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While President Trump pardons known criminals and revokes executive orders for police accountability, thousands of innocent men and women have spent decades behind bars, framed by police - but no-one was listening.

Clockwork Films are partnering with Chalk & Blade ( Hunting Ghislane; Madmans Hotel: Audible ) on a thrilling new true crime series with iHeartPodcasts that pulls back the curtain on the false confession capital of America – Chicago.

The gripping 10-part series will tell the story of both a harrowing murder investigation, a corrupt police department and a tale of friendship that rivals The Shawshank Redemption.

“At Chalk + Blade we revel in stories that poke at stigmatising themes and challenge the status quo , this project was a clear perfect match for us. " says Ruth Barnes Founder and Creative Director.

“It is fantastic to be partnering with Chalk and Blade and iHeart to tell a story I have been obsessed with for years.

The first Bad Boys: Ride or Die reactions are in, revealing what viewers think of the fourth entry in the Will Smith-Martin Lawrence action franchise.

After its first public screenings, reactions to Bad Boys: Ride or Die have hit social media. Check out some of them below:

Bad Boys: Ride or Die is phenomenal.I love the Bad Boys franchise. This one raised every bar. Its nonstop hilarious. Innovative action beats. So much chemistry with Will Smith and Martin Lawrence.The best time Ive had at the movies in a while. Absolutely loved it. pic.twitter.com/VgqJSwu1k0 Bd (@BrandonDavisBD) May 16, 2024 bad boys ride or die is a delight Ryan Gajewski (@_RyanGajewski) May 16, 2024 #BadBoysRideOrDie is a total blast.Will Smith and Martin Lawrence are still great at busting each others' balls, the new mystery is compelling (Eric Dane is a great baddie) and Adil & Bilall's action sequences...

Bad Boys: Ride or Die, the fourth film in Sony’s action franchise starring Will Smith and Martin Lawrence, had its first public screenings Wednesday night, and the first reactions have already hit social media.

At a fan screening at AMC The Grove 14 in Los Angeles, Smith and Lawrence made a surprise appearance. There were also screenings in Atlanta, Chicago, Houston, Miami, New York, Philadelphia and Washington, D.C.

The plot to Bad Boys 4 is driven by corruption within the Miami Pd, with Captain Conrad Howard (Joe Pantoliano) accused of working with the drug cartels for years. Detectives Mike Lowrey (Smith) and Marcus Burnett (Lawrence) put together a team to clear Howard’s name but become outlaws in the process.

The cast also includes Vanessa Hudgens, Alexander Ludwig, Paola Núñez, Eric Dane and Welsh actor Ioan Gruffudd. Franchise regulars Joe Pantoliano as Captain Conrad Howard and John Salley as Fletcher also return.

With a dour acoustic guitar line that recalls David Bowie, Pink Floyd, and, of course, Portishead, Beth Gibbons assumes full doomsayer mode to remind you, “Forever ends, you will grow old,” on “Lost Changes.” The single is the last to arrive ahead of the Portishead frontwoman’s solo debut, Lives Outgrown, which comes out Friday.

Fortuitously for everyone who listens, Gibbons already warned us the affair would be bleak, since she made the album as she came to terms with the deaths of close friends and family. “I realized what...

Beth Gibbons’s first official solo effort, Lives Outgrown, picks up where Portishead’s 2008 album, Third, left off, with detail-rich orchestral chamber pop backing a stunning exploration of aging and grief. The singer’s existential fears about time’s creep and holding onto once-vibrant emotions and connections is as captivating as it is devastating.

Across the album’s 10 songs, Gibbons swims against life’s currents. Musically and thematically, she actively resists the dulling of sensation that, she suggests, comes with age: “I used to feel the feelings,” she sings on the unsettling “Burden of Life.” This song, like the album’s closer, “Whispering Love,” takes the perspective of someone reminiscing about a cozy summer, but they seem to be reflecting from a frigid, unforgiving place in life.

That tension is palpable throughout Lives Outgrown. Gibbons’s feelings about mortality—“Gone too far to rewind…We all know what’s coming,...

If you’ve just finished the movie and are asking yourself if Novakovic’s Bloodline Killer is a slasher or a horror, it’s not. Don’t let the Google search or the makers fool you; it doesn’t even qualify to be called a thriller either. Shawnee Smith plays Moira Cole, who is trying to save her family from her obsessive cousin, and you thought family gatherings weren’t fun without the cousins?

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On the night of Halloween, a joyful Dillon Cole dresses up as Dracula for the little kids in his neighborhood. While distributing candy to little trick-or-treaters, he’s also trying to humor his son, Connor, who’s trying to focus on studying. Connor wonders where his dad went when he doesn’t return from the porch for a long time, and he finds his father in the yard while...

Subscribers of BritBox, the U.K.-backed streaming service, got the worst kind of surprise on Friday when their monthly fee was increased by more than $750.

A small percentage of BritBox subscribers in the U.S. and Australia were accidently overcharged for their monthly fee, which is usually $6.99 a month. They were instead billed a whopping $757.

“We are aware that a small percentage (a fraction of 1%) of our subscribers in the United States and Australia experienced an overcharge by our billing vendor yesterday," BritBox said in a statement. "We took immediate action to correct the mistake by contacting all affected BritBox subscribers and issuing them refunds. The underlying cause has been resolved, however, this is an unacceptable experience and we deeply regret the disruption this has caused some of our subscribers.”

A rep for BritBox added that less than 5,000 people were ultimately affected.

The company was besieged by angry customers...

Customers of streaming service BritBox, which specializes in British content, couldn’t keep calm and carry on after receiving an eye-watering monthly bill nearing $800.

Paul Sonnenberg subscribes to BritBox for his teenage daughter, who is “really into British television.” The monthly fee for the BBC and ITV-backed streamer, which launched in the U.S. in 2017, is $6.99 per month. But for July, Sonnenberg was charged $757.

The Austin, Texas-based paralegal got a shock to the system on Wednesday when his wife said their bank called to notify the couple that their account was overdrawn, with a $757 charge from BritBox.

“I texted [my daughter] and asked if she was doing anything special with BritBox,” jokes Sonnenberg. “I wasn’t sure if she’d maybe downloaded every series of ‘The Last of the Summer Wine.’ There are, like, 30 series. Maybe she bought the whole show?”

But after immediately calling customer support, the 61-year-old was informed...