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Hosted by Antoni Porowski, Netflix’s ‘Easy-Bake Battle: The Home Cooking Competition,’ AKA ‘Easy-Bake Battle,’ is a baking series that focuses on tips and tricks used by home cooks. In each episode, three participants must go through two challenges to claim the title of Easy-Bake Champion. The winner gets to keep $25,000 and has a chance to return and defend their title against other participants and win even more money. From its light-hearted atmosphere to several valuable tips and tricks, the Netflix show has something for everyone....

Also known as ‘Christmas in the Highlands,’ Lifetime’s ‘Christmas at the Castle’ is a royal-themed romantic movie that adds extra magic to Christmastime romance. Blaire Henderson is a perfume expert who is sent to Scotland to find a rare fragrance. When she does find the dashing license owner of the perfume, Alistair McGregor, the issue is that he is not willing to sell. Run out of options, Blaire decides to pose as a documentary filmmaker to learn the secret formula of the perfume....

Based on Charles Dickens’ 1843 novella ‘A Christmas Carol,’ Apple TV+’s ‘Spirited’ is a Christmas fantasy comedy movie co-written and directed by Sean Anders. It revolves around the Ghost of Christmas Present and a miserly man named Clint Briggs. Every year on Christmas Eve, the former chooses to reform one dark soul with his powers; this year, it is the latter’s turn. Clint is full of himself and selfishness. So, to reform his personality, Present takes him on an adventurous journey through time — past, present, and future....

‘You Should Have Left’ is a psychological thriller that is creepily timely in the world locked down due to a deadly pandemic. It tells the story of a person who gets trapped in a house and no matter how hard he tries, he can’t escape it. The film plays with this idea of confinement in a way that makes us reconsider our surroundings and contemplate the situation that landed us in a specific place....

Peacock’s ‘Casey Anthony: Where The Truth Lies’ chronicles how Casey Anthony took over a month to report her daughter Caylee missing after she disappeared from her Orlando, Florida, home in June 2008. Although, when she informed the police about the incident, the single mother claimed her 2-year-old was with “Zanny the nanny” when she disappeared. This person later turned out to be Zenaida Gonzalez, who was introduced into the case as the child’s babysitter....

Netflix’s ‘Bank Robbers: The Last Great Heist’ is a documentary that can only be described as equal parts gripping and baffling owing to its examination of an Argentinian coup unlike any other. After all, it details the notorious Friday the 13th, January 2006 looting of a Bank Rio branch in Acassuso, San Isidro, through unfiltered first-hand accounts of the proud perpetrators themselves. Among them was Rubén Alberto “Beto” De la Torre (also known as The Thug) — so now, if you wish to learn more about him as well as his overall standing these days, we’ve got you covered....

SPONSORED LINKS Norse mythology rampantly entered popular culture after MCU made a series of films based on characters from the same, with the most popular one being Thor, played by Chris Hemsworth. While the MCU films mainly deal with the Norse gods, the Netflix series ‘Ragnarok’ uses Norse legends as a backdrop for its teen fantasy story. The series is set in a town called Edda, where the arrival of two teenage brothers has become a major talking point for the adults....

SPONSORED LINKS 8. Titanic (1997) One of the most popular films set on a ship, this romantic disaster film by James Cameron took home several Academy Awards and was a major box-office and critical success. Starring Leonardo DiCaprio and Kate Winslet in the lead, it follows the two as they fall in love on the doomed maiden voyage of the RMS Titanic, which sank in 1912. Cameron was inspired to make the film after he saw footage of the wreck of the real Titanic....

A brutal triple murder at a house in November 2000 left the victims’ loved ones to pick up the pieces. On that fateful night, Deandra Buchanan killed three people dear to him, including the mother of his children. Netflix’s ‘I am a Killer: A Family Affair’ focuses on the time leading up to the murders of Angela Brown, Juanita Hoffman, and William Jefferson and the reason behind why the bloodbath took place....

The Netflix romantic-comedy film ‘Christmas With You’ is directed by Gabriela Tagliavini and based on a story by producer German Michael Torres. It stars Aimee Garcia and Freddie Prinze Jr in the lead roles. The film tells the story of a famous singer Angelina who meets music teacher Miguel, leading to an exciting romance between them. Angelina spends time in Miguel’s Latin American household and bonds with his family while the duo works on a new Christmas song to revive Angelina’s career....

