The most frustrating thing about the Harvey Weinstein scandal is that he hasn't faced any criminal charges. Sure, there have been some repercussions, after more than 50 women accused him of sexual harassment and assault. He's been fired from his production company, expelled from The Academy Of Arts and Sciences, and his wife, Georgina Chapman, is leaving him. Every day politicians and celebrities denounce him. He's turned from a famous movie mogul into a disgusting international punchline. But where are the charges? Currently Harvey's the subject of criminal investigation in four cities - Los Angeles, Beverly Hills, New York and London. Out of all those cases, what's the hold up? Let's do this! It's not fair that he's out running free. In fact, Harvey recently called into the newsroom at Page Six, and was defiant. He swore to "fight these accusations" and claimed he was already "planning a comeback." Really? As what? The Captain of the Perverts Club, with Kevin Spacey and Brett Ratner? While it's easy to try Harvey in the court of public opinion, bringing him to actual court is complicated. In an article by The Los Angeles Times, criminal prosecutors and attorneys explain the challenges each jurisdiction faces. For many cases, the alleged misconduct happened years ago, or decades ago. Some are well outside the statue of limitations. For others, physical evidence might not exist, and it might not be possible to find witnesses. Also, Harvey's formidable legal team is ready for war, and will have an opportunity to present any exonerating evidence. But there's some good news. The NYPD says they have a strong case to arrest Harvey for his latest sexual assault allegation: raping "Boardwalk Empire" star Paz de la Huerta twice. The first incident happened in November 2010. Paz says she was at the bar, and Harvey offered to give her a ride home. But instead of just dropping her off, he insisted on coming inside for a drink. Paz told her story to Vanity Fair: “Immediately when we got inside the house, he started to kiss me and I kind of brushed [him] away. Then he pushed me onto the bed and his pants were down and he lifted up my skirt. I felt afraid... It wasn’t consensual… It happened very quickly… He stuck himself inside me… When he was done he said he’d be calling me. I kind of just laid on the bed in shock.” Anybody else feel like taking a shower? Well, hold on, because it's about to get worse. One month later, Harvey showed off up at Paz's apartment again, totally hammered. And once again, he talked her into letting him inside the building. “I did say no, and when he was on top of me I said, ‘I don’t want to do this.’ He kept humping me and it was disgusting. He’s like a pig … He raped me." What makes this case so different? This time there's corroborating material: a letter from a therapist and a recording from a journalist confirming that she’s talked about the alleged rapes in the past. The leader of the investigation, Detective Nicholas DiGaudio, is optimistic. “I believe based on my interviews with Paz that from the NYPD standpoint, we have enough to make an arrest." Obviously, all of these probes - actually, let's not use the word "probes" when talking about Harvey Weinstein. All of these investigations are still in their early stages. It's going to take time for the detectives to share information and build cases. But here's hoping we get some results, and justice is finally served. Better late than never.

Ever since the allegations leveled against Harvey Weinstein came to light last year, the news hasn't stopped coming with regards to sexual misconduct in the film industry. We have seen a range of famous actors be accused of multiple counts of assault and harassment, and victims finding the courage to speak up and bring the truth to light.

There was the #MeToo hashtag that allowed women across the world to share their stories and support each other, while the widely-publicised #TimesUp campaign sought to create real change with regards to how victims of sexual misconduct are treated.

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Jennifer Lawrence has often been asked about the movement and the situations women may find themselves in when trying to make it in Hollywood. This is partly because she's one of the most famous actresses in the world, but also because she was the victim of the 2014 photo leaks, in which nearly 500 private photos of celebrities (mostly women) were stolen from the cloud and posted online.

Lawrence recently opened up to Oprah Winfrey about having her sensitive photos leaked. "I have such a fear with my phone and my computer and electronics,” she revealed in the interview. "It's taking somebody's intellectual property but also my body. It was violating on a sexual level."

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Now, the conversation has returned for a variety of reasons. For one, Lawrence's latest film Red Sparrow deals directly with issues of gender inequality. In the movie, she lays a Russian ballerina-turned-spy who is forced to use her body as a weapon, seducing and manipulating a CIA agent for her bosses.

