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Joe Neff, a beloved bar owner from Oklahoma, suddenly went missing in May 2009, leaving everyone worried. Sadly, the search for him ended with his dead body being found, marking the beginning of a homicide inquiry. Investigation Discovery’s ‘Murder Comes to Town: Say it Ain’t So’ chronicles how the authorities used old-fashioned police work to connect the killer to the murder weapon. So, let’s find out what happened then, shall we?...

SPONSORED LINKS Starring in a 1990’s TV series, ’21 Jump Street’ John Christopher Depp II better known as Johnny Depp kick started his career as teen idol. Moving on to the big screen, playing bits and parts in movies like ‘Platoon’ and the widely recognized ‘death-scene’ of ‘A Nightmare on Elm Street’; we knew he destined for something big. Considered to be one of the most distinguished actors, Johnny Depp surely is daring when it comes to choosing script....

We have all been hungry. Famished and exhausted. Ravenous at the very thought of some lip-smacking fare right in front of us. When days have seemed longer than ever, and nights don’t seem to end. We have all been hungry. But where has our hunger taken us? Has it merely troubled our rumbling tummies? Have we been mildly irritated after hours of not having partaken anything even marginally delicious? Have we imagined smells wafting across to our desperate nostrils?...

SPONSORED LINKS Belmont in New Hampshire is a typical small old mill town where everyone kind of knows everyone owing to its undeniably diminutive population and even fewer things to do around. Thus, it came as a complete shock when crime in the area jumped directly from opioid use or petty thefts to sextortion, as carefully profiled in episode 4 of Netflix’s ‘Web of Make Believe: Death, Lies and the Internet,’ entitled ‘Sextortion....

911 operators in Miami, Florida, received a frantic phone call on May 22, 2006, from Tyree Banks, who claimed that his friend, Shantay Huntington, had gone missing after stepping out of their motel. What seemed like a regular missing person case soon turned into a homicide when Shantay’s body was recovered from a wooded area the very next day. Investigation Discovery’s ‘Murder Decoded: The Cocoon’ chronicles the gruesome slaying and shows how an unrelated crime led authorities to the perpetrator....

A woman’s quest to trace the events that took place on a night she blacked out forms the crux of ‘Photocopier.’ Wregas Bhanuteja’s feature directorial debut makes use of beautifully haunting allegories to bring out the protagonist’s plight. Suryani, an ace student who loses her scholarship due to just one night of drinking, realizes that not all is as it seemed on the night of Mata Hari’s party. In fact, a play on Medusa and Perseus that gets acclaim is the reason the fateful party is thrown in the very first place....

Season 9 episode 7 of the hit drama TV series ‘When Calls the Heart’ is titled ‘Hope Valley Days Part 1’ and sees mayor Mike announcing a two-week-long holiday celebrating five festivals. As the cheer spreads through Hope Valley, Joseph and Minnie contemplate buying Abigail’s share of the café and plan for a bank loan. Lee and Rosemary’s dreams of expanding the newspaper start materializing and Faith decides to fully take charge of her career as well....

Investigation Discovery’s ‘Evil Lives Here: Locked in the Closet’ chronicles the horrifying torture Jesse Eging and his half-siblings had to endure at the hands of Alice Jenkins. While Alice tortured the children by tying them to their beds, denying them food, and even locking them in a dark closet, their mother, Mary Rowles, did nothing to get them to safety. However, things worsened when neglect turned to physical abuse, and the children were left scared for their very lives....

‘My Mom, Your Dad’ is a quirky reality TV series on HBO Max that features a group of single parents looking for a second chance at love. Nominated by their adult children, the parents move together into a house and mingle with each other. Unbeknownst to them, their children live in a house down the street and monitor their moves via hidden cameras. As the parents try to connect and form meaningful relationships, their children secretly maneuver their encounters to guide them towards the correct person....

Directed by Fred Wolf, ’40-Love’ is an entertaining sports comedy movie that follows Beek, a 22-year-old statistics genius, who embarks on a 1679 miles long road trip to New York City. In doing so, he hopes to meet and convince world-famous tennis star Lois Kuzenkova that he can help her win the upcoming championship tournament with his skills. Along the way, he is joined by a quirky artist named Casey, and together they encounter several hilarious challenges and people....

