This starts in a cemetery, where Joanna (Cassidey Fralin) visits the grave of her mother and looks at an article about her father Michael Lawrence (Blue Kimble), a real estate millionaire, marrying Whitney (Annie Ilonzeh), a self-made cosmetics company owner. It also appears that she may have an old woman knocked out in the back seat of a car.

Cassandra’s friends Cass and Tawanda are worried that they got married too quickly. She reminds them that she made him sign a pre-nup. That’s when Joanna arrives in the middle of a party. She tells her father that she has nowhere to stay and that her Granny Linda died. That would be the dead or knocked out woman seen in the cemetery. But now, she gets to meet her stepbrothers Eric, Brian and their friend Dante and start to bond with her new family.

Yet all is not well literally from the first morning that they are all together. Whitney explained how important her mother’s urn was to her and it’s broken moments later, leaving ash all over the floor.

That’s when Michael explains that when his wife died in a drunk driving accident, he abandoned his daughter to start drinking. He lost Joanna to Granny Linda and thinks that this is a chance to be the father he wasn’t then.

While all this family change is happening, Whitney is at Walmart, selling her line to get national distribution. She brings models to test her makeup on. However, in the iddle of her successful presentation, the girls faces start to burn, ruining her presentation.

After that. Whitney and Joanna go on a girl’s day and Whitney ends up having a strange dizzy spell. Maybe that’s because we just saw Joanna look at her prescriptions and then a gloved hand — I do believe that these movies that Chris Stokes and Marques Houston make are urban giallo — switch out the pills.

As this picks up speed, Joanna lets Whitney know that she’s the one who put lye into the makeup, she tries to pill up Eric and throw him off the roof and kills Dante after he finds her diary. But then one of Whitney’s sister Cass’ husband Terrence does a background check and finds out that Joanna Lawrence is really Maggie Dillon. This causes Whitney to call Michael and ask him what’s happening. He claims that her grandparents changed her name. It turns out that Michael dated a woman named Heather who he thought would fix things but it only made it worse, as she began to abuse his daughter. When Heather got out of jail, her name was changed to protect her. But now Michael is out of the house on vacation and everyone is alone with Joanna. Michael kind of blames everyone and takes his daughter’s side.

Of course, it’s time for more drugging, as Joanna reacts badly to Whitney calling her Maggie. She also comes into Brian’s room and kisses him. Moments later, he tells his mother that she needs to be nicer to Whitney, but when he’s in her room, it seems like she’s almost dead. They take her to the hospital and doctors think that she tried to kill herself.

Cassandra takes the boys as Whitney tells her that she thinks that Joanna is trying to kill them. They find Dante’s body in the same park that she once took the boys to and everyone is convinced that she killed him. Cassandra tries to prove that and gets killed herself after a brutal battle.

There’s a great twist though and that’s all you’ll get out of me. I really loved this one and have been waiting for these guys to bring it like they did here.

I was excited as soon as I saw that this was directed by Chris Stokes, who wrote the story with Marques Houston. I’ve called Chris the king of Tubi, because he’s made The Stepmother, Vicious Affair, Picture Me Dead, The Assistant and I Hate You to Death for the channel and every one of them has some amazing moments of lunacy. This is yet another installment in their near monthly movie releases. I hope they keep on making these for decades.

I wonder: Is this movie sponsored by Walmart? There’s a camo Yellowstone hat in Brian’s bedroom, a Misfits shirt that Whitney wears and a mention of the company. What a marketing strategy seemingly to reach me, someone who watches every Tubi Original.

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Jonquel Jones, Nneka Ogwumike, Breanna Stewart and Sheryl Swoopes are four of the biggest stars of the WNBA and honestly, I’ve never watched a game or knew anything about them. This Tubi Original, however, surprised me with how good it is, telling their stories and getting you invested not just in the game but in their lives.

Directed by Andrea Buccilla, a former college athlete, this film was produced by MALKA in partnership with the WNBPA, PUMA and Crown Royal Regal Apple.

What surprised me was that most of the players in the WNBA play year-round, often in Europe and Asia, just so they have enough money to live and then have to find jobs for their lives when they can’t play. For many in the film, they are newly married and dealing with leaving behind partners while heading to uncertain places to play somewhere, anywhere and then back to hopefully remain healthy for another season, hoping this is the one where they win the finals, which seems to be the only way to make money.

That said, things seem to be changing for the league and it’s amazing how much they allowed to be shown in this film. For someone with no real interest in basketball, this made me really care and perhaps I’ll even watch a game.

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The story of Susan Powell is beyond sad and distressing. She disappeared and was presumed killed in December of 2009, but the case kept getting stranger. Her husband, Joshua, was the prime suspect, but so was his father, Steven, who had followed Susan with a camcorder and even collected her hair in a strange affair that was in his head. In 2003, he had tried to tell her, but she was not interested and they soon moved far away; some think Joshua helped his father collect photos and videos of his wife.

