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Blac Chyna's ex-boyfriend alleges in a new lawsuit that she beat him in his sleep

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Blac Chyna's ex-boyfriend alleges in a new lawsuit that she beat him in his sleep

Blac Chyna’s ex-boyfriend has filed a domestic violence lawsuit against the reality television personality, claiming she physically and verbally abused him over the course of their three-year relationship.

Taiyon “Twin” Hector alleged in a Tuesday filing in Los Angeles County Superior Court that Blac Chyna — who now goes by her birth name, Angela White — “would regularly drink alcohol, and use other drugs, to excess” and when under the influence was “physically violent and verbally threatening and abusive.” The couple dated from 2000 to 2023.

The abuse reached its peak in 2021, according to court documents reviewed by The Times, when the former “Keeping Up With the Kardashians” cast member allegedly violently ambushed Hector while he was sleeping. He is suing the model-entrepreneur for civil assault, civil battery, intentional and negligent infliction of emotional distress, and premises liability — and seeking more than $10 million in damages.

White did not reply immediately Friday to The Times’ request for comment.

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In his filing, Hector cited previous testimony from White’s former fiancée Rob Kardashian and his famous family, who said she “has a propensity for verbal abuse and extreme physical violence toward her domestic partners and others, primarily when she consumes alcohol.” Kardashian and White share a 7-year-old daughter, Dream.

The former exotic dancer, 36, previously faced domestic abuse allegations from Kardashian and in 2016 was arrested on a misdemeanor charge of public intoxication and a felony charge of possession after an incident at a Texas airport. The disturbance arose after a bartender refused to serve White the amount of alcohol she wanted, The Times previously reported.

“Almost anything could send Defendant into a violent rage at any time of the day or night,” even when she wasn’t drinking, Hector’s filing said. “Without warning, in the middle of conversations or during her basic interactions with Plaintiff, and others, Defendant would devolve into a rage, and immediately begin throwing violent punches, shoves, slaps and kicks at Plaintiff.”

White also allegedly threatened several times to kill her ex-boyfriend “in his sleep” — a remark that Hector said nearly came to fruition one night in 2021. The attack began when Hector was “completely asleep” in their shared Woodland Hills home, the filing said. White’s two children were also in the home at the time of the incident, the lawsuit said.

In her “most violent attack yet,” the account continued, White “pushed, shoved, kicked, punched, and threatened to kill and/or cause great bodily harm,” pinning Hector’s arms down with her body weight so he was unable to defend himself. Then she called her private physician.

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When the doctor arrived, the filing said, “Defendant’s hands were still bloodied” and Hector was “in shock.” After delivering immediate treatment, the physician recommended Hector see a plastic surgeon to treat “various open wounds on his face and body” as well as an ophthalmological surgeon and a neurologist. He also advised Hector to speak with a psychiatrist, given his “obvious emotional distress.”

Since the attack, Hector has suffered from “severe insomnia” and “disturbed sleep,” the complaint said, adding that “nearly every night, at least once, Plaintiff awakes fearing, and temporally sensing, he is being beaten and attacked, and facing imminent death, if he does not awake and react.”

“The right to be free from domestic violence is not limited to women. During police investigations this fact is all too easily forgotten,” Hector’s attorney, Kirk Edward Schenck, said Friday in a statement to The Times.

“While women unfortunately make up the majority of victims, men are all too often the victims of domestic violence, but are disincentivized to come forward because of law enforcement and societal presumptions that they must be the aggressor. We hope this case shines a light on this unfortunate and unjust faulty presumption.”

Although she is never mentioned in Hector’s complaint, White’s mother, Shalana Hunter, a.k.a. Tokyo Toni, took to Instagram Friday to claim responsibility for the attack.

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“I really didn’t mean to hurt him this bad but when you are upset over yours and others, keep trying you and then they try you again you come see them. Why tell that loud on my little girl!!!,” Hunter wrote in one of several posts referring to the incident.

“Tell the truth!!!!!!!! I told you I was going to,” she said in a separate post, directly addressing Hector. Both posts featured a photo of Hector’s injured face. The photo was taken after the 2021 attack and included in this week’s filing.

Hector and White began dating in August 2020 and officially separated in March 2023. While Hector said in the complaint that he “wanted the relationship to work” and repeatedly “begged” White to seek medical and/or psychological treatment, she always refused.

