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The highly anticipated crime drama series, "Poacher," produced by Alia Bhatt, is scheduled to premiere on February 23, 2024. As an Amazon Prime Video original, the series delves into the pressing issue of poaching and the illegal killing of animals.Poacher OTT Release: Cast, Crew and PlotDirected by Richie Mehta, known for his Emmy Award-winning work on "Delhi Crime," the series boasts a talented cast including Nimisha Sajayan, Roshan Mathew, Dibyendu Bhattacharya, Ankith Madhav, Kani Kusruti, and Sooraj Pops. With…

The banking industry is seeking help from the federal government and the social media industry to stop an escalating crisis that's costing Americans billions of dollars every year: online romance scams.These digital crimes have proliferated since the pandemic, as criminals pose as attractive partners and reach out to lonely Americans on social media."We really need help," Paul Benda, the executive vice president for risk, fraud and cybersecurity at the American Bankers Association, said in an interview with CNBC. "We need…

Photo: Rokas Tenys (Shutterstock)Amazon allegedly tricked users into buying more expensive products through the use of its “Buy Box,” according to a class action lawsuit filed last week. The Buy Box, which features a “Buy Now” and “Add to Cart” button next to eligible items, funnels users into terrible deals through the ease of one-click shopping according to the complaint, Ars Technica reports on Monday.Prime Day Ain't That 'Green'“Amazon customers reasonably believe that the Buy Box—which presents the only way for a…

This suspenseful comedy-drama gets a little tricksy, with flashbacks within flashbacks and sudden shifts of tone. But the lead actor Aaron Jakubenko (yet another Australian alumnus of the soap Neighbours, nailing the Kansas accent here) has plenty of charisma – enough to pull the viewer along for the rocky ride mapped out by the writing-directing sibling team, Ben and Jacob Burghart. The Burghart brothers originally made a short version of the set up here, also called Head Count, which might explain the film’s bitty…

Here is a film set in the British-Pakistani community that focuses on two Gen Z girls on the cusp of adulthood: Halima (Nimrah S Zaman) and Amara (Ariya Larker). Halima is the daughter of an MP with plans to get tougher on drug-related crime, while Amara is just trying to get by despite a turbulent family life, with parents who seemingly can’t stand each other and a brother struggling to find his path in life and considering a job in a call centre. So far, so social-realist, but when Halima and Amara plan a weekend away,…

This is not the best week to be releasing a film that features a character spraying a corrosive liquid at the victim of a botched robbery. Although this London-based moped crime drama pointedly condemns the acid-chucker, it still, given recent events, feels horribly jarring as a plot device. The film follows Ash (Stephen Odubola) as he gets sucked into a phone-snatching crime spree, first to earn money to support his schoolgirl sister, but later as much for the jolt of adrenaline it gives him.The story is so generic that…

Most remember Griselda Blanco as the “Black Widow,” a ruthless Colombian drug lord whose network flooded Miami with cocaine, brought in $80 million a month nationally, and who’s been personally implicated in a rumored 200 murders. Michael Corleone Blanco, her youngest son raised at the height of her drug-trafficking empire, admits she was a rigid, stern woman he affectionately called cariñosa — an endearing term given to loved ones.   “As a kid, you can’t really comprehend what is wrong, what is right, and what is…

Denzel Washington and Spike Lee are reuniting for their fifth film together. The actor and the veteran filmmaker, who last collaborated on `Inside Man` (2006), are now partnering on `High and Low.` The crime thriller is an English language reinterpretation of Akira Kurosawa’s 1963 film of the same name. Starring Toshiro Mifune, Kurosawa’s classic was based on Ed McBain’s novel, King’s Ransom, which chronicles the ruin of a businessman following a ransom payment to kidnappers. Lee and…

Apple engineers deal with a lot of confidential information, but leaking those secrets could land you in jail. Xiaolang Zhang was sentenced to 120 days in prison this week after being convicted of stealing Apple’s self-driving car technology, according to California court filings first reported by 9to5Mac Thursday. The former Apple engineer will also pay over $140,000 for attempting to hand Apple’s classified data to a Chinese competitor.The M3 MacBook Pro: Made Dark for HalloweenZhang worked on “Project Titan,” the…

Online dating can be a minefield. Your feelings can get hurt. Your confidence can be shaken. Your time can be wasted. And you can wander into a maelstrom of murder, arson, and identity theft that leaves you questioning your previously established reality. This is the point at which a situation morphs from social annoyance to Netflix true crime documentary. Lover, Stalker, Killer, whose title practically screams “edgy true crime doc!,” is a sort of tech-age cautionary tale about what can happen when you go looking…