On top of this, there was a recent debate over a publicity photo in which Lawrence was seen wearing a Versace dress in the freezing cold, while her male co-stars wore winter clothing. The actress later weighed in to clear things up, saying that it was her choice and she found the backlash "offensive".

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This likely sparked the discussion point returning in a recent interview with CNN, in which she was asked about the mistreatment of women in Hollywood. Lawrence explained:

"When I hear the harrowing stories of Harvey Weinstein's victims, I don't feel right putting myself in that exact category. I was certainly mistreated. I was definitely treated in a way that now we would call abusive.

“I had to deal with being young and I had to put up with executives or higher-ups putting their hands on my legs and not feeling like I could say, ‘Please don’t do that’".

She then went on to point out that we need to change how we talk about victims of abusive behavior such as this, and believe the women who have the courage to come forward:

“97 per cent of sexual abuse allegations are true – there’s the three per cent that isn’t. I feel, over the past, we’ve focused on the three per cent and it’s been so easy to say, ‘Oh, she’s lying.’

"If we create a community where survivors can come forward and talk, then there’s going to be change and there’s going to be no way of going backwards.”

Speaking on a more personal level with regards to the 2014 hacks, Lawrence recently opened up about how the nude photos being posted online affected her relationships.

From time to time, there will be a scandal coming out of Hollywood, where an actor is revealed to be difficult to work with, or some other star has stepped over the line. Yet over the last eight months, we have seen more and more instances of sexual misconduct being brought into the public eye.

It seems that those that never spoke up, due to threats or worries over whether their own careers will survive it, have now found the courage to speak openly about the toxic behaviour they have been witness to. The #MeToo movement and Time's Up campaign brought people together to tell their stories and highlight other men who have sexually assaulted or otherwise mistreated others in the movie industry, pushing for real change in the world.

At the center of this all is Harvey Weinstein, the now-disgraced movie producer who has been accused by countless women of misconduct since October. On Friday, eight months after the allegations first emerged, he has handed himself into the police. He arrived at the New York Police Department's first precinct, in the Tribeca area of Manhattan, at 7:15 am, where he will face charges of sexual assault.

The 66-year-old was charged with first and third-degree rape in one case and first-degree criminal sex act in another. The details of these particular victims have not been made public, but numerous women have publicly accused him of assault in the past, harassment and misconduct in Hollywood - including Kate Beckinsale, Rose McGowan, and Gwyneth Paltrow.

In fact, Italian actress, singer, and director Asia Argento recently made an incredibly powerful speech at the Cannes Film Festival. She started her speech by stating "In 1997, I was raped by Harvey Weinstein, here at Cannes," before she called out the people like him still working in the industry.

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It's fair to say that Weinstein's long overdue arrest has been seen as a historic moment and a small victory, with one image summarizing it all:

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The photo of female detective, Sgt. Keri Thompson, escorting Weinstein out of the courtroom in handcuffs has been retweeted from New York Times journalist Jodi Kantor's account over 5,000 times and liked over 20,000 times. Kantor, along with Megan Twohey, was the journalist that first broke the story about Weinstein in October last year.

The responses to this tweet show just how big of a moment this was for so many out there.

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Rose McGowan and Asia Argento, who have been two of the most prominent and outspoken women on the subject of Weinstein and sexual assault in Hollywood, also gave powerful reactions:

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It wasn't lost on Kantor the irony of the arrest taking place in Tribeca, home of the film festival where Weinstein conducted a large portion of his work.

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If found guilty, Weinstein could face up to 25 years in prison. However, there have been over 75 women accusing him of sexual misconduct, with investigations conducted against him in both London and California, so the charges may grow.

He was released on $1 million bail, and will be monitored electronically. His passport has been confiscated and he has been banned from travelling outside of New York and Connecticut during this process.

When this week disgraced movie mogul Harvey Weinstein was officially charged with the rape and several counts of sexual assault, many said that it seemed like the #MeToo movement had taken a massive step forwards. Finally, predators were being held accountable for their actions, amid a backdrop of women and men uniting for real change.

