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A judge in southern Italy on Monday ordered film director Paul Haggis released from detention at his hotel while prosecutors decide whether to pursue their investigation of whether he allegedly had sex with a woman without her consent over two days, his lawyer said.Michele Laforgia told The Associated Press that his client Haggis, who is also a screenwriter and an Academy Award winner, was still in Italy. The ruling was made by Judge Vilma Gilli, based in Puglia, which is the region that forms the “heel” of the Italian…

A judge in southern Italy on Monday ordered film director Paul Haggis released from detention at his hotel while prosecutors decide whether to pursue their investigation of whether he allegedly had sex with a woman without her consent over two days, his lawyer said. Michele Laforgia told The Associated Press that his client, who is also a screenwriter and an Academy Award winner, was still in Italy. The ruling was made by Judge Vilma Gilli, based in Puglia, which is the region that forms the “heel” of the…

Fobia: St. Dinfna Hotel is a new horror game, but it clearly takes its cues from genre classics like Silent Hill and Resident Evil. That's most apparent when it comes to its confounding puzzles, seen throughout the game. If you find yourself stumped by the game's back-tracking, item combinations, or otherworldly camera, use our guide to solve all puzzles in the first of three acts in the game. Here's how to get through the game's first section in the hotel, including the elevator puzzle, finding a tricky…

Any time of year, you can find it here Every so often, I jump into a could-go-either-way indie game knowing just a basic bullet point or two. In the case of Fobia – St. Dinfna Hotel, a survival horror game from Brazilian studio Pulsatrix, that lack of exposure ended up leading to an overall pleasant surprise. To quickly catch you up to speed: this game has undeniable shades of Resident Evil 7‘s first-person horror and inventory management, with a huge emphasis on solving puzzles, and there’s a surprisingly deep story to…

Nearly 60% of Americans said they were worried about hidden cameras in Airbnb homes in 2019.And 11% of vacation home renters said they had discovered a hidden camera during a stay, according to a survey by the real estate investment company IPX1031.Spy cameras are not a new problem. In South Korea, more than 30,000 cases of filming with hidden cameras were reported to the police between 2013 and 2018, according to the New York-based non-profit organization Human Rights Watch.The number of hidden spy camera reports has…

The Umbrella Academy TV show has always been a very loose adaptation, but the core premises of the first two seasons — stopping Viktor from ending the world and trying to stop the JFK assassination — correlate directly to those of the comics’ first two volumes. But in season 3 of the Netflix drama, showrunner Steve Blackman orchestrates one of the biggest deviations from the the Umbrella Academy comics yet by giving us a completely new spin on the third volume’s titular Hotel Oblivion. What is Hotel Oblivion in the…

Sometimes, advance planning just isn’t possible: you need a room in a hotel, and you need it as quickly as possible. Open up your web browser or smartphone and you’ve got a range of options for getting a place to lay your head in the next few days, without also paying over the odds to book it.Of course, some trial and error is required—this isn’t always an exact science—but you should at least be able to maximize your chances of getting a room cheaply. The good news is that if hotels do have spare capacity for tonight or…

Boosie Badazz took to Twitter Thursday to tell his side of the story after a video of him confronting a man outside of an unknown hotel went viral. “You ain’t gonna talk to her like that. I would beat your ass if you talked to me like that. You not gonna disrespect a woman like that,” Boosie can be heard saying in the clip, which shows him surrounded by hotel employees who seem to be trying to de-escalate the situation.  His remarks in the moment appear to suggest Boosie got involved because he felt like the man was being…

The Prince Rupert hotel in Shrewsbury is the kind of establishment where you’re offered a glass of sherry as you check in. A timber-framed oasis of fluffy towels and four-poster beds, its guests have included Margaret Thatcher, Monica Lewinsky and the Liverpool football team. Yet at the start of the pandemic, owner Mike Matthews, who had formerly managed Barbados’s Sandy Lane resort, made the decision to welcome a rather different clientele: the city’s rough sleepers.Some hadn’t slept in a bed in decades. Many were in the…

Despite high inflation, a softening economy, and fears of a recession, the hotel industry is not seeing any slowdown.It's the exact opposite, with Hilton CEO Chris Nassetta predicting that the hotel chain will "have the biggest summer we've ever seen in our 103-year history this summer."Few industries were hit as hard as travel by the Covid-19 pandemic, which curbed nearly all leisure and business travel plans. But as vaccination rates and loosened restrictions have spread across the country, travelers have returned. In…