White has since recommitted to her Christian faith and pledged sobriety, she told The Times earlier this year.

“I was drinking, I just had to open up my eyes and realize it,” she said. “And then not even just in front of people, even in private. A lot of times, we do things in private, or try to hide things from people, but once you start being real with yourself, that’s when you start to really see or realize certain things, and your life is just going to get better.”

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Jeremy Schuetze’s ‘ANACORETA’ (2022) – Movie Review – PopHorror

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Jeremy Schuetze’s ‘ANACORETA’ (2022) – Movie Review – PopHorror

PopHorror had the chance to check out Anacoreta (2022) ahead of its streaming release! Does this meta-horror flick provide interesting story telling or is it a confusing mess.

 

Let’s have a look…

Synopsis

A group of friends heads to a secluded woodland cabin for a weekend getaway, planning to film an experimental horror movie. As the shoot progresses, the project begins to fall apart—until a real and terrifying presence emerges from the darkness.

Anacoreta is directed by Jeremy Schuetze. It was written by Jeremy Schuetze and Matt Visser. The film stars Antonia Thomas (Bagman 2024), Jesse Stanley (Raf 2019), Jeremy Schuetze (Jennifer’s Body 2009), and Matt Visser (A Lot Like Christmas 2021)

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My Thoughts

Antonia Thomas delivered an outstanding performance as the female lead in Anacoreta. It was remarkable to watch her convey such a wide range of emotions with authenticity and depth. I was continually impressed by her ability to switch seamlessly between different dialects. I absolutely loved her delivery of the dialogue of telling The Scorpion and the Frog fable.

Anacoreta employs a distinctive, meta-horror style of storytelling. The narrative follows a group of friends creating a “scripted reality” horror film, and as the plot unfolds, the boundary between their staged production and their actual lives becomes increasingly blurred. This was interesting, but at the same time frustrating as a viewer.

Check out Anacoreta on Prime Video and let us know your thoughts!

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Todd Meadows, ‘Deadliest Catch’ deckhand, dies at 25

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Todd Meadows, ‘Deadliest Catch’ deckhand, dies at 25

Todd Meadows, a crewmember on one of the fishing vessels featured on the long-running reality series “Deadliest Catch,” has died. He was 25.

Rick Shelford, the captain of the Aleutian Lady, announced in a Monday post on Facebook and Instagram that Meadows died Feb. 25. He called it “the most tragic day in the history of the Aleutian Lady on the Bering Sea.”

“We lost our brother,” Shelford wrote in his lengthy tribute. “Todd was the newest member of our crew, he quickly became family. His love for fishing and his strong work ethic earned everyone’s respect right away. His smile was contagious, and the sound of his laughter coming up the wheelhouse stairs or over the deck hailer is something we will carry with us always.

“He worked hard, loved deeply, and brought joy to those around him,” he added. “Todd will forever be part of this boat, this crew, and this brotherhood. Though we lost him far too soon, his legacy will live on through his children and in every memory we carry of him.”

A fundraiser set up in Meadows’ name described the deckhand from Montesano, Wash., as a father to “three amazing little boys” who died “while doing what he loved — crabbing out on Alaskan waters.”

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According to the Associated Press, Meadows died after he was reported to have fallen overboard around 170 miles north of Dutch Harbor, Alaska.

“He was recovered unresponsive by the crew approximately ten minutes later,” Chief Petty Officer Travis Magee, a spokesperson with the Coast Guard’s Arctic District, told the AP. The Coast Guard is investigating the incident.

Meadows was a first-year cast member of “Deadliest Catch,” the Discovery Channel reality series that follows crab fishermen navigating the perilous winds and waves of the Bering Sea during the Alaskan king crab and snow crab fishing seasons. The show debuted in 2005. No episodes from Meadows’ season has aired.

Deadline reported that the show was in production on its 22nd season when the incident occurred, with the Shelford-led Aleutian Lady being the last of the vessels still out at sea at the time. Production has subsequently concluded, per the outlet.

“We are deeply saddened by the tragic passing of Todd Meadows,” a Discovery Channel spokesperson said in a statement that has been widely circulated. “This is a devastating loss, and our hearts are with his loved ones, his crewmates, and the entire fishing community during this incredibly difficult time.”

