As a general rule, fans of the crime genre tend to greatly appreciate the thrillers well-born about ill-born characters. The loot does, more or less, check in both categories. Initially, it's a story about police officers who seem like consummate professionals until a particular seizure tempts them down the path of corruption because of a confiscated sum of cash that literally throws them off balance. Since everything has its owners, this incident leads them to step into a veritable hornet's nest of criminals: suddenly it's not just about doing the right thing, but about saving their lives from drug traffickers with the mannerisms of big-time businessmen and deadly, ruthless methods.

"And this is news?" is the question we often see in the comments on news stories about tabloids and pop culture. And, obviously, these aren't news stories that make the front pages of newspapers, but they are issues we often discuss with friends or family around a table or at the bar. And this is what we do in this podcast: we go to a local location to review some news from the social chronicle that serves not only to keep up with the most important gossip, but also to talk about love, friendship, and breakups.

Ben Affleck and Jennifer Lopez had a romance that captured the world's tabloids in the early 2000s. They were the youngest and most successful couple of the moment, and their plans to get married were a cherry on top that no media outlet could resist. The same thing happened with their breakup and the cancellation of their wedding plans. Their extremely complicated schedules and pressure from the press ruined a potential Hollywood wedding that had become a Western fairy tale. That relationship collapsed. took shape again in their twenties, when those young people were no longer so young, but their fame was just as great, if not greater. In 2021, the two stars fell in love again, and in April 2022, they announced that they were engaged to finally carry out what capricious fate had so cruelly prevented them from doing when they were young.

The final scene ofThe accountant, thriller An action film with a baffling premise (to put it mildly) that was released in 2016 to mediocre reviews and decent box office success, it offered a glimpse into the direction its sequel would take. In that film's finale, Christian Wolff, the autistic accountant/math genius/money laundering expert/military-trained assassin who played Ben Affleck with the sad energy of a wet dishcloth, he met his brother Braxton, played by a bragging, charismatic and talkative Jon Bernthal.

Seven months later from the divorce with Jennifer LopezBen Affleck has spoken publicly about the breakup. He did so in an extensive interview with the magazine GQDuring the conversation, the journalist asks him about the documentary The greatest love story never told, which revolves around marriage. Specifically, he asks about a scene in which López explains that they are people with private lives but as artists they have a public dimension, and Affleck appears to be in a resigned mood. The actor has now explained that he participated in the documentary because he considered it "an interesting test," and has admitted that López's way of embracing fame is much more expansive than his, who considers himself more reserved.