‘Our Beloved Summer’ is a South Korean romantic comedy series that follows ex-lovers — Choi Ung (Choi Woo-shik) and Kook Yeon-soo (Kim Da-mi) — who are brought together by fate after a documentary they shot ten years back in high school goes viral. Despite promising never to meet again, they are bound to face each other, which in turn leads to complicated feelings. Upon its release in 2021, the endearing feel-good tale touched people’s hearts....
Little did people in Arden, North Carolina, know that a dispute over a trashcan would explode into a gruesome murder enough to shock the city into silence. Yet, that is precisely what happened when Robert and Genise Matheson were found shot dead outside their residence. Investigation Discovery’s ‘Fear Thy Neighbor: Desperate Times, Deadly Measures’ chronicles the brutal murder and shows how the ensuing investigation brought the perpetrator to justice. If you want to know more about the case and where the murderer is today, we have you covered!...
Based on Walter Mosley’s eponymous novel, Apple TV+’s drama series ‘The Last Days of Ptolemy Grey’ centers around Ptolemy Grey, a 91-year-old man suffering from dementia. He is under the care of his great-nephew named Reggie, who gets killed under mysterious circumstances. Reggie’s death leaves Grey helpless, until Robyn, the daughter of a family friend, becomes his new caretaker. Before his death, Reggie directs Grey to a doctor who can possibly help him regain his memory....
The seventh episode of HBO Max’s crime series ‘The Staircase,’ titled ‘Seek and Ye Shall,’ begins with David Rudolf trying to convince Michael Peterson to enter an Alford plea. North Carolina Project for Actual Innocence, an organization that deals with wrongful convictions, investigates several SBI reports. The credibility of SBI analyst Duane Deaver and his testimony in Michael’s trial gets questioned when Evelyn Ivins digs deep into the analyst’s misleading findings....
Residents of Warwick, Rhode Island, were left stunned when Vickie Cushman’s gruesome murder came to light on August 11, 1989. As Vickie had not turned up for work, her co-workers went over to her house, found the front door open, and discovered the shocking murder scene inside. Investigation Discovery’s ‘Scorned: Love Kills: Blunt Force Drama’ chronicles the horrifying incident and shows how an innocent man was jailed for the crime until the actual killer confessed....
By 1991, it seemed like Virginia Larzelere’s life was going quite well. She was married to a successful dentist and had been working at his office. The mother-of-four seemed to have it all, only for everything to disappear after one fateful incident. Investigation Discovery’s ‘Deadly Affairs: Betrayed By Love: Taking A Swing at Murder’ focuses on two cases, with Virginia’s story being one of them. The authorities eventually found out that she conspired to kill her husband....
In the Oscar season of 2015, I decided to watch all the nominated movies. It was a great line-up and a great experience watching them all. Consisting of ‘American Sniper’, ‘Boyhood’, ‘The Imitation Game’, ‘Whiplash’, ‘Birdman’, ‘The Theory of Everything’, ‘Selma’ and ‘The Grand Budapest Hotel’; it is one of the best nominee lists in my opinion. While all of those movies were incredible, one of them opened my eyes wider than the others....
‘Joe vs. Carole’ is a show about a bitter feud between two larger-than-life individuals — Joseph Allen Maldonado-Passage (née Schreibvogel) or Joe Exotic (John Cameron Mitchell) and Carole Baskin (Kate McKinnon). It also delves deep into the lives of these two individuals, exploring their past and what made them who they are. Carole has been married three times in her life. Michael Murdock is her first husband. Here is what happened to him....
As the founder of Hillsong Church, Brian Houston has been a well-known figure within the Pentecostal Christian community. The organization has grown by leaps and bounds since its inception in 1983, with Brian’s marketing skills providing a big boost. Investigation Discovery’s ‘Hillsong: A Megachurch Exposed’ features interviews from former church members, charting its rise and the controversies that have followed it along the way. The organization has since become a multimillion-dollar enterprise, with Brian at the helm until recently....
‘The Dropout’ tells the story of Elizabeth Holmes, as she drops out of Stanford and becomes the founder of Theranos, a biotech startup company. Theranos gathers plenty of investments and media recognition. However, the company starts to crumble after facing numerous hurdles in perfecting its technology. The series also highlights the various facets of Holmes’ personality that allowed her to make her way to the very top and become one of the most influential entrepreneurs of her generation....
