Alex (Natalie Brown) and her problem child daughter Nicole (Lola Flanery) have moved to a new town to get over the death of Alex’s husband (and Nicole’s father). Nicole is also — was also? — a famous social media influencer who ended up with a bad drug habit in the wake of that tragedy and needs to be watched like a hawk by her mother.

Then, as you can tell by the images of the poster, this turns Spirit store Eyes Wide Shut and a bit giallo as there’s a secret party in this town that determines who will be rich and famous. Everyone’s dying to get in, everyone wears masks and somehow, it all ties to the real reason that Alex has moved here: the bridge that cost her husband his life that keeps claiming innocent people with the reason supposedly being that everyone who dies there is a suicide.

It all looks much nicer than its budget suggests and yes, everyone acts like a moron and gets in way over their heads, but isn’t that what movies like this are made for?

Directed by Monika Mitchell (Deadly Midwife) and written by Miriam Lyapin and Helen Marsh (who wrote Festival of the Living Dead as a team), this is certainly much better than Lyapin and Marsh’s zombie failure. I’m all for more of Mitchell’s films, as they have no issue with being absurd and I use that word with the best possible feelings.

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Directed and written by Jem Gerrard, who also made Slay for Tubi, this starts with Kay (Khosi Ngema) and her friend Riley (Matthew Vey) sneaking into the home of pharma king Pierce Patton (Francis Chouler) and his girlfriend Jessica (Alex McGregor). Much like Parasite, they seemingly live in the spaces where rich people leave behind during the day, remaining hidden and enjoying the comforts of life that their jobs could never afford.

Except there’s some way strange things going on in this house.

You can tell that Pierce is insane right from the beginning, as when he sees a photo that a journalist (Grant Ross) has used for his cover story, he instantly reacts like it’s the biggest slight ever. It takes Jessica to calm his nerves and make him settle down at his party.

Spoilers from here on out…

When you buy an entire mountain so no one else can be near you, you’re probably the kind of maniac that is conducting secret body horror experiments in your basement. That said, I was surprised several times by this movie, as characters aren’t what they seem and the lure of power, money or medical innovation start to be more important than being a human being. Only Kay emerges as someone who just wants to escape and tell the world about what she has seen. There’s a good chance that no one is going to allow her to be so altruistic.

This is the second movie by Gerrard that I have enjoyed and I hope that Tubi keeps them coming.

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The TMZ crew gathers yet again — these people love to get together and yell at one another — to discuss drugs in Hollywood, like ayahuasca retreats and ketamine therapy.

I wouldn’t know what ayahuasca was if it wasn’t for Howard Stern and I’m fascinated by a drug that basically makes you shit your pants. This doc even meets the Soul Quest, an Ayahuasca church located in Orlando, Florida, and explains how this drug has followers including  Lindsay Lohan, Jim Carrey, Aaron Rodgers, Jada and Will Smith, Sting, Mike Tyson and Andre 3000.

In case you don’t know what it is, it’s a South American psychoactive drink that came from the Amazon and Orinoco basins and is traditionally part of spiritual ceremonies, divination and healing.

But yeah, it can make you go in your pants.

Drugs have always been a big deal in the tabloids so it’s wild to see one so supportive of drug use, but we also live in a world where marijuana is nearly legal, which I never believed would happen. I mean, I get microdosing ads on Instagram all the time.

Ready to learn how the A list trips balls? Harvey Levin is ready to let you in on all the behind the scenes substances.

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Made by The Asylum, this was directed by Brian Nowak (Jurassic Domination) and written by C.M. Dowling (Super Volcano) and M.L. Miller (Shark Waters). This takes place in The Armada Hotel, which is under construction when an earthquake shakes the city. It traps Brian (Matthew Gademske) and his girlfriend Amy (Angela Cole). While he knows that she’s diabetic and worries about her condition, he doesn’t know that she’s pregnant. Along with the architects Deb (Jenny Tran) and Joe (Pakob Jarernpone) and the person in charge of the construction, Reese (Houston Rhines) and several other future victims, they must try to get out of the building or die trying.