By the end of the case, Joshua had blown up his house with his children Charles and Braden inside, and his brother Michael killed himself — after being investigated for helping his brother — by jumping off a parking garage. Susan has never been found.

Directed by Victoria Drew and written by Adam Meyer, this Tubi Original features reenactments, experts on the case and the actual law enforcement officers that were involved in it. You probably know the whole story from watching so much true crime on TV, but if you want to go back into this horrific story again, this hour-long doc has you covered.

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Directed by Danny J. Boyle (My Sister’s Serial Killer Boyfriend) and written by Bryan Dick, Prey for the Bride starts with Jordan (Megan Peta Hill) accepting the proposal of Greg (Brad Harder) and all of their friends celebrating. Unfortunately, someone has started killing those friends and will keep it up for the entire movie. Yes, a slasher about a bachelorette party!

Despite the death of their friend Kimi (Maia Mae Fields) that same night, the ladies decide to do a bachelorette party anyway. Brooke (Jacky Lai), April (Lina Lecompte), Dorit (Getenesh Berhe) and Lauren (Marnie Mahannah) go to a remote air BNB to hang out with Jordan and get her ready for the wedding.

That’s when it comes out that Jordan had a previous potential husband by the name of Holden who was a total maniac that killed himself in a fire. Or did he? Is he alive and the wolf masked killer who is stalking the ladies and anyone they bring into the house?

They even discover that a game they planned to play has been redone so it reveals that all of Jordan’s friends killed Holden to protect her. Will anyone survive? That’s a question you ask in slashers, after all. There are some fine kills, but by and large it’s a basic plot that you may struggle to get through if you’re a slasher elitist. But hey — I’m all for Tubi Originals and as those go, this was pretty fun.

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These girls are not having a great Valentine’s Day.

Jadyn (Ella-Rae Smith) has just arrived in London from Atlanta in order to live with her boyfriend Ray (Carl Spencer), who dumps her quickly. She starts a new job at beauty brand GLOW with two girls who may seem mean — Brandi (Cassie Clare) and Alex (Miriam-Teak Lee) — but they all bond over the knowledge that they’ve all recently had breakups.

As they prepare to get revenge on the men, their boss Dominique (Victoria Ekanoye) works hard to be their friend. Yet soon after they get their fun at the expense of their ex’s, the guys start showing up dead.

Directed by Traci Hayes (Blood, Sweat and Cheer) and written by Eliza Hayes Maher (Deadly DILF), this is a slasher that’s less about the murders and more about the bonding between the ladies at the center of the mystery. If you’re looking for some light humor, you’ll enjoy it. If you’re looking for the normal gore that shows up on this site, you may not.

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Mecca Noble (Moni Ogunsuyi) is the hottest reality star on Trophy Wives, but she’s told that they need to make the show even wilder for the next season. She soon learns that Angela Wright (Samantha Brown) is having her husband Damien’s (Eddie G.) baby, hooking up with him when he was drunk after his team won a big game.

Directed by Alicia K. Harris and written by Lu Asfaha, this is pretty predictable, but why else are you watching Tubi Originals, right? You want to see the crazy blonde girl manipulate everyone and make the suffering wife cry. No one will listen to her and soon, people are dying and maybe she can save her marriage because of course her husband is faithful and maybe the blonde has had this plan forever to ruin football.

I’m still going to watch these movies and write about them. Someone has to have an obsession and not just killer blondes in these tearjerkers.

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Willa (Camila Banus), Hailey (Jasmine Shanise), Kenzie (Shonte Akognon), Flynn (Virginia Ma) and Liev (Justin Chu Cary) used to be a gang that robbed banks. But on their last job — and just before Willa gave birth to her daughter with Liev — they miss one armed guard who shoots Liev and sends the girls on the run.

Now, many. years later, Willa’s daughter Sophia has a heart condition and the only person who can give her the lifesaving donation she needs to survive is Liev. Except he’s just been put into a coma after standing up for other prisoners and meeting with a reporter.

That means that the gang has to get back together — and deal with Willa and Hailey hating each other because they both loved the same man — to break in, rescue their old friend and save a sick young girl.

Directed by Ted Campbell, who wrote the story with Richard Pierce, this finds the gang — who hasn’t seen each other for years — coming together to gather the needed tissue from Liev with the help of a surgeon turned butcher named Toth (Andy Umberger). They also find a way to get the word out about the abuses in the prison by Warden Locke (Tim Abell).

