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Lifetime: Television for (Christian) Women.

The female-focused cable channel has a new Saturday-night movies slate “centered on women facing unfathomable circumstances who use their faith to lead them through,” according to Lifetime. The four films on tap will star Chrissy Metz (This Is Us), Alexa PenaVega (Spy Kids), Kat Graham (The Vampire Diaries) and Paula Patton (Precious), respectively.

Faith in the Flames: The Nichole Jolly Story (July 19) is based on the true story of the devastating 2018 fire that ripped through Paradise, California; it stars Metz in the title role of hero nurse Jolly.

The following week (July 26) is PenaVega’s turn in Before Your Father Finds Us, the story of a woman who “must draw on her faith to hide her and her teen daughter from her violent ex-husband.” It’s a very Lifetime scenario.

On August 2, Graham’s adaptation of Terri Blackstock’s Christian suspense book Terri Blackstock’s If I Run premieres.

"Pushed, provoked and desperate she will do anything to get her family back." Netflix has revealed the full-length official trailer for a series called Unseen from South Africa. Available to stream worldwide later in March. Who is Zenzi Mwale? Netflix's new six-part crime thriller Unseen narrates the story of a nondescript domestic worker who goes on a desperate search for her missing husband, and along the way she comes up against powerful and violent criminals. Her reaction to the immense and immediate danger she faces is not as timid as she seems. Starring Gail Mabalane as Zenzi Mwale, the series includes an impressive list of South African actors such as Rapulana Seiphemo, Vuyo Dabula, Colin Moss, Shimmy Isaacs, and Dineo Langa. This looks like it might be a good series, though the music choice for this trailer is a bit odd considering the dark mood and intensity of everything happening.

Warrior is adding 10 new faces in recurring roles for the upcoming third season. Telly Leung, Kevin Otto, Adam Rayner, Nick Cordileone, Dominique Maher, Neels Claasen, Sean Marco, Jazzara Jaslyn, Colin Moss, and Sizo Mahlangu are all joining the crime drama. Warrior has moved to HBO Max after two seasons on Cinemax.

Starring Andrew Koji, Kieran Bew, Celine Buckens, Olivia Cheng, Dianne Doan, Dean Jagger, Langley Kirkwood, Hoon Lee, Christian McKay, Dustin Nguyen, Joe Taslim, Chen Tang, Jason Tobin, Miranda Raison, Joanna Vanderham, Tom Weston-Jones, and Perry Yung, the series follows the life of a Chinese immigrant after he moves to San Francisco during the 1870s.

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Exclusive: The HBO Max series Warrior is adding 10 actors to the cast of Warrior for the show’s third season, including Telly Leung, Kevin Otto & Adam Rayner in recurring roles.

The full list and character descriptions from the streamer can be found below.

Telly Leung as Marcel, a nomadic Chinese nightclub singer, working on the Barbary Coast; Kevin Otto as Horace Clark, Bill’s (Kieran Bew) condescending brother-in-law and owner of a successful cement factory; Adam Rayner as Douglas Strickland III, a ruthless railroad baron and an old friend of Nellie’s husband; Nick Cordileone as Edmund Mosely, a Secret Service agent who comes to San Francisco to pursue an important case.

Dominique Maher as Catherine Archer, a political booster who takes an interest in Mayor Buckley; Neels Claasen as Benjamin Atwood, the newly-appointed Chief of the San Francisco Police; Sean Marco as Stewart Gumm, Mayor Buckley’s conniving right-hand...

Thin characterisation and a superficial critique of wealth inequality post-apartheid keep Uga Carlini’s fiction in first gear

The colourful opening of Uga Carlini’s Angeliena suggests a giddy ride awaits: the camera follows a suitcase plastered with travel stickers moving along a conveyor belt at an airport. But such vibrant detail only points up the film’s lack of emotional substance. A parking attendant for a posh hospital in South Africa, Angeliena (Euodia Samson) dreams of travelling the world, she adorns her little shack with tourist posters from faraway lands. At work, Angeliena brings a glow to the austere parking lot, pinning red roses that she grows herself to the windscreen wipers of fancy SUVs.