Most of them die, no spoiler needed.

A whole bunch of attractive people get killed by everything from malfunctioning elevators to flooding and even a helicopter bisecting them. The first part has nearly no effects and instead uses the building — which has fallen into the underground — to good effect. Then they get to the surface and that’s when The Asylum remembers that they have to have lots of CGI, some bad, some not as bad, and there’s even a great moment where the survivors try to escape a flood by driving through a parking garage before smashing into a wall because of bad driving.

I love 70s disaster movies so much and always hope that modern movies can get close to them. This has the spirit, if not the cast of famous people, but is missing the budget. That said, if you just want to chill out, stop thinking and enjoy what citywide destruction looks like on a low budget, who am I to hold you back? I just wish that there were sharks in the water when it flooded or that this went crazier, but as it is, it moves fast and won’t bore you.

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Daniela (Tamara Almeida) and her husband Jaime (Jason Diaz) have seen better days. He was once a star athlete but got hurt, so now all he does is play video games and get more depressed while his wife cooks, cleans and makes all the money. He resents her, because she reminds him of the great past that he once had. She wants out so that she can have a future.

While talking with his friend Miguel (Milton Torres Lara), the conversation gets around to what Jaime should do now that it looks like he’s heading for a divorce. His wife has a $500,000 life insurance policy, but when Miguel suggests they kill her, Jaime reminds him how much he loves his wife.

However, one of her fellow nurses and her best friend Rosie (Erica Deutschman) has a crush on Jaime and takes a photo of Dani consoling a cop named Noah (Brett Geddes)who saved her from a homeless man who was attacking people inside the hospital. It isn’t even a romance yet, but it’s already upset Dr. Will (Connor McMahon), who has an infatuation with Dani, and when Miguel sees the photo, he decides that yes, his wife must die.

Miguel decides to pull the job but he gets nervous and struggles with Dani, whose hand is on the gun when it goes off. She has no idea what to do, so she hides the body and calls Noah instead of 911. He reacts so much unlike how she expected, telling her that she’s going to hurt his career. That said, he does help her hide out until she figures out what to do next. As she waits in a trailer, she’s using her house’s cameras to watch what Jaime is doing.

Antonio (David Chinchilla), Miguel’s brother, wants revenge a lot more than Jaime. He decides that he’s going to be the one to kill Dani and get the money. Noah, who falls for women in trouble, wants to help her. Jaime has no idea what he wants. Dani, however, is the kind of heroine who will do whatever she has to do to get away from all of these men and the various things they need from her.

Directed by Lisa Soper (the production designer on Peacemaker, Chilling Adventures of Sabrina and The Blackcoat’s Daughter) and written by Huelah Lander (Twisted Neighbor), this film has a wild color palette that feels like people live inside a Mario Bava film, as well as some great character work. Rosie is one of the most horrible, self-centered and awesome villains I’ve seen in a movie in some time. And Dani ends up being stronger than anyone else, making unexpected decisions and pulling herself out of the mess her life has become.

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The first time I heard about Sean “Puffy” Combs was in 1991 when he promoted an AIDS fundraiser at the City College of New York following a charity basketball game. The event was oversold and in a rush to get to the stage, nine people died.

From my outside the rap knowledge world — I mean, I love Public Enemy, Black Sheep and random songs — I always some him as a pretender, as someone who tagged along with the superior Notorious B.I.G. and then used his death to get ahead.

The last couple of months have been really wild, to say the least.

This whole thing started in 20017 when Cindy Ruela, a former personal chef for Diddy, filed a lawsuit against in L.A. County Superior Court claiming that the artist sexual harassed her. Then a few years later, his former girlfriend Cassie Ventura accused him of rape, sex trafficking and physical abuse, as well as blowing up her boyfriend Kid Cudi’s car. These suits were paid off, but then there were more cases, including some claiming revenge porn was used as Diddy filmed women and used it as blackmail.

