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Donald Trump will be inaugurated as the 47th president of the United States on Monday. The event has become an easy way for the rich and powerful to curry favor with the incoming administration. Trump’s inaugural committee has raised around $200 million since he won the election, according to The New York Times, which adds that major donors are being placed on wait lists or being told they will not be able to land VIP tickets.

The ceremony will be especially exclusive considering Trump announced on Friday that it will be held indoors,...

If you’ve ever ventured into Steam’s community forums, you know they can make Twitter (or “X”—whichever you prefer) look like a peaceful garden party. Now, as Donald Trump gears up for his return to the White House, an unlikely alliance might be forming around the need to clean up gaming’s biggest digital marketplace.

A bombshell report from the Anti-Defamation League (Adl) has revealed some eye-opening statistics about Steam’s community features, prompting Senator Mark Warner to demand answers from Valve’s top brass. And here’s where it gets interesting: the incoming Trump administration might actually be on board with cracking down on these issues, albeit for their own reasons.

Senator Mark R. Warner. | Image Credit: Mark Warner/Cc By-sa 2.0/Wikimedia Commons

With major releases like GTA 6 on the horizon and the gaming industry bracing for increased scrutiny, we might be witnessing a perfect storm where...

(L-r) Rhys-Muldoon, Hugh Parker, William McInnes and Colin Smith in the Qtc play (Photo credit: Jeff Busby).

In their third collaboration following Don’s Party and The Club, David Williamson and Bruce Beresford are developing Nearer the Gods, a biopic about Sir Isaac Newton, the eccentric 17th Century English scientist and mathematician.

Adapted from Williamson’s play which was staged by the Queensland Theatre Co. in 2018, the drama laced with humour will trace Newton’s struggles to persuade the sceptical Royal Society to publish his revolutionary discoveries including formulating the laws of motion and universal gravitation.

The comedy revolves the latter part of his life, much of which he dedicated to theology and predicting the end of the world and the second coming of Christ in the year 2060.

“It’s an amazing story; I’m surprised it hasn’t been filmed before,” says Beresford, who is working with producers Al Clark,...

Former special counsel Robert Mueller issued several reminders during his testimony before Congress on Wednesday. Russia wanted to put in Trump in the White House in 2016, he said, which we already knew. We also knew that Trump’s campaign welcomed this help, that Trump made concerted efforts to impede the investigation into the matter, and that, three years later, Russia is still working to interfere in American elections. As Mueller put it Wednesday, it’s happening “as we sit here.”

On Thursday, we learned something new: Russia’s interference in...

Woo Hoo! We’re girl-starved teen nerds, and we’re cooking up our own living sex toy with our home computers! John Hughes turns an infantile idea into one of his not-bad teen angst comedies, as Kelly LeBrock materializes to fulfill their wildest dreams. The idea is of course transformed into a basically benign coming-of age story … with the underlying message that we’d not all mind having Ms. LeBrock reformat our hard drive. It all begins as a bad arrested-development joke, but Hughes’ audaciousness and fine production values make this a nostalgic favorite for folk that miss their (ugh) 1980s memories.

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Arrow Video

1985 / Color / 1:85 widescreen / 94 min. / Street Date July 23, 2019 / 39.95

Starring: Anthony Michael Hall, Kelly LeBrock, Ilan Mitchell-Smith, Bill Paxton, Suzanne Snyder, Judie Aronson, Robert Downey Jr., Robert Rusler.

Cinematography: Matthew F. Leonetti

Film Editor: Chris Lebenzon, Scott Wallace, Mark Warner

Original Music: Ira Newborn

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