As a series that tricks a group of singles into thinking they’re on a wild and steamy dating show only to soon be given strict rules of celibacy, Netflix’s ‘Too Hot to Handle’ is truly unlike any other. After all, it allows the cast to build deep, emotional, genuine connections without the freedom of pure physical touch to help them find not just their potential life partner but also their real selves....

A seemingly ordinary night off the Northern Arizona University campus in Flagstaff, Coconino County in 2015, soon devolved into a chaotic sequence of events that ended with one dead and three others injured. Colin Brough, a junior at the university, was killed in what was believed to be a scuffle. ABC News’ ‘20/20: A Chance Encounter’ focuses on the legal proceedings after that and how the prosecution and the defense framed their cases....

BBC’s ‘Inside Man‘ is a mini-series about a convict named Grieff, who is on death row in the US for murdering his wife. As an ex-professor of criminology, the man solves cases that match a specific criterion. Directed by Paul McGuigan, the crime-drama show portrays how Grieff uses his keen observation, research skills, and a few logical assumptions to solve people’s problems. Over the course of the four episodes, we see him work on three major cases, of which the first is particularly interesting....

Andrea Di Stefano’s ‘The Informer‘ is a gripping crime drama that dives right into the dizzying depths of New York’s dark underbelly. The film centers around an undercover informant who is caught in the gritty underworld of Polish Mafia in the city, and is under threat of being exposed as a mule. While the film’s premise may lack originality, it serves as an effective genre film especially with the unsettling tension it builds with its assorted narratives....

Created by Tim Burton, Alfred Gough, and Miles Millar, ‘Wednesday’ is a Netflix coming-of-age fantasy mystery series. It is based on the characters developed by American cartoonist Charles Addams. The story follows Wednesday Addams (Jenna Ortega) as her parents enroll her at Nevermore Academy, the boarding school they both attended when they were younger, after attempts to educate their daughter at an ordinary school fails. Nevermore is a special place where all the students and most of the teachers are outcasts — people with special abilities that set them apart from the rest of humanity or the normies....

Directed by Aaron Moorhead and Justin Benson, ‘Something in the Dirt’ follows Levi Danube, a bartender who recently moved to a Los Angeles apartment complex. Levi meets John Daniels, a freelance wedding photographer who helps the former settle in his new apartment. Their life takes a wild turn when both of them start to notice supernatural occurrences happening in Levi’s apartment. Starring Moorhead as Daniels and Benson as Levi, the science-fiction horror film progresses through the two neighbor’s attempts to unravel the mystery behind the strange happenings....

The twentieth season of CBS’ thriller series ‘NCIS’ follows Jimmy Palmer’s efforts to build a relationship with his colleague Jessica Knight. As a couple who has just started to share their lives, Jimmy and Jessica try to overcome the awkwardness that revolves around sharing the same workspace. The fourth episode of the season depicts Jimmy’s successful efforts to deal with the presence of Jessica’s ex-boyfriend. As they captivate fans’ hearts, one must be wondering what really happened to Breena Palmer, Jimmy’s wife....

When some members of the Delta Chi fraternity at Northern Arizona University got into an altercation with Simga Chi members, they had no idea of the bloodbath that was about to follow. The conflict soon spiraled into a tragic shooting incident in which 20-year-old Colin Brough lost his life while his friends, Nicholas Piring, Nicholas Prato, and Kyle Zientek, were critically injured. ABC’s ’20/20: A Chance Encounter’ recounts the horrific shooting and portrays how law enforcement officials finally brought the perpetrator, Steven “Steve” Jones, to justice....

Investigation Discovery’s ‘Deadly Women: Jilted and Jealous’ follows the murder of Donald Foster by Jean Sinclair in January 1963 in Salt Lake City, Utah. She killed the erstwhile lover of the woman she allegedly loved and was sentenced to life in prison after being convicted of the slaying. Are you interested and want to know more about Jean? Let’s find out then. Who is Jean Sinclair? Isabelle Geraldine Sinclair was born on May 28, 1917, to Peter Lamond Sinclair and Ollie Jennie Hooker Sinclair....

‘Ju-On’ (better known as ‘The Grudge’ in the West) is one of the most popular horror franchises of all time. In some ways, ‘Ju-On’ even marked the inception of the J-Horror wave of the 90s, which later traversed very well into Hollywood. ‘The Ring‘, ‘Spiral’, ‘One Missed Call’, and ‘Dark Water’ are a few examples of Hollywood’s endeavors into J-Horror, other than ‘The Grudge’. Netflix has now added yet another installment to the ‘Ju-On’ franchise, which isn’t anything like the recent tiresome slew of repetitive adaptations....