InFamous

The US Department of Justice and more than a dozen states have filed a lawsuit against Apple in federal court, accusing it of violating antitrust laws by making its hardware and software products largely inaccessible to competitors. Apple's "walled garden" approach to business, as it's so often called, makes it difficult for rivals to compete and for customers to switch to other companies' products. The lawsuit comes on the heels of the European Commission slapping Apple with a €1.8 billion ($1.95 billion) fine. Apple,…

In 2022, the 94th Academy Awards show became synonymous with the slap that caused buzz around the Internet. Chris Rock, who was hosting the biggest night in Hollywood, was slapped by Will Smith after he made a joke about wife Jada Pinkett Smith’s shaved head, referencing G.I. Jane. Following the incident, Smith won an Oscar for Best Actor for his performance in King Richard. Now, two years later, while Smith won’t be attending the 2024 Oscars due to his ban, there are reports that Rock is back in town, coincidentally…

Now searching for a new owner: Downtown Los Angeles high-rise rich in colorful anecdotes from its history, albeit most quite haunting. Offers units overlooking Skid Row, many stubbornly vacant. Best known for the Netflix series about the dead body found in a water tank on its roof. The building is the infamous Cecil Hotel, which was transformed in recent years into a privately funded supportive-housing complex for the formerly homeless. A new owner wouldn’t technically acquire the property at 640 S. Main Street but would…

Trigger warning: domestic violenceEllen DeGeneres’ Oscars selfie made way for a haunting aftermath, as a decade later, the fortunes of celebrities featured in the infamous pictures, such as Kevin Spacey, Brad Pitt, and others, took a sinister turn. Some may go as far as to speculate that the star-studded snap was cursed.In 2014, Ellen took the unforgettable yet ill-fated selfie at the 86th Academy Awards, herding popular Hollywood stars together. Since then, so many of the featured celebrities have seen their fortunes…

It’s a good time to be a Godzilla fan. The massive monster was just in a huge hit movie from Japan, and the Western interpretation of the character, while perhaps not hitting quite the same heights, is still going strong through Legendary’s MonsterVerse. This wasn’t always the case however, as Hollywood’s previous attempt at a Godzilla movie was a famous failure, though Godzilla Minus One’s director prefers to focus on what the movie did well.Speaking with MovieMaker, director Takashi Yamazaki, who has made arguably the…

2022 was a very successful year for actress and comedian Jenny Slate. She was fortunate enough to have roles in two great A24 movies- Marcel the Shell with Shoes On and Everything Everywhere All At Once. While the SNL alum felt like a star that night wearing a dress she loved, she reveals a wild wardrobe malfunction story where that dress was left “half-cracked” at last year’s Oscars.Jenny Slate looked classy at the 95th Annual Academy Awards wearing a jet-black top-corseted Thom Browne dress. But as beautiful as Slate…

He’s also guy who boasted several Guinness World Records, including one for being the person “who has worked on the most video games in their lifetime” (his mother’s very proud) with over 300 credits. Problem was, only about 100 of those credits were verifiable, and Guinness reworded the record to read “most prolific videogame music composer” before nixing the record altogether.Well, you can buy his house — y’know, the one he (falsely) claimed was on MTV Cribs — for $3 million. Honestly, for that price, seems like a…

One of the big draws of Final Fantasy 7 Rebirth is how the sequel is preparing to explore brand-new territory now that the original's Midgar portion has been completed. That doesn't mean that the established lore of the game is being abandoned, as one of the most pivotal moments from the 1997 RPG has been faithfully recreated and is available to experience in the Final Fantasy 7 Rebirth demo.For anyone familiar with the game, you'll know just how important Nibelheim is to the story of Final Fantasy 7. The…

It has been over 20 years since the release of Lost In Translation, and it is widely considered to be one of the best films of the 2000s. The critically-acclaimed 2003 Sofia Coppola-directed film stars Bill Murray as Bob, an aging American actor who finds his star power to be dimming, so he ends up traveling to Japan to participate in commercials. At the hotel he’s staying at, he meets Charlotte, played by Scarlett Johansson, who has accompanied her photographer husband on a trip.The two lonely individuals spend time…

In April 2023, a 54-year-old programmer named Gary Bowser was released from prison having served 14 months of a 40-month sentence. Good behaviour reduced his time behind bars, but now his options are limited. For a while he was crashing on a friend’s couch in Toronto. The weekly physical therapy sessions, which he needs to ease chronic pain, were costing hundreds of dollars every week, and he didn’t have a job. And soon, he would need to start sending cheques to Nintendo. Bowser owes the makers of Super Mario $14.5m…