The end of this gets tense and that’s appreciated. It speaks to the continuing quality of the movies that Tubi is picking for their original films. As the girls race to get the heart tissue out of the prison, they find themselves facing the same situation that the movie started with, as several of their gang find themselves shot and near death. Should they leave them behind or can everyone make it?

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Directed by Jaira Thomas and written by Briana Cole (The Marriage Pass), this finds Brandon (Asan N’Jie) and Andrea (Savannah Steyn) going on a vacation to the UK to try and fix their marriage. He’s a workaholic and it seems like whatever got them together is long gone. Even when they make their way to their resort, he’s answering work calls.

Things change when they meet Percy (Solomon Israel) and Chanelle (Adwoa Akoto), a married couple who encourage them both to get what they want. For Brandon, that may be a watch and standing up for himself. For Andrea, it’s finding what she feels is lost from the marriage. After a night of getting their groove back on, they’re shocked when Percy calls them to his room. He’s killed Chanelle and needs help getting rid of the body.

From that giallo-esque beginning, Played and Betrayed finds two couples switching the dynamic, going from innocent to role player and getting Brandon and Andrea closer while they deal with something they never thought they’d ever get into and emerge as people — and a couple — they never thought they were.

I don’t know if I totally believe the changes that they go through in just a few weeks, much less the way they bring in the story of how Percy and Chanelle helped Tia (Lola Wayne) kill off her horrible husband, but I guess when you go so far down the path, you have no problem doing some dark deeds and being just fine with it. By the end, it seems like our protagonists have become our antagonists.

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Martha (Tamara Mazarrasa) has raised her daughters Raquel (Lucía Tinajero) and Eva (Giovanna Reynaud) well, but they don’t know that the mother who runs a boutique and is putting them through college used to run with one of the most dangerous gangs in town.

When Eva is taken by El Chacal (Alex Guerrero) and his gang, Martha learns that the police may have good intentions but they aren’t able to get the job done. To save both of her daughters, she’ll have to go back to the woman she was before.

Directed and written by Mitchell Altieri, this is exactly the type of revenge movie that you’d expect. Then again, the sneak attack where the gang releases Eva and has her so drugged up she dies a few days later — all the doctors and tests in the hospital couldn’t see that coming, I guess — is pretty out there and I like that the cop who helps Martha, Juan Cinderos (Javier Dulzaides), doesn’t become her lover. It’s got a strong heroine who doesn’t just stop when she defeats the gang but also tries to offer support and a future to the women they kidnapped. She finds closure by being who she was always meant to be: a mother.

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This movie begins with Dorian (Shane Marriott) and Shantae Graham (Sagine Sémajuste) reading their marriage vows to each other. The thing is, we aren’t watching their wedding, but instead a bloody bathroom and signs of a murder. Maybe this marriage hasn’t worked out so well.

A year into their marriage, all the Grahams do is argue. They had planned to have a baby that she lost and she’s left the nursery, going in there to cry when she thinks of the child. As for Dorian, he works too much and often stays out late. Early on, we see him at a gentlemen’s club for a bachelor party when he runs into Reagan (Krista Nazaire), the sister of his wife and the bad girl of the family. She’s wasted and fighting with a bunch of guys, so he gives her a ride home but promises not to tell her sister that she’s back in town.

Dorian used to be a lothario back in the day — a year ago — and he misses his freedom. Shantae decides to give him a marriage pass — think Hall Pass but more of a giallo plot — where he will be allowed to cheat for one night with one person. She also gets the opportunity to do this and he’s already freaking out about it, but this does not stop him for getting with her sister, who even makes him say that he loves her while they’re having sex, even if he doesn’t mean it. She starts wanting more quickly, even if he’s explained that he doesn’t want anything but the one night marriage pass.

Of course, once he learns that Reagan is dating his friend Myles (Colton Royce) — he says that she has a great throat game, a thing I’ve never heard before and I was shocked. Shocked, I’ll tell you — he decides that he wants to be with her as much as he can, even having her sneak into his gynecology office for special appointments that his front desk nurse (Sarah Cleveland) is already spilling the tea over.

There’s also an uncomfortable family barbecue — Shantae and Reagan’s parents dislike Dorian and have no problem telling him that. Then things get way worse when Myles follows Reagan and attacks Dorian and things get out of hand with Dorian forgetting his Hippocratic oath to do no harm and killing his friend and hiding the body. Can it get tougher on him? What if Reagan gets pregnant and starts sending letters to the house telling Shantae that whoever her husband used his marriage path with has the child she can’t have?

Directed by Sam Coyle (Deadly Estate) and written by Briana Cole, who wrote the book that this was based on. I haven’t even gotten to the big twist, which is pretty great. You can see this as “psychological and domestic suspense” or, you know, a giallo. It’s a pretty fun movie and exactly the stuff that I love from a Tubi Original.

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