There are some stories so far-fetched, outlandish, and ultimately unbelievable that they can’t be anything other than true, with 2003’s overlooked and severely underrated Stander telling one of the most incredible. Recommended Videos Featuring arguably the best performance of Thomas Jane’s career, the actor stars in the title role of Andre Stander, a well-to-do police officer in apartheid-era South Africa. Unbeknownst to everyone but his illicit associates, the captain becomes so disillusioned after the killing of an unarmed man that he goes ahead and robs 26 banks while still employed as a law enforcement official.

A forgotten sci-fi movie is dominating Netflix today, as Netflix users around the globe are lapping up oft-overlooked alien invasion flick The 5th Wave. The film, starring Chloe Grace Moretz, is currently ranked as the tenth most popular title on the streaming giant’s global chart, as per FlixPatrol. Recommended Videos Based on the popular YA book series of the same name by Rick Yancey, 2016’s The 5th Wave sees Moretz as teenager Cassie Sullivan, who must try to survive in a world devastated by the waves of an alien invasion that have already decimated the population and knocked mankind back to the Stone Age.

As a general rule of thumb, almost every single one of the action movies regarded among the finest ever made features at least one instance of the hero using a gun to mow down reams of interchangeable goons, but not once during Brian De Palma’s Mission: Impossible does Tom Cruise use a firearm. Recommended Videos It’s a fascinatingly overlooked fact, one that obviously wasn’t kept up through the rest of the franchise, but it just goes to show you don’t need to bust out the heavy artillery in order to deliver explosive greatness.

Sure, One Piece is packed with endless adventures, but sometimes the fans want to get a little deeper into the beloved Straw Hats themselves. While the anime doesn’t shy away from interesting backstories, some personal information is often forgotten. Recommended Videos For example, when’s Luffy’s birthday? Is Nami simultaneously loyal and unpredictable because she’s a Cancer? These little quirks feel a little bit closer to anime’s favorite pirates, so their identities are definitely worth exploring.

Anime NYC announced today that passes for the 2022 anime convention will go on sale at the end of March, along with plans for a reimagined event.  Recommended Videos The move follows event organizer LeftField Madia’s promises to overhaul the con following a string of organizational challenges facing the event, which accommodated over 50,000 attendees in Manhattan’s Jacob K. Javits Convention Center in New York City over four days last November.