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Stars: Jason Tremblay, Jaime M. Callica, Bruce Crawford, Gigi Saul Guerrero, Peter Bundic, Michael Eklund, Fletcher Donovan, Donna Benadicto | Written by Jordan Robinson | Directed by Nicholas Humphries

A trap house, I remember when they were called crack houses, is a house used for making and selling drugs. In the new Tubi Original of the same name director Nicholas Humphries and writer Jordan Robinson take the name literally and give us a drug den filled with lethal booby traps and a few other surprises.

After Commander Meeks’ attempt to take down a trap house goes lethally wrong, Detective Grant Pierce is called to the crime scene. As one of the other detectives snickers about one of the junkies getting their head blown clean off, Pierce realizes the dead boy is his younger brother.

He’s just the latest in a series of deaths related to a constantly moving operation run by Lethan the meth cook,...

Exclusive: Patrick Sabongui (Homeland) and Brendan Taylor (Supernatural) are set to recur opposite Katherine Heigel and Sarah Chalke in Netflix’s upcoming drama series Firefly Lane, based on the bestselling novel by Kristin Hannah.

Written and executive produced by Maggie Friedman, who also serves as showrunner, Firefly Lane is the sweeping story of two inseparable best friends and their enduring, complicated bond, spanning four tumultuous decades.

Firefly Lane follows the story of Kate (Chalke) and Tully’s (Heigl) enduring friendship from their teen years through their 40s — as they weather career ups and downs, love triangles, marriage and divorce, and countless dramas along with way. Throughout their lives, the one constant they have is each other: partners in crime, platonic soulmates, always up for their next adventure.

Sabongui plays Chad Wiley, a former journalist, now a college professor, who falls into a forbidden relationship with Tully Hart (Heigl), a promising...

Earlier this week we shared a fantastic looking trailer for Charlotte's Song, a new re-imagining of Hans Christian Andersen's "The Little Mermaid." Set during the great depression, the film centers on a family who survives by putting on song-and-dance numbers for the locals. When the matriarch of the family dies, the family business takes a downward spiral until a gangster arrives, offering to save the women – for a price.

I had a chance to speak with one of the movie's producers, Jessica Leigh Clark-Bojin, one half of Done Four Productions, and we talked about the genesis of Done Four, producing and co-directing the movie, the collaborative p [Continued ...]...

Every year, one of the most buzzed about programs at Viff is "Must See BC" which highlights locally made projects and considering how many productions, both TV and film, call Vancouver home, the quality of these tends to be good but even by that standard, Charlotte's Song looks particularly impressive.

A project tightly produced by Jessica Leigh Clark-Bojin and Lindsey Mann of Done Four Productions, screen writer Robert Woolsey and director Nicholas Humphries (of "Riese: The Series" and The Little Mermaid fame), [Continued ...]...