THUMP. THUMP. THUMP. A clean, crisp signal cuts through the static and noise of space. When you've spent years listening to the sounds of the cosmos, you get used to hearing weirdness, but Mike Webster knows this is no ordinary signal. It's not a pulsar or a black hole, it's not interference, it's something different, something logical, something with purpose. As part of a three man astronomy team crammed into a car kitted out with all manner of stellar studying equipment, Mike is reluctant to jump to grand conclusions about his little discovery, and secretly transmits a response to the signal. Pointless, he knows, even if it was from intelligent life, it'd take thousands of years for his response to reach them and thousands more for them to reply. But when he does receive a response just hours later, his scientific understanding and that of his fellow hobbyists, is shaken. Could this be genuine? Is there more to decipher from the message? How could a reply come so quickly? Before ...
Barbi, a famous fitness selfie queen, is lost in the wilderness after her first date with a cute guy goes horribly wrong. Lost without cell service, supplies or survival skills, she begins a harrowing journey back to civilization with her face buried in her phone. Distracted by selfies, she misses a huge alien mothership shooting down a Homeland Security airplane. Now, as surviving agents counter attack on the ground to protect their top secret mission, Barbi meets Agent Radcliffe, Earth's last hope. Through a series of misadventures, Barbi realizes that she must change her ways to become a better person. She faces her fear of losing fame and saves the world from the alien invasion. #thestruggleisreal.
A young man troubled by his past finds comfort playing basketball alone, until a persistent homeless man claiming a love for basketball disrupts his summer. Teaming up they take on street games for cash and their unlikely friendship develops both on and off the court. He discovers answers to his past both touching and tragic, as basketball becomes more than a game.