By February of this year, Combs had five lawsuits, including one by Rodney “Lil Rod” Jones, a producer who claimed that he was raped by Diddy and forced to have sex with sex workers while others watched and filmed him.

It all led to the March 25 raid of Combs’ homes in Los Angeles, New York and Miami y the Department of Homeland Security. In response, Macy’s pulled all of his clothing and soon, others would follow suit.

As this is written, nothing has been decided in court and much of the charges in this are rumors. But man, when there’s smoke, there’s often fire. If you need caught up on a situation in pop culture fast, these TMZ Tubi Originals will do it for you.

Now where’s the Kendrick Lamar vs. Drake breakdown for us old white people?

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Directed by Ted Campbell (Final Heist), who co-wrote the script with Richard Pierce, This Never Happened is all about Emily (María José De La Cruz) who is the next in her family’s history of being able to see the dead. After all, her grandmother could as well and that’s why she lived out her days alone in a mental hospital.

Emily goes with her boyfriend Matteo (Javier Dulzaides) to his father’s funeral in Mexico City. Afterward, his mother Melora (Andrea Noli) tells him that the house will be sold in a few days. Matteo’s friends — Olivia (Conny Cambambia), Ale (Juana Serrano) and Nica (Gonzalo Zulueta) — decide that one weekend in their old house would give them closure.

You know what happens next.

I mean, Matteo even says to Emily, “You forgot to take your pills.”

Here are a few words of advice for the characters in this movie but well, they’re all dead so it’s hard to say, right? Don’t go back home with your boyfriend. If his friends all seem like drug addicts and may have put drugs in your drink, don’t trust them. If you can see the dead, maybe leave instead of dealing with that big toothed monster in the swimming pool. And if you buy Tarot cards, make sure they’re not razor sharp, no matter how good the scene is, because you’re going to die.

I think that Less Than Zero properly prepared me for a life of hating rich people. This movie is much the same, as they the thing that never happened is — spoiler warning — a girl being drugged and assaulted by several of them at a party in this same house. Now, her spirit wants revenge and is swimming in the pool, activated by those magic crystals that got thrown into the water. That’s more advice. If you have magic objects, don’t be throwing them into the pool.

Then again, I am all for rich kid comeuppance and this movie delivers on that. Tubi horror has been getting better and I’m hoping that a year from now, we’ll all be amazed at hust how far they’ve grown. Until then, this has a nice budget, an attractive cast and a scene where a blender leaks blood everywhere. Can you really ask more from free?

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The TMZ crew all gets together and yells at one another about the dumbest celebrity decisions, like how T.I. wanted to be there for his daughter’s gynecologist visits and to be sure she was still a virgin. According to Global News, his daughter said that T.I. had been going with her to these doctor visits since she was 14 or 15 and she “couldn’t have said no” to her dad when he asked to join for the appointments. She also revealed on Instagram that she has harmed herself in the past to deal with her emotions.

Want even dumber? There’s Justin Bieber saying that Anne Frank would have been a “Belieber,” “Live for Now” the Kim Kardashian Pepsi commercial where she solves a protest and police unrest by giving a cop a soda — created by a team of white people and which caused Pepsi to have to write “Pepsi was trying to project a global message of unity, peace and understanding. Clearly we missed the mark, and we apologize. We did not intend to make light of any serious issue. We are removing the content and halting any further rollout. We also apologize for putting Kendall Jenner in this position.” — as well as the celebrity “Imagine” video during the COVID-19 era and Adam Levine cheating with a woman and using his band’s Instagram account to send messages.

Of all of these decisions, the fact that I watch multiple Tubi TMZ shows in a row to write about them on this site may be among the silliest.

That said, this is just like lying on my grandmother’s bed with a stack of National Enquirer, Star, National Examiner and Globe newspapers and tearing through them, learning about Liz Taylor’s sad last days and who was on drugs, who was on the watermelon diet, who was a friend of Dorothy and who was a cheat. Those are some of the best days of my childhood.

