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Food is the way to the heart…and also your wallet!

And Giada De Laurentiis knows how to maneuver both. If you’ve ever watched Food Network — or any cooking show with Bobby Flay — you’ve probably heard of this culinary superstar.

Cooking expert Giada De Laurentiis has become wealthy due to her work hosting several Food Network shows (Credit: Tinseltown / Shutterstock)

A New Chapter with Amazon Studios

In early 2023, Giada De Laurentiis left the Food Network after 21 years and signed a multi-year deal with Amazon Studios.

This powerhouse of a woman is one of the richest chefs in the world and an incredible culinary artist.

Giada has become a household name for many home chefs, but if you aren’t familiar with your home kitchen — or with Giada — let’s recap this chef’s background, career, and how she accumulated a net worth of $30 million!

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It’s been a busy week for new Netflix releases so far, and below, we’ll recap all the new arrivals and highlight a few we think you should be watching right now. We’ll also take a look into what’s currently trending in the Netflix top 10 charts for January 11th, 2024.

Want to see what’s still lined up for the rest of January 2024? We’ve just updated the list of upcoming titles here, and it now includes a bunch more licensed movies scheduled for next week, such as the Kiera Knightley movie: Silent Night.

We should also note that Netflix re-added its lineup of Nike sports training videos, which departed at the beginning of the month. Our understanding is that they’re on a short-term relicense, but hopefully, we’ll know more soon.

Best New Movies and Series on Netflix for January 11th, 2024 After Everything...

"He's a very dangerous man." Drafthouse Films has revealed a new US trailer for a wacky weird, strange documentary film titled Mister Organ, the latest from New Zealand journalist / director David Farrier. This premiered at last year's Fantastic Fest in Austin and we featured the original trailer back then. Some will remember Farrier's previous doc film Tickled, another deep dive into a strange and unexplainable world of tickling, which he followed up with the "Dark Tourist" series. In this new doc, Farrier is drawn into a game of cat and mouse with a mysterious individual - a man creating havoc in his own neighborhood, wheel clamping cars at a local antique store. Delving deeper he unearths a trail of court cases, royal bloodlines and ruined lives, in this true story of psychological warfare. Who is this guy?! What a wacko. I am such a huge fan of David Farrier! Reviews...

Sara Dosa, India’s Shaunak Sen and Canada’s Daniel Roher, directors of three documentaries which recently picked up Academy Award nominations, are set as speakers at the upcoming Australian International Documentary Conference.

The Aidc this week announced the full program for its 2023 event which will place in person in Melbourne March 5-8, with an online only international marketplace March 9 -11.

Dosa is the director of “Fire of Love,” Sen director of “All That Breathes” and Roher director of “Navalny.”

Other notable speakers include New Zealand’s David Farrier (“Dark Tourist”), acclaimed Aboriginal filmmaker Dean Gibson, (“Incarceration Nation”) and Australian filmmaker Emma Sullivan ( “Into The Deep”).

With Agents of Change as its unifying theme, the conference will host over 40 sessions, 120 speakers and more than 100 key decision makers from major broadcasters, streamers, distributors and sales agents.

On the business front, Aidc will see an extensive line-up from global streamers in attendance,...

"I know there must be more to this car park terrorist." Madman Films in Australia has unveiled the first official trailer for a crazy investigative documentary titled Mister Organ, the latest from Kiwi journalist / director David Farrier. Many of you may remember Farrier's previous doc film Tickled, another deep dive into a strange and unexplainable world of tickling, which he followed up with the "Dark Tourist" series. In this new film, Farrier is drawn into a game of cat and mouse with a mysterious individual - a man creating havoc in his own neighborhood, wheel clamping cars at a local antique store. Delving deeper he unearths a trail of court cases, royal bloodlines and ruined lives, in this true story of psychological warfare. Who is this guy?! What a wacko. I am such a huge fan of David Farrier! He rules. I very much appreciate how brave and bold he...

David Farrier has made his mark in the past several years with documentaries with off-beat subjects like 2016’s “Tickled” and his 2018 Netflix series “Dark Tourist.” Now, he’s back with his latest feature, “Mister Organ,” about perhaps his most weirdest subject yet.

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The upcoming doc follows Farrier as he becomes interested in the titular Michael Organ, a wheel clamper in New Zealand.

Continue reading ‘Mister Organ’ Trailer: David Farrier’s Goes Down The Rabbit Hole Again With New Doc Premiering At Fantastic Fest at The Playlist.

Michael Cudlitz and Jake Abel and have signed on to star alongside Zhang Hanyu and Vivienne Tien (Be Yourself) in Unspoken, a dramatic feature from writer-director Daming Chen that is now in production.

Unspoken tells the story of Xu (Zhang), an estranged father separated from his deaf daughter and her new life at an American university, whose murder reunites them in a way neither could have foreseen. The tragedy pierces Xu with grief and guilt that he couldn’t be present to protect his child. An ex-cop himself, he becomes convinced the local authorities are pursuing the wrong suspect – and that racism is compromising the investigation.

With a young Chinese translator in tow (Tien), who is navigating her own challenging path as a young immigrant, Xu sets out to learn what really happened to his daughter.

The Fukushima Disaster and its consequences have been a theme for a number of documentaries, movies and even TV shows (“Dark Tourist” comes to mind). However, the current situation in the areas that were hit from the nuclear wave the most has not been explored much (if at all) yet. Ryuichi Shimada deals exactly with this subject by shooting a documentary about the people of Hirono, a city located 20 km away from the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Station. Immediately after the Great East Japan Earthquake, the whole town was forced to evacuate. In 2019, 80% of the population at the time of the earthquake is back in town…

“Hirono” is available from “Article Films”

Shimada takes a rather close and thorough look of how life is progressing in Hirono, by focusing on people from different demographics. A number of elderly, who begun living in temporary housing until their houses are restored and decreed safe.

Japan's Reconstruction Agency and Fukushima Prefectural Government are considering legal action over the episode of Netflix's Dark Tourist, which visited places still dealing with the aftermath of the March 2011 triple nuclear meltdown.

The episode, the second in the series released on the streaming giant July 20, sees New Zealand journalist David Farrier visit Japan, with just more than half of the program following him on an organized bus tour through areas near the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Plant.

Farrier and the other tourists become concerned as the readings on their Geiger counters showed radiation higher than they were ...