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Breaking the law, one laugh at a time. When disillusioned law-school dropout Milo Carter stumbles across an absurd statute about pickle quality, he doesn’t just roll his eyes, he sparks a revolution. Along with his chaotic comedian best friend Tina Morales, anxious tech genius Raj Patel, fiery historian Clara Nguyen, and golden-retriever-hearted himbo Dave Thompson, Milo hits the road in a beat-up RV nicknamed The Lawnmower on a mission to “yeet” America’s strangest laws. From Connecticut’s bouncing pickles to Alabama’s Sunday domino ban, every state brings new stunts, new fines...

Two hearts. One jukebox. And the Roy Orbison song that could bring them back together. In 1989 Lubbock, Texas, the oil bust still bruises the town, but inside the flickering glow of the Starlight Lounge, cabaret singer Lila Monroe and record store clerk Jesse Harper find something worth believing in: each other, and the soaring heartbreak ballads of Roy Orbison. When their romance ignites during an Orbison look-alike contest, it feels like fate. But lies, fear, and dreams bigger than Lubbock tear them apart. As Lila lands a life-changing contract in Los Angeles and Jesse struggles with ...

What if the rumors that Paul McCartney really died in 1966 were true… and the cover-up was orchestrated by pigeons, psychedelic cults, and a sentient record player named the Vinyl Oracle? Welcome to The Fab Façade: The Rise of Faul, a kaleidoscopic fever dream of Beatlemania, brainwaves, and backmasked breadcrumbs. When a Scottish oddball named Billy Shears stumbles into a Paul McCartney look-alike contest by accident, he unwittingly becomes the linchpin of the most ludicrously elaborate conspiracy in pop culture history. Selected by a shadowy cabal known as the Order of the Saffron Veil...

Berlin, 1989. The Wall is cracking. History blares from boomboxes and whispers through cassette hiss. And in the chaotic hours after the border opens, two strangers collide under a flickering streetlight, one waving a sign that reads “HOFF = HOPE”, the other clutching a Walkman and a forbidden song. Lena Müller, an East Berlin dreamer with DJ ambitions and a scarf stitched from rebellion, has spent years recording banned music in secret. Jonas Becker, a West Berlin mechanic-poet with a mullet and a KITT replica in his garage, believes in freedom, Hoff, and the radical power of ...

A brass clock. A Christmas Eve wish. A love story that refuses to stay in its own century. On Christmas Eve, 1944, antique-shop owner Ivy Calloway unwraps more than gingerbread and ration coupons when a mysterious man delivers a brass clock said to bend time itself. One slip of the key later, Ivy stumbles straight into 2026, a world of drones, phones, peppermint bark stands, and one very stubborn, very modern doctor named Jack Carter. She just wants to go home. He just wants her to stay. The problem? Every tick of the clock drags Ivy closer to an impossible choice: the family she left ...

Brighton, September 2025. Mara Ellison runs Echoes, a tiny record shop haunted by memory and rain. For her, The Cure’s “Pictures of You” is more than a song, it’s a lifeline back to her late mother, and the scars she hides behind shelves of vinyl. Leo Alvarez is a DJ chasing shadows, still grieving the brother he lost and the call he ignored. For him, only the deep cuts matter: The Cure's introversion, Joy Division’s despair, Siouxsie’s gothic edge - songs that echo what he can’t say out loud. Thrown together for the Venice Biennale’s pop-up art festival, their clash of ...

Love was forbidden. Music made it inevitable. In the beating heart of Medellín, where rhythms clash with revolution and love blooms amidst struggle, Sofía, the fierce and fearless daughter of a police chief, dares to dance to her own beat. Drawn not to power or protection, but to Julián, a soulful footballer-turned-graffiti artist pulled between his dreams and the shadows of the gangs he once knew, Sofía finds her world flipped upside down at a Shakira concert that changes everything. From midnight bootleg tapes to rooftop hip rolls, from alleyway kisses to city-wide flash mobs, their ...

When Ruth Ellison opens The Last Bookshop in the fading Cotswolds village of Willowby, she’s looking for more than just a fresh start. At 48, reeling from a divorce and a lifetime of what-ifs, she’s poured everything she has, emotionally and financially, into restoring a dusty old shop filled with creaky floors, forgotten first editions, and a cat named Brontë with an attitude. She wasn’t expecting Graham Hargrove, a reclusive former literary star with a tweed cap, a bruised past, and a knack for quoting poetry when it’s least convenient. Nor was she expecting a leather-bound ...

What’s a betrayed tech queen to do when she’s booted from her own company, slandered in the press, and hunted by holiday scandal? Disappear, obviously, into a flannel shirt, fake glasses, and a new life as a scruffy handyman named “Rory.” Rose Landon was once Denver’s brightest startup star, until her smarmy CFO Felix Duke staged a corporate coup and painted her as the villain. With her empire stolen and the world watching, Rose escapes to Pinewood Hollow, a snow-dusted ski town straight out of a Christmas movie. Her late uncle’s cabin offers a hideaway. A job at the local eco-...

In the shadowed streets of 1980s Beijing and the neon pulse of Tokyo, where cassette tapes are currency and rebellion hums beneath every beat, two hearts are set to collide, moonwalk first. Li Mei is a fearless singer performing Michael Jackson covers in the underground clubs of Beijing, dodging police raids and parental expectations. Taro Suzuki is a Tokyo DJ chasing fame, locked in a battle between duty and desire, culture and creation. Their rivalry begins with sparks, an argument at a Hong Kong fan contest over Thriller’s soul, but deepens with every duet, every clash, every whispered...