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Quinn Walker (Susan Ateh) has just returned to detective work after the death of her police officer husband, a man who everyone loved and who she knew as an abuser. She’s kept that a secret from everyone but most essentially from her son Liam, who idolized his dad. She’s become even more of the mean mom that he forced her to be, keeping her son from his interest in detective work and using true crime websites to help others solve crimes.

On the first day back on the job, she nearly shoots a suspect who ends up being an actor in the middle of a scene. It gets her noticed and while some of the press is bad, many see her as a hero for the way she tried to save someone, even if it was on a movie set.

She’s also just been assigned a new partner, Carter (Jay Rincon), a London detective who has come to America to — as we learn later — find the murderer of his father. They don’t get along and she doesn’t trust him, but her son sees him as someone worth knowing.

In the middle of all this drama, there are also murders.

Mia Bailey is the hottest actress in Hollywood and she’s about to star in a movie based on her friend Anna’s (Roisin Browne) script, Blind Items. At the same time, there’s a blind items website that reveals who will die next, from Mia in the place where her career started to her business manager Jason Cohen (Luis Donegan-Brown) and almost everyone connected to Mia and Anna, who came to the city of dreams together, living with a circle of friends, all of whom are either dying or suspects, like Ozzie, a former military veteran and now spiritual healer.

As Quinn tries to deal with her grief, her new partner and being a mother, she starts to depend on her son, who is able to find clues that she never saw and use the internet way better than she ever would be able to. However, this puts him in danger.

I really liked Quinn’s boss, Captain Ellis (Doña Croll), who has a really great scene with Quinn where she explains that she knew that she always had a hard time being the wife of someone that everyone saw as a much better person than he really was.

The strange thing is deciding to have a London detective in the U.S. When does this ever happen? It’s kind of strange, but not enough to put me off the movie.

Director and co-writer — with Daniel Mahler Landman — Nanea Miyata also directed A Party To Die For, another Tubi Original. I liked how whoever is behind the murders goes through some twists and turns, using Quinn’s recent incident in the news against her. And by the end, there’s a moment that makes who the killer is up in the air, as the messages haven’t stopped on the site.

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Directed by Zelda Williams, the daughter of Robin, in her debut, Lisa Frankenstein was written by Diablo Cody, who claims that it takes place in the same universe as Jennifer’s Body, It’s set in 1989 and really feels like a movie made for those who may not have been alive at that time and want to feel a cinematic version of it rather than those who lived through it and saw films that inspired this movie, like Weird Science.

Lisa Swallows (Kathryn Newton, who was in Big Little Lies, Blockers and Freaky), besides being saddled with that name, has lost her mother to an axe murderer and now has a horrible stepmother Janet (Carla Gugino), who has pretty much taken her father (Joe Chrest) from her. The positive things in her life include her somewhat goofy stepsister Taffy (Liza Soberano) and best friend Lori (Jenna Davis, the voice of M3GAN). And oh yes, the cemetery where she sits near an unnamed musician (Cole Sprouse, who was Cody on The Suite Life of Zack & Cody) who had fallen in love with a woman before she left him for another man and he was struck by lightning.

After a boy named Doug (Bryce Romero) tries to assault her at a party, Lisa ends up back at the grave, wishing she could be together in death with the musician. Lightning hits his grave and he comes back from the dead as a zombie who follows her. He’s missing body parts, ones that he soon gains by killing anyone who has wronged Lisa, who uses a tanning bed to fuse their parts with his body before the police start to figure out that everyone dead has a connection to Lisa.

I realize that this film may not be for me as a target audience, but I liked its look and soundtrack. Cody’s dialogue is an acquired taste, as hardly anyone speaks like that in real life, but hey, we’re watching a movie. The leads are charming and if this came out in 1989, when I was 17 and the audience for it, I probably would have loved it way more than I did in 2024 when I am 51.