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Donna Summer’s family is feeling the opposite of love for Kanye West. In a new lawsuit filed Tuesday, Summer’s husband Bruce Sudano alleges West and collaborator Ty Dolla $ign engaged in “blatant theft” when they sampled Summer’s iconic 1977 hit “I Feel Love” on their recently released Vultures 1 song “Good (Don’t Die).” The copyright infringement complaint says West and Ty Dolla $ign, whose legal name is Tyrone Griffin, “shamelessly” stole the instantly recognizable hook from Summer’s disco classic after they…

A woman captured the moment a man encroached on her space while at the gym, sparking outrage online and debates about men intimidating women in public spaces. Taking to her TikTok page, British fitness instructor Charlie posted a video where she was filming herself giving a weightlifting tutorial. Unfortunately, her work was abruptly interrupted when a man came up behind her and dropped a heavy dumbbell right behind her.The space invader, who has remained unnamed, quickly moved away, leaving the heavy piece of gym…

via Sony As far as blatantly transparent cash-grabs designed explicitly to cash in on a hot trend go, they don’t come more egregious than I Know What You Did Last Summer. After Wes Craven’s Scream turned the entire slasher genre on its head to give the tiring format a self-aware and wonderfully fresh coat of postmodern paint, it was inevitable that a deluge of imitators would follow. Funnily enough, Ghostface creator Kevin Williamson had just the screenplay he’d already written, which was then rushed through…

Once Steven Spielberg had changed the course of cinema forever with the game-changing release of Jaws in 1975, it was inevitable that multiplexes would be swamped with a deluge of thinly-veiled imitators, and even straight-up ripoffs. Orca: The Killer Whale is most definitely one such movie, but that appears to be part of its enduring charm. To be fair, the 1977 hybrid of open water thriller and low-rent creator feature boasts a shocking amount of talent on either side of the camera, from the presence of legendary…

Image via New Line Cinema When you think of J.R.R. Tolkien’s The Lord of the Rings many iconic characters spring to mind. Hobbit heroes like Bilbo, Frodo, Sam, Merry and Pippin, wizards Gandalf and Saruman, noble warriors like Boromir, Faramir, and Aragorn and, of course, whatever the hell Tom Bombadil is supposed to be. But now a new Twitter poll with almost 100,000 responses has named the top 50 Tolkien characters and we’re scratching our heads in confusion. You might expect the top five to be formed of faves…