THE Assault 88 the true story is almost as wild as the actions shown in the Showtime film directed by Mehnaz Huda. Assault 88 is a 2023 crime drama starring Courtney B. Vance (ADA Ron Carver in Law and Order: Criminal Intent) as a criminal mastermind named Jeremy Horne. He can convince anyone around him to do anything he asks and decides he wants to do one last job before going to prison. This latest job is a robbery to steal almost 80 million dollars from the US banking system. The entire scheme seems almost hard to believe in a…
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The best Woody Allen all the films are mainly about peculiar people in uncomfortable situations, often reflecting on life and its idiosyncrasies. Allen is one of the most acclaimed American filmmakers in history, with a record 16 Academy Award nominations for Best Original Screenplay, while also winning four Oscars during his career. He has also been recognized by the BAFTA Awards, Golden Globe Awards, Tony Awards, Emmy Awards, and even the Grammy Awards. He also won the Golden Globe Cecil B. DeMille Award in 2014. Allen began his career as a television writer before moving into film, where he developed…
The best Rick and Morty The episodes feature self-contained stories and a few additions that really advance their overarching plot. The humor is often funny, creative, and very clever, looking at more than just pop culture references and easy-on-the-eye jokes from other adult animated shows. Instead, the attention to detail and world-building that takes place in the episodes brings jokes when viewers least expect them, and with the quirky time travel and alternate worlds, the stories are never-ending. Created by Dan Harmon, Rick Sanchez is a brilliant mad scientist who has created devices that can wreak havoc and also travel…
The best Family Guy The episodes feature tons of pop culture references, some one-liners, and more visual jokes than almost any adult animated television show airing today. Debuting in 1999, Seth Macfarlane created a hit series that survived an early cancellation and went on to become one of the longest-running animated shows on television. It features Peter Griffin and his family as they get into trouble and barely care about the consequences of their bad decisions. Fox’s hit animated series premieres its 23rd season in 2025 and shows no signs of slowing down as it continues to deliver hilarious attacks…
THE K-drama A time called you is a very complex story with an ending that may leave viewers’ heads spinning. One of the best K-dramas currently streaming on Netflix, the series begins with Jun-hee mourning the loss of her boyfriend a year after he died in a plane crash. However, she doesn’t believe he is really dead, and when she receives a recorder with the song “Gather My Tears” by Seo Ji-won, she listens and is transported back in time. The show then jumps forward to several years, focusing primarily on 1998 and 2023. Jun-hee is living the life of…
Good omens Season 3 has been greenlit by Amazon Prime Video, but the final season will be very different. Good omens is based on the novel by Neil Gaiman and Terry Pratchett and follows the angel Aziraphale (Michael Sheen) and the demon Crowley (David Tennant), who have developed a unique relationship over the centuries they spent on Earth. Instead of following the mission they were ordered to do, the pair put their differences aside to try to prevent the end of the world. Good omens Season 1 was based on the novel, and it was speculated that Season 2 was…
The best Annette Bening movies and TV shows prove that she is one of the top actresses in Hollywood history. However, she also has a disappointing fact about her career. She is one of the few actresses to receive Oscar, Emmy and Tony nominations, but has never walked away with a single win. Bening began working in theater for a Shakespeare company in the 1980s and eventually moved into film as the decade was coming to an end. Bening received his first Tony nomination before making a name for himself in films and TV shows, but when she took on…
Before it was a film, Five Nights at Freddy’s was a very successful video game inspired by a real-life tragedy. Created by Scott Cawthon, the franchise has developed almost 20 games since its launch in 2014. In 2023, Blumhouse Productions brought the story to the big screen with the film Five Nights at Freddy’sstarring John Hutcherson (The Hunger Games) as Mike Schmidt, a security guard haunted by the disappearance of his younger brother years earlier. He still has nightmares about the kidnapping, and when he gets a job at a closed pizzeria that once housed beloved animatronics who played music…
Although the film’s sequence of events seems strange, the Pain hunters the true story is equally bizarre and difficult to believe. Directed by David Yates (Situation), Pain Traffickers is a fictional retelling of the 2016 Insys Scandal, when extortion accusations were made against the company and several employees. Emily Blunt stars as Liza Drake, a single mother hired to find doctors to bribe them into prescribing a specific painkiller to their patients, which helped the company make incredible profits. Blunt plays Liza, a single mother who works as an exotic dancer to make ends meet when Peter Brenner (Chris Evans)…
Erotic films like 365 days made a big splash upon release, and the Netflix original joined a long list of films that gained attention for their steamier content. The Polish romantic drama was released on the streamer in 2020 and follows Laura Biel (Anna-Maria Sieklucka), a young woman who is kidnapped by a Sicilian mobster named Masimo (Michele Morrone) and has a year to fall in love with him. Immediately controversial for its plot 365 days gained a lot of attention and fulfilled its promise of hot romance – albeit of a more problematic nature. The film was summarily dismissed…