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In this week’s new movies on VOD, Mark Wahlberg finds God in Father Stu, Albus Dumbledore finds Gellert Grindelwald in Fantastic Beasts: The Secrets of Dumbledore, and a young painter flees Nazi Germany to find her true artist self in Charlotte.

In Father Stu, a film produced by and starring Mark Wahlberg, who also stars as the title character, a washed up and desperate boxer finds religion after a near-death experience. The film, based on a true story, is something of a passion project for Wahlberg, who has been working on getting it made since 2016. Fantastic Beasts: The Secrets of Dumbledore is another film that’s been in the works for years; the third film in the Fantastic Beasts franchise was mostly delayed on account of Covid-19 and the fact that the main antagonist, Gellert Grindelwald, had been previously played by Johnny Depp. (In case you hadn’t heard, Depp’s had a busy couple of years in court and had to be replaced by Mads Mikkelsen.)

And the animated film Charlotte, which is based on a true story, features the voice talents Keira Knightly as the title character, Charlotte Salomon, a German Jew coming of age at the start of World War II with a love for painting. She leaves Berlin to hide out in France and begins to train as a painter in earnest, creating a massive collection of paintings inspired by the war and her family’s vast struggles with mental illness. Though Charlotte became a victim of the Nazi genocide, her work – and a murder that was kept secret for decades – have become her legacy.

These are just a few of the titles that are available to watch on Amazon Prime Video, iTunes, YouTube, and through your cable service this week. Check out what movies are available to buy or rent on demand now!

Father Stu

Father Stu is based on the true story of Stuart Long, an amateur boxer-turned-wannabe-actor-turned priest. In the film, Mark Wahlberg plays Stu, who heads to Hollywood to find fame in The Biz after his boxing career is cut short. Stu starts courting a young woman named Carmen who is a devout Catholic, but after a horrific accident leaves him on death’s door, he feels a calling to the priesthood and decides not to be with Carmen, and instead he enters a seminary in order to be ordained as a priest. Soon diagnosed with a serious health issue that leaves him nearly paralyzed, Stu makes it his life’s work to minister to the people in his community.

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Fantastic Beasts: The Secrets Of Dumbledore

Lest you think that J.K. Rowling is not still working on account of her backward TERF-y opinions, the author of the Harry Potter series is still kicking in Hollywood, busy scripting Fantastic Beasts: The Secrets of Dumbledore, the third film in the series that serves as a prequel to Potter. In this film, Newt Scamander (Eddie Redmayne) is joined by Albus Dumbledore (Jude Law) to try and prevent the dark magic of Gellert Grindelwald from taking hold of their wizarding world. It’s hard for many Potter fans to reconcile their love for the Potterverse with the fact that it supports Rowling’s opinions, but if you can get past that, the latest Beasts film is a satisfying journey back to the magical world we came to love, once upon a time.

Where to stream Fantastic Beasts: The Secrets of Dumbledore