabs of church-pew homilies, kinda like a CSI: Sunday School. It won’t win any awards for acting or anything else, but its depiction of transformation, turnaround and even transfiguration from the foul trenches of despicable evil may come as an affirming balm for world-weary believers.

—Neil Pond

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