Directed by David Weaver, Hallmark’s ‘A Royal Runaway Romance’ is a romantic drama movie that centers upon Princess Amelia of Bundbury. The Princess is accompanied by her new bodyguard Grady Beck as she travels across America to explore romantic possibilities with an artist named Wes Riverton. But slowly and steadily, sparks begin to fly between Amelia and Grady instead. The movie transitions from a royal palace of Princess Amelia to the location of a bustling and crowded city as the princess decides to follow her heart....

Directed by Matthew Ross, ‘Siberia‘ is a crime thriller film that centers upon an American diamond trader named Lucas Hill, whose Russian partner, Pyotr, disappears with the blue diamonds Lucas was supposed to hand over to gangster Boris Volkov. In search of his partner, Lucas travels to Siberia but ends up getting embroiled in a love affair. With just 48 hours to find Pyotr, the diamond trader engages in a race against time....

Created by the Duffer Brothers – Matt and Ross – ‘Stranger Things’ is a science-fiction drama series set in the 1980s. The narrative revolves around a group of young friends in the small town of Hawkins, one of whom disappears out of the blue. To search for the missing boy, the young friends join forces with his mother and the town sheriff but face some horrific supernatural forces in the process....

‘Slow Horses’ introduces us to a group of disgraced (and highly entertaining) British intelligence agents who, for a variety of colorful reasons, have been relegated to the rundown MI5 branch known as Slough House. Working under the thumb of the crotchety and unapologetically unpleasant Jackson Lamb (Gary Oldman), the team is assigned the most lackluster espionage tasks imaginable. However, none seem to have it worse than Catherine Standish, who even goes so far as to describe herself as Jackson’s personal helper....

NBC’s ‘The Endgame’ is a spy drama TV series created by Jake Coburn and Nicholas Wootton. It revolves around seven bank heists in New York that are orchestrated by a criminal mastermind named Elena Federova. As she begins revealing her dangerous motives, federal agent Valerie Turner takes it upon herself to bring her down. Soon, it is discovered that both women have a past connection that impacts the present situation. As Val works to stop the heist, the mysterious personality of her nemesis also begins to unravel....

When 32-year-old Kathleen Bracken was found murdered in the Twilite Motel in Mobile, Alabama, in 1998, the police had no idea that they were dealing with a serial killer. However, witnesses soon directed authorities toward Gerald Patrick Lewis, and the ensuing investigation unraveled a sinister history of gruesome murders that seemingly stretched back to 1986. Investigation Discovery’s ‘Evil Lives Here: My Brother’s Secrets’ chronicles Gerald’s crimes and shows how an efficient police investigation finally brought him to justice....

SPONSORED LINKS Directed by Nicolai Fuglsig, ‘12 Strong’ AKA ’12 Strong: The Declassified True Story of the Horse Soldiers’ is a war film that chronicles the true story of a unit of U.S. Army Special Forces venturing into Afghanistan in the aftermath of the 9/11 attacks in 2001. The 2018 film showcases the bravery of the real-life army officers who managed to make serious inroads into Afghan territory in a bid to curtail Taliban and Al-Qaeda influence in Afghanistan....

‘365 Days’ is a series of erotic thriller films loosely based on the namesake trilogy of books by Polish author Blanka Lipińska. In the eponymous first film, Sicilian mob boss Don Massimo Torricelli (Michele Morrone) becomes obsessed with a Polish woman named Laura Biel (Anna-Maria Sieklucka). Don abducts Laura and tells her that he will make her fall in love with him in 365 days. In the sequel, titled ‘365 Days: This Day,’ Massimo and Laura get married, but their enemies succeed in sowing discord between them....

The ‘90 Day Fiancé’ on TLC features cross-border relationships where couples have 90 days to get married following their application for the K-1 visa. The show birthed a host of spin-offs, with ‘90 Day Fiancé: Before the 90 Days’ being one of them. The spin-off series specifically revolves around couples before they begin the process of applying for the K-1 visa. Through the TLC show, we see how people grow together in a relationship in spite of the distance and cultural differences....

With Steven Soderbergh in the director’s chair, the 2011 pandemic movie ‘Contagion’ bares a rational post-apocalyptic vision. After the novel MEV-1 virus outbreak, the world goes up in flames. While Mitch Emhoff struggles with the loss of his wife, the first patient of the epidemic, global health departments work to deal with the rising number of cases. Healthcare systems collapse and city streets turn into blazing nightmares. A star-studded cast ensemble featuring Jude Law, Matt Damon, Laurence Fishburne, Kate Winslet, Gwyneth Paltrow, and Marion Cotillard brings the drama to life....