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Season 6 of MY LITTLE PONY: MAKE YOUR MARK on Netflix follows a group of pony friends, Sunny, Izzy, Pipp, Zipp, Hitch, and Misty. In the first three episodes, the six friends travel to the Isle of Scaly to help the dragons there. They work together to stop the evil Opaline, who’s trying to steal all the ponies’ magic and use it for herself. Opaline traps the dragons and hypnotizes them. The ponies, deprived of their magic, must use the power of friendship, as well as hope and unity, to defeat Opaline and restore magic to their world.

TALES OF THE TEENAGE MUTANT NINJA TURTLES is an animated action comedy series on Paramount+. After being welcomed as heroes by the city of New York, the four Ninja Turtles crash an after-school party. They are intercepted by Bishop, a mad scientist determined to wipe out mutants. Bishop unleashes an army of robots. They force the turtles to make a hasty retreat. The team gets separated in different parts of the city. Three of the four brothers must fend for themselves in the first three episodes. The series is set directly after the previous movie.

THE UNION is a spectacular spy movie on Netflix. Mark Wahlberg and Halle Berry play Mike and Roxy, long-separated high school sweethearts. Roxy works for a secret American spy outfit called The Union, which recruits blue collar types. Mike and Roxy team up to save the world as members of the elite agency. Roxy needs Mike’s help in stopping personal information of all of America’s law enforcement, military officers and intelligence agents from getting into the wrong hands. A string of wild and funny adventures follows.

Episode One of Season 2 of THE RINGS OF POWER on Amazon Prime starts with what happened to Sauron before he met Galadriel. After being betrayed by the orcs, he changes form and emerges as Halbrand. Then, he meets Galadriel, an immortal elf, when he’s shipwrecked. Cut to the end of Season 1. Galadriel has a disagreement with Elrond about whether the three rings of power recently acquired by the elves are tainted with Sauron’s evil. Meanwhile, the young hobbit woman, Nori, travels with the Stranger as he heads West to recover his memory.

RYAN’S WORLD THE MOVIE: TITAN UNIVERSE ADVENTURE is a comical fantasy adventure, with live action and animation. 13-year-old Ryan is a popular YouTube influencer with several programs for children. He buys a comic book from a suspicious store. Ryan gets annoyed at his younger twin sisters, Kate and Emma. He vows never to play with them again. Kate and Emma sneak into his room, where the mysterious comic book sucks them into its world. Ryan decides to leap into the comic book and rescue his sisters. He transforms into the animated superhero, Red Titan, from his YouTube videos.

MY PENGUIN FRIEND is based on the inspiring true story of a fisherman, Joao, who rescues a penguin off the coast of Brazil. Joao washes the penguin, who was caught in an oil spill, feeding it and saving its life. The penguin and the fisherman form an unlikely bond. The connection they share helps Joao heal from a heartbreaking tragedy. However, when the penguin leaves one day, Joao fears he’ll never see his friend again. Remarkably, that isn’t the end of their journey. In fact, their story becomes worldwide news.

CITY OF DREAMS is a harrowing drama about underground slave labor in the United States. A mute teenage Mexican boy named Jesús is trafficked across the border into Los Angeles. He thinks he’s going to attend a soccer camp for the local professional soccer team. However, he’s dropped off at a large rundown house where illegal immigrants, including young teenage children, are put to work in a sweatshop. Jesús doesn’t know anything about sewing, and he’s whipped. When another co-worker is severely beaten, he realizes the only way to save himself is to fight back, at the risk of his life.

YOU GOTTA BELIEVE is a sports drama based on the inspiring true story of a Little League team from Dallas, Texas who defy the odds. The movie tells the team’s journey through the eyes of Robert, the first baseman, whose father, Bobby, has terminal cancer. The boys rally around their teammate and dedicate their season to Bobby. Coach Jon begins to take coaching the boys seriously, and the team’s underdog story begins. Eventually, the team has a chance to prove themselves at the Little League World Series.

REAGAN stars Dennis Quaid as the 40th President of the United States, Ronald Reagan. It covers Reagan’s life from his childhood to his death. There’s a strong focus throughout the movie on Reagan’s lifelong fight against communism. The movie relates Reagan’s battle in the Screen Actors Guild against communist infiltration in the Hollywood unions in the late 1940s. It also details his battle against the Soviet Union’s communist tyranny in Germany and Eastern Europe. Included is Reagan’s dramatic demand that Soviet President Gorbachev tear down the Berlin Wall. In the end, Gorbachev let the people of Germany tear down the wall themselves in November 1989.

GABBY’S DOLLHOUSE is a fun children’s series on Netflix. The program centers on Gabby, who has a magical dollhouse where her animated cat friends live. In each episode, she and her friends spend time in the dollhouse, enjoying fun adventures. In the first three episodes of Season 10, Gaby and her friends celebrate Gabby’s birthday, meet a new friend and use a magic wishing well to visit unique places.