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Meadows is the latest among “Deadliest Catch” cast members who have died. Previous deaths include Phil Harris, a captain of one of the ships featured on the show, who died after suffering a stroke while filming the show’s sixth season in 2010. Todd Kochutin, a crew member of the Patricia Lee, died in 2021 from injuries he sustained while aboard the fishing vessel, according to an obituary. Other cast members have died from substance abuse or natural causes.

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‘Hoppers’ review: Pixar’s best original movie in years

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‘Hoppers’ review: Pixar’s best original movie in years

“So it’s like Avatar?” one character quips in Disney and Pixar’s “Hoppers,” bluntly translating the film’s high-concept premise for the sugar-fueled kids in the audience. And yes, the comparison is apt. The story follows a nature-obsessed teenage girl who manages to quite literally “hop” her consciousness into the body of a robotic beaver in order to spark an animal rebellion against a greedy mayor determined to bulldoze their forest for a freeway. 

It’s a clever hook. The kind of big, elastic idea Pixar used to make look effortless. “Hoppers” does not reach the rarified air of “Up,” “Wall-E,” or “Inside Out,” but after a stretch of uneven originals like “Turning Red” and “Luca,” and outright misfires such as “Elemental” and “Elio,” this feels like a genuine course correction. The environmental messaging is clear without being preachy, the animals are irresistibly anthropomorphized, and the studio’s once-signature emotional sincerity is back in sturdy form.

Pixar can afford to gamble on originals when it has a guaranteed cash cow like this summer’s “Toy Story 5” waiting in the wings, but “Hoppers” earns its place in the catalogue. Director Daniel Chong crafts a warm, heartfelt film that occasionally strains under the weight of its own ambition, yet remains grounded by character and theme. Its meditation on conservation and animal displacement feels timely in a way that never tips into after-school-special territory.

We meet Mabel, voiced with bright conviction by Piper Curda, as a child liberating her classroom pets and returning them to the wild. Her moral compass is shaped by her grandmother, voiced by Karen Huie, who imparts wisdom about nature’s sanctity. True to both Pixar tradition and the broader Disney playbook, this beacon of guidance does not survive past the opening act. Loss, after all, is Pixar’s favorite inciting incident.

Years later, Mabel is still fighting the good fight, squaring off against the smarmy Mayor Jerry, voiced with slick menace by Jon Hamm. He plans to flatten the glade where Mabel and her grandmother once found solace. Mabel’s resistance feels noble but futile. The animals have already mysteriously vanished, the machinery is coming, and her last-ditch plan involves luring a beaver back to the abandoned forest in hopes of jumpstarting the ecosystem.

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That’s when the film gleefully pivots into mad-scientist territory. At Beaverton University, Mabel discovers her professor, voiced by Kathy Najimy, has developed a device that can project human consciousness into synthetic animals. The process, dubbed “hopping,” allows Mabel to inhabit a robotic beaver and infiltrate the forest from within. It’s an inspired escalation that keeps the film buoyant even when the plotting grows predictable.

Her new posse includes King George, a lovably beaver voiced by Bobby Moynihan with distinct Bing Bong energy; a sharp-tongued bear voiced by Melissa Villaseñor; a regal bird king voiced by the late Isiah Whitlock Jr.; and a fish queen voiced by Ego Nwodim. As is often the case with Pixar, even in its lesser efforts, the world-building is meticulous. The animal hierarchy, complete with titles like “paw of the king,” is layered with jokes that play for kids while slyly winking at adults.

The plot ultimately follows a familiar template. Scrappy underdog rallies community. Corporate villain twirls metaphorical mustache. Emotional third-act sacrifice looms. At times, you can feel the machinery working a little too cleanly. Pixar, and Disney at large, has grown increasingly reliant on sequels and established IP, and “Hoppers” does not radically reinvent the wheel. In an animated landscape where films like “K-Pop: Demon Hunters,” “Across the Spider-Verse,” and “Goat” are pushing stylistic and narrative boundaries, being safe and sturdy may not always be enough.

And yet, there is something refreshing about a Pixar original that remembers how to tug at the heart without squeezing it dry. “Hoppers” is playful, peppered with cheeky needle drops, and builds to a sweet emotional catharsis that may or may not have left this critic a little misty-eyed. It feels earnest and engaged. 

“Hoppers” may not be top-tier Pixar. But it is a welcome return to form, a reminder that the studio still knows how to marry big ideas with a bigger heart.

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HOPPERS opens in theaters Friday, March 6th.

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