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© Lionsgate, Roadside Attractions, The Picture Company, Studio Canal, TF1 Films, Studio Babelsberg, Tripictures & Sky Cinema Liam Neeson really ought to stay out of movies set in major cities. And while we're at it, he should also avoid films that involve transportation. Yet here he is again in Berlin driving a SUV with a bomb under the driver's seat. The last time he was in the German capital was in 2011 for Jaume Collet Serra's decent thriller ' Unknown ' with Aidan Quinn, Diane Kruger, January Jones, Bruno Ganz and Frank Langella. © Lionsgate, Roadside Attractions, The Picture Company, Studio Canal, TF1 Films, Studio Babelsberg, Tripictures & Sky Cinema Neeson also starred in Serra's 2014 airplane thriller ' Non Stop ' alongside Julianne Moore, Scoot McNairy and Michelle Dockery as an alcoholic Federal Air Marshall terrorised on a flight from New York to London by texts warning him a passenger would be killed every 20 minutes. And if that wasn

© Netflix Netflix are at it again. Having given us in August 'Painkiller' - a six episode miniseries about Purdue Pharma's aggressive marketing of Oxycontin, we have a movie dealing with another opioid. David Yates' 'Pain Hustlers' is based on a true story but it takes a tongue in cheek approach to its account of the marketing of fentanyl. Names have been changed from the actual story of billionaire John Kapoor and his company Insys who were found guilty in 2020 of bribing doctors and running a racketeering operation to drive up sales of their opioid spray, Subsys. © Netflix The 76 year old physician was given a 66 month jail sentence and even went to the US Supreme Court to have it overturned - only for that bid to be rejected . Based on an Evan Hughes' New York Times magazine article and his subsequent 2022 book also called 'Pain Hustlers,' Yates' film takes a ' Wolf of Wall Street ' and ' The Big Short ' style approach to the

© Amazon Prime You'd think they'd know by the name - Nik Russian.  But never underestimate the ability of people to be duped - especially those obsessed with fame and fortune. Amazon Prime's 'The Greatest Show Never Made' tells an extraordinary story of how hundreds of people in Britain responded in 2002 to ads and flyers about a new reality TV show. The advert that appeared in The Stage read: 'New reality show seeks contestants. One year, £100,000." © Amazon Prime After auditions in Surbiton with cameramen, the contestants were whittled down to 30 people who were so mesmerised by the exotic would-be producer Nik Russian they gave up their jobs, relationships and hones to take part in the year long project. But it didn't take long for the wheels to come off Russian's vehicle, for it to be revealed not as a Porsche but rather a Reliant Robin. Gathering on a London housing estate and split into teams, the groups were informed the aim of the show/socia

© Hulu & Disney+ In 2018, the American photojournalist James Nachtwey documented for Time magazine the opioid crisis in communities across the US. His 'Opioid Diaries' contained grim scenes of people being injected in vans in San Francisco, a man being revived by paramedics in a car in Miamisburg Ohio, addicts huddling from the winter cold in Boston and a man in the same city, stumbling about the place like a zombie in the car park of a convenience store. These images brought to vivid life to the disturbing reality of the legal painkillers crisis. According to the Centres for Disease Control and Prevention , it was estimated this year that by August 187 people die every day in the US overdosing on opioids. © Hulu & Disney+ People genuinely treated for pain conditions have fallen victim to addiction. Those addicted to other drugs have also sought out drugs like Oxycontin after hearing they are legally available and can give them the same highs. With opioid addiction des

© BBC1 Timing, as everyone will tell you in the restaurant business, is everything. No sooner have audiences been raving about two seasons of the Chicago culinary drama ' The Bear ' on Hulu and Disney+, than we have got a TV version of Philip Barantini's mesmerising 2021   movie 'Boiling Point' . Barantini's feature had its roots in an explosive 2019 short also called 'Boiling Point' starring Stephen Graham. The feature film was a bravura one take movie in which the camera roamed around a London restaurant, following Stephen Graham's head chef Andy Jones and other characters over the course of a pretty disastrous 92 minutes. © BBC1 With the TV version now on our screens, comparisons between 'Boiling Point' on BBC1 and ' The Bear ' are inevitable. It would be lazy and ill informed, however, to claim 'Boiling Point,' the TV series is a carbon copy of 'The Bear'. Both are very different shows with different origins and d