Such sweet-natured actions are presumably intended to endear Angeliena to us, yet reduce her to a unidimensional worker with a heart of gold. The thinness of the characterisation is made more pronounced by the...

"Vagrant Queen", the Cape Town, South Africa filmed live-action science fiction TV series, adapting Vault Comics 6-issue title has been canceled by Syfy:

Created by Jem Garrard, the series starred Adriyan Rae, Alex McGregor and Colin Moss.

"...'Vagrant Queen' follows 'Elida' from child queen to orphaned outcast, as she scavenges the treacherous corners of the galaxy, always one step ahead of a government out to extinguish her bloodline.

"When her old friend 'Isaac' shows up claiming her mother 'Xevelyn' is still alive, they head off with their new ally, 'Amae'...

"...to stage a rescue that will take her back into the perilous heart of her former kingdom and up against a deadly foe from her childhood, 'Commander Lazaro'..."

Click the images to enlarge and Sneak Peek "Vagrant Queen"...

Vault Comics 6-issue title"Vagrant Queen" has been adapted into a live-action TV series, created by Jem Garrard, starring Adriyan Rae, Alex McGregor and Colin Moss, airing March 27, 2020 on Syfy:

"...the series follows 'Elida' from child queen to orphaned outcast, as she scavenges the treacherous corners of the galaxy, always one step ahead of a government out to extinguish her bloodline.

"When her old friend 'Isaac' shows up claiming her mother 'Xevelyn' is still alive, they head off with their new ally, 'Amae'...

"...to stage a rescue that will take her back into the perilous heart of her former kingdom and up against a deadly foe from her childhood, 'Commander Lazaro'..."

Click the images to enlarge and Sneak Peek "Vagrant Queen"...

Vault Comics 6-issue title"Vagrant Queen" has been adapted into a live-action TV series, created by Jem Garrard, starring Adriyan Rae, Alex McGregor and Colin Moss, airing March 27, 2020 on Syfy:

"...the series follows 'Elida' from child queen to orphaned outcast, as she scavenges the treacherous corners of the galaxy, always one step ahead of a government out to extinguish her bloodline. When her old friend 'Isaac' shows up claiming her mother 'Xevelyn' is still alive, they head off with their new ally, 'Amae', to stage a rescue that will take her back into the perilous heart of her former kingdom and up against a deadly foe from her childhood, 'Commander Lazaro'..."

Click the images to enlarge and Sneak Peek "Vagrant Queen"...

"If I have learned anything, it's to not get too attached." Netflix has released the official trailer for a cute, cheesy holiday romantic comedy titled Holiday in the Wild - available to watch at the end of this month. Formerly known as Christmas in the Wild, but we all know anything will sell better when you only say "holiday" instead of "Christmas" and don't offend anyone. Right. Kristin Davis plays Kate, a woman who almost cancels her adventurous African honeymoon when her husband splits. Once she has touched down in Africa, however, she gets a second chance at romance with Derek, a pilot caring for rescued elephants. Also starring Rob Lowe, with John Owen Lowe, Colin Moss, Thandi Puren, and Lynita Crofford. This looks like one of those super campy Hallmark romance movies they churn out, but this one is from Netflix. Here's the first trailer (+ poster) for Ernie Barbarash's Holiday in the Wild,...

The premise behind Then Came You is a tough sell. A hypochondriac attends a support group for people dying of cancer, befriends one said person, and helps her fulfill a demented bucket list while allowing her lack of boundaries to shove him into the arms of the woman he’s been too afraid to ask out. It’s a sort of rom-com spin on Fight Club‘s Jack and Marla getting off on others’ sorrow for the tween sect. There will be initial confusion at the film turning an incurable disease cutesy, disdain for its apparent use of death as an opportunistic avenue towards confidence, and revulsion in thinking the filmmakers might turn the tables and have their lead fall for the wildly eccentric girl who’ll be dead by the end.

Here’s the thing, though. While director Peter Hutchings and writer Fergal Rock have very much delivered the material that allows this weariness,...