A Cleveland woman named Uloma Curry-Walker may have hired people to kill her firefighter husband William just to get the insurance money. She was in debt when she asked her teenage daughter and the girl’s boyfriend to find someone to kill the heroic man.

She then gave the boyfriend, Chad Padgett a $1,000 down payment and he hired Chris Hein, who didn’t get the job done, and then a man named Ryan Dorty to kill William.

The problem? Walker’s ex-wife was still the person who got the insurance, not his new wife.

Director Victoria Duley and writer Ben Greguoli have put together a Tubi documentary that will tell you the story including video and reenactment to make it feel like you get it all. You may have seen this on other true crime shows — I’ve lost track of murders now — but it’s still pretty well done.

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I’ve been watching all of these Tubi documentaries because I have the goal of watching every Tubi Original.

As such, I know nothing about Miley Cyrus other than she was Hannah Montana and that Dolly Parton is her godmother.

I also dislike everyone from TMZ, so seeing that the description for this is “Harvey Levin and his team of TMZ experts discuss Miley Cyrus’ meteoric rise to fame and debate her biggest scandals and successes” well, I was planing on not liking this. 

Other than the seemingly fake fighting between TMZ writers, it wasn’t that bad. I agreed with most of the people on the show that Miley may have had some bad press early but she’s the kind of talent that will be around for a long time.

I really appreciated her charity work and for something I was not looking forward to watching, I ended up walking away from this feeling really good about what I sat through.

I promise — weirder movies are coming back to the site. Allow me my Tubi obsession.

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My brother and I don’t have a lot in common. He loves basketball and I’ve never watched it. However, I did watch this Tubi Original and I was pretty amazed by the story in it. I never realize that Kobe Bryant’s father played, that he grew up in Italy or that he had a lifelong friendship with WNBA player Tamika Jennings, that he supported women in basketball so much or that he was so devoted of a father.

Directed by Victoria Duley and Sia Savvy, this Tubi documentary would probably be elementary for someone who knew basketball better than I do, but it held me for an hour and a half and it took me through the entire story of Kobe’s life — the good and bad — and I grew to admire what he did in his life, even when he failed.

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The Creep starts with a man (Cory Espie) putting a shovel back in a truck. It looks like something has gone wrong.

Then, we find two people in bed together talking about how they’re both in other relationships and have to choose what they want to do. She claims that she needs more time and he walks out. He’s passed by the black man we saw at the beginning who punches her in the face.

Fade out. We come back to a barber shop where we see the man who walked out, Terry, getting his hair done. He asks out Olivia (Kris D’Sha), the woman who did his fade and gossip follows. He makes it to his job as a teacher just in time to break up a fight between two girls.

Terry and Olivia have a date at his house where she cooks. As you can figure, they make out on the couch despite her worrying that they’re moving too quickly. The next morning, one of Olivia’s customers by the name of Francesca (Tekia Gee) is trying to get details and it turns out that she’s a detective. She goes to a crime scene where she finds a body in a field.

Cut to that big guy from the beginning, who has a woman tied up and covered in blood. He’s filming her while he screams at her about how women use men. He sings the song we heard when we first saw him, “Ain’t No Sunshine” and hits her with a weapon.

Back to the detectives — the partner is Adrian (Fabian) — who are investigating the case. And Terry and Olivia are still dating, as he makes a red pepper pineapple weenie rotini, which she doesn’t seem to like. She makes him order a pizza.

When he goes to a teaching conference, he lets his cousin stay there. Olivia visits and hears the young man having vigorous bed olympics and thinks that it’s Terry. Meanwhile, the hair stylists take out the detective to celebrate that she graduated. The killer is also drinking at the bar and watches as Olivia arrives in tears. He introduces himself and starts talking to her. It takes seconds before they’re kissing on the dance floor and then making love in his apartment.

Speaking as a larger man, thank you The Creep for having a big man be sexual.

Olivia and the Creep end up getting into it pretty quick, dating as fast as it gets, as we see them out and about on multiple dates. He also starts looking through her phone and learns all about her life, including Terry, who gets to explain that it wasn’t him that she heard. Now she’s trapped inside the Creep’s apartment with him having an emotional talk with her, telling her that he doesn’t take heartbreak well.

That’s when she breaks up with him.

The detective meets the sister of the woman we saw killed earlier and learns that her sister’s boyfriend was named Cory and she has a photo of him. Yes, it’s The Creep.

I have to call out that Olivia has some of the silliest outfits ever.

We then cut from a romantic dinner to Terry and Olivia making love as the Creep watches and does a five knuckle shuffle on the piss pump.

Also I want to remark how much I love the Greek chorus that is the other hair stylists, Quasha (Dee Hill) and Cortez (Corta Ishman).

The Creep ends up stalking everyone, even at the gym. He’s sending valentine hearts, calling the stylists, even watching people work out. Everyone gets together to play Uno and yes, this movie has a long and involved discussion of double Uno rules and then Terry and Olivia get engaged and the Creep leaves a dead bird on the porch.

At their engagement party, Terry’s cousin Tony gets jumped by the Creep and shot in the bathroom while the band Chemistry plays. His worried girlfriend says, “Tony must be taking a shit.”

This gets even better, because the Creep goes all in on stalking after Olivia reveals that she was cheating and Terry leaves her. He also kidnaps the sister of the woman he killed and goes wild, yelling about Bennigan’s.

The ending of this is just as goofy as you would have hoped that it would be, with a comedy baby scene, some dispute over the child’s baby daddy and, of course, one more twist. After all, the first person that the Creep took was also sleeping with Terry. The plan was there all along.

Directed by A.D. Scott and written by DeMarcus Bailey and Derek Massey, this was shot for $33,000 in Dallas and is more than 2 hours long for reasons I can only wonder about. Of course I loved it.

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In 2007, Jeffrey Epstein was featured in a VH1 show The Fabulous Life of Billion Dollar Wall Street Ballers.

That is shown in this, bragging of his rich life as if it’s something everyone wanted.

“Jeff was a high school math teacher who traded his blackboard for the big board. He just couldn’t keep out of the classroom. When he bought himself a house, he bought himself a school house.”

There’s even his Lolita Express in the show, although it isn’t called that, but there is mention of his close personal friendship with Bill Clinton.

“Jet setting with Bill? All in a day’s work for the Wall Street mogul,”

The media reported that Jeffrey Epstein died on August 10, 2019 by suicide while inside one of the most secure prisons in the world. This Tubi Original attempts to turn the memes and theories into as truthful a story as they can get.

I mean, the Naked Cowboy singing a song at the beginning doesn’t help, but did you think a Tubi Original was going to be the way you get all of the answers to one of the biggest mysteries ever?

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There are 400 million guns in America.

Each year, more than 40,000 people are shot and killed.

Twice as many survive.

There have already been 46 mass shootings just in January 2024.

This Vice documentary attempts to figure out how we got here, even showing the history in Austin of mass shootings which dates back to August 1, 1966 when Charles Whitman opened fire at the University of Texas. Nearly everyone is connected to someone that has been involved in gun violence by now.

So what do we do? Is there any way to stop this? Is America based on the gun as it is?

This documentary doesn’t have many answers but it does show you where things are. It’s such a strange thing for me to navigate as I like shooting guns, but I also understand that there are some guns that no one should own. I don’t know the line and you know, I have no clue if we can ever solve it. Yet every mass shooting they say that no one knew it was coming and we know. We know every single day.

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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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