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Prime Target is a mystery thriller drama miniseries created by Steve Thompson. The Apple TV+ series follows Edward Brooks, a brilliant post-graduate mathematics student who discovers that his work could potentially become the key to access every computer in the world. He soon begins to notice that people want to destroy his work. Prime Target stars Leo Woodall, Quintessa Swindell, Sidse Babett Knudsen, David Morrissey, Stephen Rea, and Fra Fee. So, if you loved the thrilling conspiracy, mysterious story, and compelling characters in Prime Target, here are some shows you should check out next.

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London Spy is a British conspiracy and mystery thriller drama series created by Tom Rob Smith. The BBC Two series follows Danny, a young man who meets and falls in love with Alex, a brilliant MI6 code genius.

Plot: Tech billionaire and gambler Jake Foley (Crowe) hosts a high-stakes poker game between childhood friends, offering them the chance to win more money than they’ve ever dreamed of. The evening takes a turn when he unveils his elaborate plan seeking revenge for their betrayals and to play, they’ll have to give up the one thing they’ve spent their lives trying to keep…their secrets. As the game unfolds, thieves break in and they must band together to survive a night of terror.

Review: Russell Crowe is a movie star. There is no question about the actor’s abilities on screen whether it be in marquee dramas like A Beautiful Mind, action epics like Gladiator, or period pieces like Cinderella Man. In recent years, Crowe has performed in projects that appeal to him ranging from pulpy flicks like Unhinged or superhero fare including Man of Steel and Thor: Love and Thunder.

One of Russell Crowe’s greatest strengths as a movie star is his ability to make it look easy. When he’s at his best, it often looks like he’s barely trying. Whether it be heroic vengeance (Gladiator), bold leadership (Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World), unhinged––ahem––madness (Unhinged), or anything in between, he appears incredibly comfortable. When Crowe is in the director’s chair, he seems to be trying a bit too hard. At least so far. Poker Face––marking his first screenplay credit and second directorial feature following The Water Diviner in 2015––is a lot of things at once.

Crowe plays Jake Foley, a billionaire who got rich after he developed tech for early online poker that then got repurposed for military use. A sepia-toned flashback leads into an extended shamanic drug trip that seems to clarify a few moral quandaries for Jake,...

The title “Poker Face” suggests a droll, methodical cunning that unfortunately proves elusive everywhere else in Russell Crowe’s sophomore effort as writer-director. As handsomely produced as his first, 2014’s historical drama “The Water Diviner,” it offers an even more overstuffed narrative whose myriad elements barely have time to register before we arrive at a nearly 10-minute end credits crawl. This Australia-shot mix of intrigue, soap opera, thriller and tearjerker never quite gels, despite enough surface gloss and cast expertise to hold attention. Screen Media is releasing theatrically to a couple dozen U.S. screens this week and to digital formats on Nov. 22, with other territories following.

A prologue finds our protagonists as teenage besties in what looks like the late 1970s: five rural Aussie lads already obsessed with poker. After a swim in an idyllic quarry, they’re challenged to a game by a local bully, who naturally is enraged by his loss.

As promised, the second wave of films have been announced for Shriekfest Film Festival 2018, including Killer Kate!, Camp Cold Brook (starring Danielle Harris, Chad Michael Murray, and Courtney Gains), and the world premieres of Sound Wave and Soul to Keep:

Press Release: The Shriekfest Film Festival, an international horror/sci-fi film and screenplay competition, has announced the first three films of its 2018 feature film lineup. Film festival director Denise Gossett says "We are super excited to show you our wonderfully diverse selection of amazing films from all over the world.".

The feature films selected thus far are listed below:

"Sound Wave" (World Premiere) written & directed by Shriekfest Alum Dylan K. Narang (All I Need). A teenage inventor's life spirals into chaos when a nefarious group discovers he's invented a device that can hear into the past. Starring Hunter Doohan (Westworld), Katie Owsley (All I Need), & Paul Tassone

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Fox has given a script commitment with significant penalty for a proposed remake of the Australian political thriller series "The Code" for FX.

"Justified" creator/executive producer Graham Yost, executive producer/director Michael Dinner and executive producer Fred Golan are teaming to serve in the same capacities on this project with Sony Pictures TV producing. Yost and Golan will adapt the story for the U.S. market while Dinner will direct the pilot.

The original followed multiple characters and their ties to a mysterious accident in which a stolen vehicle collides with a transport truck in the middle of the desert. The truth surrounding it is dangerous enough that people at the highest levels of political power will kill to keep it secret, but two brothers - a journalist and a hacker - are the key to learn the truth.

Lucy Lawless, David Wenham, Aden Young, Dan Spielman, Ashley Zukerman,...

Recently, CBS released the new,official synopsis/spoilers for their upcoming "NCIS: Los Angeles" episode 13 of season 6. The episode is entitled, "In The Line Of Duty," and it turns out that we're going to see Callen and Sam get into some crazy danger when they try to get a hold of crime scene evidence following a major terrorist attack, and more! In the new, 13th episode press release: After the U.S, Ambassador narrowly escapes a terrorist attack at the U.S. consulate in Tunisia, Callen and Sam are going to get sent on a secret,dangerous mission to obtain crime scene evidence. Press release number 2: After U.S. Ambassador ,Nancy Kelly, narrowly escapes a terrorist attack at the U.S. consulate in Tunisia, Callen and Sam will get sent on a secret, dangerous mission to obtain key evidence from the crime scene. Upon their return, the team is...

DirecTV has bought Us rights to Playmaker Media.s The Code, a six-part series about two brothers who stumble across information about a new technology - information that people in the highest political echelons will kill to keep secret.

ABC-tv commissioned the thriller, which stars Dan Spielman (An Accidental Soldier, Offspring), Ashley Zukerman (The Slap, Rush), Adam Garcia (Coyote Ugly, Bootmen), David Wenham (Top of the Lake, Killing Time), Lucy Lawless (Spartacus), Aden Young (I Frankenstein, Rectify), Chelsie Preston Crayford (Mystery of a Hansom Cab, Underbelly: Razor), Adele Perovic (SLiDE), Dan Wyllie (Rake, Puberty Blues), Aaron Pedersen (Jack Irish, City Homicide), and Paul Tassone (Underbelly).

The show was created by Shelley Birse and written by Birse, Blake Ayshford and Justin Monjo, directed by Shawn Seet (Love Child, Underbelly, Mystery of a Hansom Cab) and produced by Playmaker.s David Maher and David Taylor and Birse.

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