Felicity: An American girl Adventure

Felicity: An American Girl Adventure is the second in the series of American Girl film series. It is a made-for-television drama film that is based on the American Girl children's books written by Valerie Tripp, and premiered on The WB on November 29, 2005. The teleplay was written by Anna Sandor.   

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Ten-year-old Felicity Merriman is growing up in Williamsburg, Virginia, just before the American Revolution. High-spirited and independent, Felicity decides to tame a wild horse owned by an abusive leather maker/tanner, Jiggy Nye. Even though her parents Martha and Edward forbid her, she runs off to be with the horse, whom she names Penny. She eventually tames Penny and the two become fast friends.   

Meanwhile, tension grows between the colonists. Some, including Edward and his apprentice Ben Davidson, wish for independence from King George III of England. Others, like Felicity’s grandfather and her best friend Elizabeth Cole’s family, remain loyal to the king.

Rating: 10 Stars

Date with an Angel, 1987

Date with an Angel is a 1987 American romantic fantasy comedy film written and directed by Tom McLoughlin, and starring Michael E. Knight, Phoebe Cates, Emmanuelle Béart, and David Dukes. The film follows an aspiring composer (Knight) who discovers an angel (Béart) with a broken wing in his swimming pool, while having to deal with his jealous fiancée (Cates).

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Aspiring composer Jim Sanders is engaged to Patty Winston, the spoiled daughter of Ed Winston, who owns a cosmetics company. On the night of the couple's engagement party, three masked robbers kidnap Jim and escape in a car. The kidnappers are revealed to be Jim's best friends, George, Don, and Rex, who drive him back to his apartment for his bachelor party. Later, after passing out drunk, Jim awakens to find an angel lying unconscious in his swimming pool. He takes the Angel inside and revives her with mouth-to-mouth resuscitation. The Angel is unable to speak, only communicating in coos and high-pitched squeals. As they find that her right wing is broken, she kisses Jim.

The next morning, George, Don, and Rex discover the Angel at Jim's apartment and suggest exploiting her for profit, but Jim strongly opposes it. Shortly after Jim sews up the Angel's broken wing, Patty arrives at his apartment, but seeing the Angel wrapped in a blanket, she assumes Jim is having an affair and angrily leaves. That night, he takes the Angel to a fast-food restaurant, where she develops a taste for French fries. While Jim leaves to call Patty from a payphone, unsuccessfully trying to make amends, his friends attempt to lure the Angel into their car with French fries, before he chases them away and takes her back home. There, Ed arrives and confronts Jim, but upon looking at the Angel's face, he becomes enchanted by her and leaves.

The next day, due to the failure of his company's latest campaign, Ed sets out to replace Patty with the Angel as the company's spokesperson, which further infuriates Patty. Meanwhile, Jim's friends devise a scheme to capture the Angel by arranging for him to meet Patty over a reconciliation. When Jim arrives with the Angel, Patty storms out and he follows, whereupon his friends kidnap the Angel and drive away. The next day, as the trio reveals a bound and gagged Angel to a press conference, Jim comes to her rescue and takes her to his old treehouse in the woods.

While hiding out, Jim tells the Angel that his father got him interested in music, but six months earlier, he began to suffer from severe headaches that caused him to stop composing. Jim and the Angel then share a dance to one of his compositions. After removing the bandage from the Angel's wing, Jim advises her to leave before the others find her. As the Angel disappears, an increasingly unhinged Patty arrives and slaps Jim, prompting an invisible Angel to punch and kick Patty. Ed and Jim's parents arrive, as do George, Don, and Rex. Amid the chaos, the Angel reappears and drives away Patty and Ed with rain clouds, before disappearing into the sky.

The others notice that Jim has collapsed and rush him to a hospital, where the doctor divulges that his headaches are caused by a brain tumor in an advanced stage. When the Angel appears in Jim's hospital room, he is convinced that she has come to take him to heaven. She kisses him, and as he falls asleep, she wraps her wings around him. Shortly after George, Don, and Rex walk in to check on Jim, the Angel—now a nurse who can speak—assures them that she has it "on the highest authority" that Jim will be around for a long time. As Jim awakens, the Angel tells him that she has been granted a leave of absence for good behavior, allowing them to be together. She tells him she is craving French fries, before they embrace and kiss.

Rating: 10 Stars

Aquaman and the Lost Kingdom, 2023 (Netflix)

Aquaman and the Lost Kingdom is a 2023 American superhero film based on the DC Comics character Aquaman. Directed by James Wan from a screenplay by David Leslie Johnson-McGoldrick, it is the sequel to Aquaman (2018) and the 15th and final film in the DC Extended Universe (DCEU) produced by DC Films. Jason Momoa stars as Arthur Curry / Aquaman, who must work with his half-brother Orm (Patrick Wilson) to prevent Black Manta (Yahya Abdul-Mateen II) from killing his family and using the cursed Black Trident to overheat the world while searching for the lost seventh kingdom of the seas. Amber Heard, Randall Park, Dolph Lundgren, Temuera Morrison, Martin Short, and Nicole Kidman also star in supporting roles.