What if the soundtrack of your life was written by Neil Diamond? Brooklyn, 1973: Eli Rosenberg, a clumsy, wisecracking record-store clerk with big dreams and even bigger shoelaces to trip over, meets Maria Sullivan, a fiery Catholic artist with paint on her hands and rebellion in her heart. They shouldn’t work, his Jewish family wants him to stay in line, her Irish clan wants him to stay away, but Neil Diamond’s songs pull them together, chorus after chorus. From the neon buzz of Coney Island to the cracked vinyl bins of Eli’s shop, from shouting matches with parents to late-night ...

In the glitter-stained shadows of New York’s queer nightlife, where Studio 54’s ghost still echoes and drag queens preach gospel in disco boots, two souls collide in a symphony of strobe lights, sequins, and survival. Eli Abrams is a shy FIT fashion student with a heart full of sketches and scars, haunted by high school taunts, ignored by his father, but burning to make art that speaks louder than shame. Sasha Verma is a rising singer with a voice that could split galaxies and a past she’s fought tooth and nail to reclaim, trans, brilliant, and done being polite. They meet under a ...

An Elvis-inspired romantic comedy with a Bollywood beat Vikram “Vik” Sharma is more than Mumbai’s most enthusiastic Elvis impersonator, he’s a dreamer with a record shop, a rhinestone jumpsuit, and a heart that refuses to play by tradition. Priya Kapoor is a fiercely creative artist, torn between her family’s expectations and her own longing for freedom. When she stumbles into Vik’s shop, sparks fly to the sound of “Love Me Tender.” But there’s one problem, she’s already engaged, her family depending on the dowry her marriage will bring. From monsoon-soaked Mumbai ...

In the mid-90s, before streaming, before healing apps, before anyone dared call their chaos trauma, there were mixtapes. And some of them saved lives. Seattle, 1990something. A city drenched in rain, distortion pedals, and the ache of what might have been. Sam is a soft-spoken romantic trying to stay sober in a world that celebrates collapse. Nina’s heart is all elbows and noise, constantly breaking and never bothering to heal. Ellie only trusts in scissors and staples, cutting zines, cutting people, cutting herself off. Mia hides her longing behind piercings and punk shows. Jasper’s ...

In the chaos of 2025 Austin, where Swifties rule the internet and heartbreaks trend by sunrise, three ex-bandmates reunite for a comeback, Nora is a bass-playing, eyeliner-smudged lyrical firestorm who still dreams in bridges. Soren is a soft-voiced heartbreaker hiding behind metaphors and cardigans, terrified of being seen. And Cassian is the beat-building ghost in the machine - always producing, and quietly carrying a truth that could unravel everything. Their band, Streetlights & Shadows, had one viral moment, Now, as a surprise track leaks, fandom frenzy explodes, and speculation swirls...

SOMETIMES THE LAST THING YOU WANT IS THE THING YOU NEED MOST Across the crowded terminal at Sydney Airport, disillusioned travel blogger Grant watches touring English musician Nina steal a bottle of vodka, and impulsively he steps in to help her avoid arrest. When this chivalrous act makes Grant miss his flight, he’s forced to take a last minute job chaperoning his new least favorite person around the city he’s grown to hate, to cover the cost of a new flight, twenty four hours later. As the straight-laced Grant chases the free-spirited Nina across town, he becomes increasingly ...

It started with a twenty-dollar note and a horse named Superhero Spree. Harry Foster was six years old when he placed his first bet. That “cheeky punt” lit the fuse on a life consumed by the rush of racing odds, scam hustles, and the toxic high of chasing the next win. Now a reformed gambler, ex-con, and barely-holding-it-together single dad, Harry’s trying to claw his way back, for his daughter, for his sister Jess, and for the misfit recovery group known as the Blinking Toads. But the house always wins. As gambling tycoon Norris Brooks tightens his grip on Melbourne’s betting ...

El amor estaba prohibido. La música lo hizo inevitable. En el latido del corazón de Medellín, donde los ritmos chocan con la revolución y el amor florece en medio de la lucha, Sofía, la feroz e intrépida hija de un jefe de policía, se atreve a bailar al ritmo de su propio compás. Atraída no por el poder ni la protección, sino por Julián, un futbolista convertido en artista de grafiti con alma, atrapado entre sus sueños y las sombras de las pandillas que una vez conoció, Sofía ve su mundo patas arriba en un concierto de Shakira que lo cambia todo. Desde cintas bootleg de ...

She gave him the song that made him famous. He gave her a name the world would never forget. Neither of them ever truly moved on. In the sticky heat of a 1995 London summer, Nelly Griffin, a sharp-tongued Australian ex-pat with a broken filter and a soft heart, meets Tim Chaucher, a floppy-haired nobody busking in a Camden pub. He can’t tune a guitar to save his life, but when he sings, something in her unravels. They fall, messily, ferociously, completely. Two years later, as Tim is on the brink of Britpop superstardom, Nelly is faced with a secret, and she flees. Back home in rural ...

In the soft-lit hum of a small English town in the late 1970s, where polyester reigns and repression hangs thick in the air, two girls find each other across the shelves of a struggling record shop. Nora Whitman is the sensible one: bookish, buttoned-up, and quietly counting the days until she can leave suburbia behind. Charlie Green is all chaos and cheekbones: a sharp-tongued ABBA devotee with a talent for zine-making, a rainbow collection of band tees, and an unshakable belief that disco can save your life. When a fumbled ABBA lyric and a shared enemy in the town's resident moral ...