Created by Chuck MacLean, Showtime’s ‘City on a Hill‘ is a riveting drama series that revolves around John “Jackie” Rohr (Kevin Bacon), an unscrupulous F.B.I. agent, and DeCourcy Ward (Aldis Hodge), an idealist assistant district attorney. In the first season, Ward realizes who Jackie truly is but is forced to join forces with him to take down a notorious group of criminals robbing armored trucks. In later seasons, the story expands, encompassing drug trade, institutional racism, and battling the elite class....
‘As We See It’ is a comedy-drama TV series that speaks about a sensitive topic with a touch of humor. Created by Jason Katims, it revolves around three roommates — Jack, Violet, and Harrison — who are on the autism spectrum. The series documents the trio’s efforts with gaining independence while managing their jobs, friendships, and love lives. Jack works at a computer job but is highly reliant on his father, Lou, who feels that his son needs to improve his social skills....
HGTV’s ‘Flip to a Million’ is a home improvement reality series that highlights the fact that even the simplest of properties with limited resources can be turned into an expensive and profitable real-estate deal with the right strategy and skillset. The show follows two couples, Jason and EJ Williams and Jon and Dani Wrobel, each with experience and expertise in the house flipping industry in their respective cities, getting dropped in a new city with a starting budget of just $1,000....
The period drama TV series ‘Gentleman Jack‘ is based on the life of English diarist and landowner Anne Lister. Adapted for the small screen by Sally Wainwright, it documents Anne’s equations with her family and Halifax society as well as the revolutionary work she does as a 19th Century female entrepreneur. Not just that, it delves into her unabashed romantic relationships with various women throughout her life, especially her marriage to fellow landowner Ann Walker....
Richard Linklater’s ‘Apollo 10½: A Space Age Childhood’ is set against the backdrop of the 1969 Apollo 11 Moon landing and revolves around a boy named Stan or Stanley (Milo Coy). Like many adults in his neighborhood, his father works at NASA. Stan, an elementary school student, has no shortage of imagination. As the day of the historic launch approaches, he envisions himself being approached by two NASA officials and asked to be the astronaut on the extremely covert Apollo 10½ Mission....
SPONSORED LINKS 10. The Fault in Our Stars (2014) Talk about a movie that makes you ugly cry. The story of two terminally ill adolescents who fall in love with each other could have gone anywhere, mostly in wrong places, but Shailene Woodley ensures that the heart of the film remains at where it’s supposed to — as imagined by Green and the screenwriters. It rarely happens that a film so intentionally sentimental actually achieves its purpose....
SPONSORED LINKS 10. The Pelican Brief (1993) Based on a political thriller by renowned writer, John Grisham, and directed by Alan J. Pakula, ‘The Pelican Brief’ brought two powerhouse performers, Julia Roberts and Denzel Washington together for the first time. The film revolves around a brief written by a young law student, ‘Darby Shaw’ (Julia Roberts) about the murders of two Supreme Court judges and the deep trouble she lands herself into, for making that brief way more accurate than she ever knew she did....
SPONSORED LINKS Time flows with the ease of change. The change which time bears may yield a fruitful delicacy or make you travel through an eccentric Pandora’s box. A kid who has passed out from school joins college with the ambition to succeed in life. It is one of the most challenging phases in a person’s life. For this article purposes, I have assumed that a college student is not only the one who is studying in an actual college, but also one who has entered into a new phase in his/her life, regardless of the age....
SPONSORED LINKS Netflix’s ‘The Ultimatum‘ is a reality dating show that features real-life couples at crossroads. Each pair has a partner that wants to be married soon and the other who is reluctant to do so. The show gives them a last chance to test their relationships. In the first week of the season, all the couples get to know each other. They then pair up with someone else and explore their new relationship and old feelings....
SPONSORED LINKS Among all the Canadian TV shows which have released in this decade, hardly any other series can match up to the popularity and the critical acclaim that ‘Schitt’s Creek’ has received. There have been so many sitcoms made since the invention of the format, and so it is very difficult to stand out when you’re venturing into this territory. The writing and the humor really need to be top-notch and different from all the other sitcoms if such a series is to leave an impression on the audiences....