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Four years after becoming king of Atlantis, Arthur Curry has married Mera and had a son, Arthur Jr., while splitting his life between land and sea. Meanwhile, David Kane / Black Manta continues to seek revenge against Arthur for his father's death, working with marine biologist Stephen Shin to find Atlantean artifacts. When Shin accidentally discovers a cavern in Antarctica, Manta finds a Black Trident that possesses him, its creator promising to give him the power to destroy Arthur and Atlantis.

Five months later, Manta breaks into an Orichalcum reserve on Atlantis to steal them to power his Atlantean machines that are of ancient origin but are of unknown design to modern Atlanteans. They are caught midway and chased by Atlantean forces, with Mera injured in the ensuing battle. Arthur learns that this usage of Orichalcum, which emits high quantities of greenhouse gases, has not only raised planetary temperatures and caused extreme weather and ocean acidification, but nearly caused a planetary extinction in the past when used by an ancient Atlantean kingdom. To learn where Manta is hiding, Arthur breaks his half-brother, Orm, out of prison, and they visit a pirate haven called the Sunken Citadel, meeting Kingfish to learn of Manta's whereabouts.

The information they obtain leads them to a volcanic island in the South Pacific, where they battle Manta's forces after getting themselves through flora and fauna mutated by the Orichalcum. There, Orm touches the Black Trident, which shows him visions of its provenance. Orm learns the trident was created by Kordax, the brother of King Atlan and ruler of the lost kingdom of Necrus. Kordax was imprisoned with blood magic following a failed attempt to usurp the throne. Realizing the blood of any of Atlan's descendants could release Kordax; the pair deduce Manta has kidnapped Arthur Jr. With Shin's help, the Atlanteans determine that Kordax's prison and the lost kingdom of Necrus are located in Antarctica.

In Necrus, Arthur fights Manta and is almost killed before Mera arrives and saves her husband. Manta throws the Black Trident at Mera who is taking her son to safety, but Orm catches it before it strikes her. The spirit of Kordax leaves Manta for Orm, who proceeds to fight Arthur and uses Arthur's blood to free Kordax. Arthur convinces his brother to give up his hatred for him, allowing him to destroy both Kordax and the Black Trident. With Kordax's magic vanishing, Necrus starts to collapse. Manta refuses Arthur's help and allows himself to fall into a fissure. The Atlanteans and Shin safely escape and decide that Orm has redeemed himself. Arthur and Mera plan to inform Atlantis that Orm died on the condition that he remains hidden, vacating to the surface world. Believing the unification of the underwater kingdoms and the surface world is necessary to prevent further damage to the oceans and planet, Arthur reveals Atlantis' existence through an announcement at the United Nations, declaring his intentions of making the kingdom a member state.

Rating: 10 Stars. 

Infinite, 2021 (Netflix Top 10)

Infinite is a 2021 American science fiction action film directed by Antoine Fuqua, from a screenplay written by Ian Shorr based on a story by Todd Stein (itself adapted from D. Eric Maikranz's 2009 novel The Reincarnationist Papers). The film stars Mark Wahlberg, Chiwetel Ejiofor, Sophie Cookson, Jason Mantzoukas, Rupert Friend, Toby Jones and Dylan O'Brien.

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In 1985 Mexico City, Heinrich Treadway tries to escape the authorities and a man named Bathurst. Treadway and his associates, Abel and Leona, speak about "the Egg", which Treadway stole from Bathurst. Treadway tells Abel that if he does not survive, the latter must remember to "look inside". He drives off a bridge, jumping from his car in mid-air and onto a crane 150 feet away. However, Treadway watches helplessly as Bathurst arrives and kills Abel and Leona.

In 2020 New York City, Evan McCauley suffers from schizophrenia. Because of past institutionalization and violent behavior, he cannot get a job. He forges a katana for a local gangster, even though he was never trained as a bladesmith. After the deal goes south, Evan makes his escape but is later arrested. A man at the police station introduces himself as Bathurst, claiming they have known each other for centuries.

Nora Brightman bursts into the room, and helps Evan escape. She explains that a group of 500 individuals, known as the Infinites, can remember all their past lives, divided between two groups: the Believers, including Nora, who want to make the world better, and the Nihilists, including Bathurst, who want to end the world. The Nihilists planned to prevent Infinites from being reborn by containing their souls in computer chips, and had developed an egg-shaped weapon capable of destroying all life on Earth, although Evan (Treadway's reincarnation) had stolen and hidden the egg during his past life shortly before Bathurst killed him.

Nora (Leona's reincarnation) explains that most Infinites remember their past lives around puberty, which is why Evan was diagnosed schizophrenic. Evan struggles to regain Treadway's memories as a result of trauma endured from accidents earlier in life. However, another Infinite, named the Artisan, has a machine that restores Evan's memories.

Bathurst overhears this, locates Evan's old body, and finds the egg hidden inside. Before he is able to detonate it, the Believers recover the egg, contain Bathurst's soul in a chip, and free the souls of all their comrades, including Abel's, although Evan and Nora die in the process.

Years later, Nora and Abel are reborn and they meet at the Beginning. Evan is reborn in Jakarta, Indonesia. Artisan, now older, visits him and offers a katana to the younger Evan, who regains his memories upon recognizing him.

Rating: 10 Stars