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The Securities and Exchange Commission has charged Shanchun Huang with allegedly inflating Future FinTech Group’s share price just before he took over as the company’s chief executive.The SEC alleged in a complaint Thursday that Huang used manipulative trading techniques in early 2020 to push the fintech firm’s share price up, with the goal of preventing it from being delisted from the Nasdaq exchange.Copyright ©2024Dow Jones & Company, Inc. All Rights Reserved. 87990cbe856818d5eddac44c7b1cdeb8 The Securities and…

“FRIENDS” actor Matthew Perry’s demise has created a void in his closed ones’ lives. He died on October 28 this year and his death has become a mystery for many of us. Well, everyone knows about Matthew’s addiction. But his cause of death remained unknown till his autopsy report got viral and now one of his close friends who chose to be anonymous made serious allegations about his drug addiction and that news was shocking for many. Matthew was in a coma for two weeks due to his drug addiction, but after that,…

Google has filed a lawsuit in the northern district of California against two men who allegedly used the DMCA takedown request mechanism to try to remove competitor URLs from the search results. The lawsuit writes that the “defendants have weaponized copyright law’s notice-and-takedown process and used it not for its intended purpose of expeditiously removing infringing content, but instead to have the legitimate content of their competitors removed based on false allegations.” The lawsuit. You can read the PDF…

It might sound cynical to criticize a Turkish romantic comedy for sending out the wrong messages to impressionable audiences, but that doesn’t mean Netflix’s sequel Love Tactics 2 doesn’t have a seriously questionable approach to romance. Picking up where the opening installment left off, Demet Özdemir’s Asli and Sükrü Özyildiz’s Kerem are in a relationship, but it isn’t long until the question of marriage comes up. Over dinner, she states her case that matrimony is nothing but a sham and a scam, and he wholeheartedly…

“The Son strives to be a devastating and insightful family drama, but it ends up feeling more like a shallow, emotionally manipulative exploration of misery.” Pros Hugh Jackman's intense lead performance Laura Dern's complex supporting turn An engrossing opening act Cons Vanessa Kirby and Zen McGrath's underwhelming performances…

Antoine Fuqua’s thuddingly unsubtle Will Smith-starring slavery drama is an unusually ugly picture. And while you can make a case that the facts of slavery cannot and should not be prettified, Fuqua’s approach, both in the relentless grind of graphic cruelty and the grim, near monochrome sludge of the cinematography, makes for a gruelling endurance test of a viewing experience.Smith, fresh from his Oscar-winning performance in King Richard last year, delivers a physically committed turn as a character loosely based on a…

Ellen DeGeneres Once Again Called Out Over Her Toxic Behaviour ( Photo Credit – Instagram ) Ellen DeGeneres is once again being called out over her problematic behaviour. For the unversed, the famous comic and actress has hit the headlines several times after being a part of controversies that involve her being rude, toxic environment on her set, and more. It is said that the Finding Nemo actress has often talked down to the crew. Not just that, but she has also been called out by fans who have noticed her crude…

Dir: Darren Aronofsky; Starring: Brendan Fraser, Sadie Sink, Hong Chau, Samantha MortonFirst seen masturbating as he watches online porn, Charlie (Brendan Fraser), the main character in The Whale, isn’t just morbidly obese; he is a lumbering leviathan of a man, so immensely fat that he can barely manoeuvre himself off his couch, let alone leave his apartment. He sweats profusely, vomits into dustbins and almost chokes on the junk food he gorges himself on. “Who would want me to be part of their life?” he asks plaintively…

Dir: Darren Aronofsky; Starring: Brendan Fraser, Sadie Sink, Hong Chau, Samantha MortonFirst seen masturbating as he watches online porn, Charlie (Brendan Fraser), the main character in The Whale, isn’t just morbidly obese; he is a lumbering leviathan of a man, so immensely fat that he can barely manoeuvre himself off his couch, let alone leave his apartment. He sweats profusely, vomits into dustbins and almost chokes on the junk food he gorges himself on. “Who would want me to be part of their life?” he asks plaintively…

This strident and heavy-handed Mandarin-language drama imagines a collage of stories unfolding in Wuhan as the first, terrible wave of the pandemic broke. A husband and wife, both medics, reunite in their car each night where they snatch a few hours of sleep between shifts; their daughter, alone with her piano in their apartment, bickers with the neighbours. A selfless building manager, responsible for distributing supplies to the quarantined residents, starts to cough. Even if it were less mawkish and manipulative in…