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The Brits made a true crime flick, The Tinder Swindler (2022), directed by Felicity Morris and released on Netflix. An Israeli, Shimon Hayut, went around Europe posing as the son of Russian-Israeli diamond tycoon Lev Leviev aka the Diamond King. Using dating app Tinder under the alias Simon Leviev, he fooled women into giving him money that he never returned. He dazzled them with extravagant gifts and took them on fancy private jet dinners funded by other unsuspecting victims. He then claimed to be in danger from his “enemies”, sending identical messages and photos to each woman, claiming he had narrowly ...

Moonfall (2022), a science fiction disaster film, is the result of collaboration between writer, director, and producer Roland Emmerich. In 2011, astronauts Brian Harper and Jocinda Fowler are repairing a satellite during a Space Shuttle mission when a strange black swarm attacks their orbiter. The swarm kills one of their crewmates and leaves Fowler incapacitated. Despite Harper’s account of the event, which he stands by for eighteen months, his explanation is not believed and he is ultimately fired due to alleged human error. A decade later, K.C. Houseman, who holds the belief that the Moon is an artificial ...

Midway (2019) is a war film that depicts the crucial Battle of Midway, which marked a turning point in the Pacific Theater during World War II. In December 1937, American naval attaché intelligence officer Lieutenant Commander Edwin T. Layton receives a warning from Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto during a state function. The Japanese leader emphasizes that their country’s dependence on imported oil means they would be forced to declare war if the US were to threaten their supply. And so it happens on December 7, 1941, when Japan launches a surprise attack on Pearl Harbor after the US cuts off their oil supply. In response to this act of aggression, Lieutenant Richard ...