But sometimes, it still feels like with every new day comes another of our favourite celebrities being accused of sexual impropriety of some kind or another. Understandably then, many fans were disappointed when news broke on Thursday that The Shawshank Redemption actor Morgan Freeman had been accused of sexual harassment by eight women.

The accusations, initially published by CNN, included testimony from a young production assistant who said that Freeman subjected her to months of unwanted touching and comments about her appearance. She also said the actor: "kept trying to lift up my skirt and asking if I was wearing underwear."

After the revelations, Freeman was quick to a statement apologising any wrongdoing that may have occurred, intentionally or otherwise, saying: "Anyone who knows me or has worked with me knows I am not someone who would intentionally offend or knowingly make anyone feel uneasy. I apologise to anyone who felt uncomfortable or disrespected - that was never my intent."

However, now tapes have surfaced appearing to show a number of journalists also receiving uncomfortable comments from the star. In one, Freeman is seen hitting on reporter Ashley Crossan, who was interviewing him, initially asking if she is married. When she confirms that she is not he responds by saying: "Fool around with older guys? I’m just asking".

In another Freeman is heard saying to Entertainment Tonight correspondent Janet Mock: "I don’t know how you all manage to do that all the time … You got a dress halfway between your knee and your hips, and you sit down right across from me and cross your legs." Mock later said that she was offended by the comments.

After his initial note apologising for his behaviour, Freeman released a further statement saying that: "I am devastated that 80 years of my life is at risk of being undermined, in the blink of an eye, by Thursday's media reports.

"All victims of assault and harassment deserve to be heard. And we need to listen to them. But it is not right to equate horrific incidents of sexual assault with misplaced compliments or humour."

He also added: "As a part of that, I would often try to joke with and compliment women, in what I thought was a light-hearted and humorous way," going on to state that: "But I also want to be clear: I did not create unsafe work environments. I did not assault women. I did not offer employment or advancement in exchange for sex. Any suggestion that I did so is completely false."

Whether you view these as cheeky throwaway comments or a pattern of inappropriate behaviour is, I guess, down to you. But with more icons than ever being called out on their behaviour towards other, Freeman's story is proof that it's better to be safe than sorry.

The allegations of sexual harassment and abuse aimed at Harvey Weinstein have opened up a can of worms regarding misogyny and sexual assault in the film industry, and since the New Yorker's damning exposé, numerous Hollywood actresses and other important figures have spoken about their traumatising experiences. The #metoo hashtag has served to address social justice issues which have never been more pressing in moviemaking. But that doesn't mean that we should focus on cinema exclusively. There are many other industries in which the powerful are capable of silencing and exploiting the vulnerable. Even the typically-cheerful world of video games has suffered its fair share of scandal. A sexual harassment allegation every bit as indicting as Weinsteingate has threatened to bury one of the internet's popular video game forums. NeoGAF, which has been running successfully for the last 18 years, went offline last week, after the owner and founder Tyler Malka was accused of sexual harassment. The chaos began after film director Ima Leupp was inspired by the #metoo hashtag to make a post on Facebook, alleging that a former male acquaintance sexually harassed her in 2015 by climbing into her shower in her hotel room. Leupp apparently refused Malka's advances, since she was in a relationship at the time, and stated that Malka became extremely hostile towards her as a result of her rebuff. She wrote "I couldn't come out about this situation because the perpetrator is a semi famous man who would have retaliated and I couldn't afford to defend myself. There are websites devoted to this person's sexual assault history." After concerned friends asked her to name name and shame the man in question, she told them to "Google Evilore" - the online handle of Tyler Malka. Not long after this, screenshots of the Facebook post began showing up on the NeoGAF forums, only for the moderators to delete them and ban users posting them. According to one moderator on the site, Malka told the NeoGAF staff that the rumour "will be a never-ending clusterfu*k on [NeoGAF] now until the end of time, which inevitably involves you guys and gals on the mod team in some way, so I'm an open book here." In light of this incident however, a number of mods and admins decided to leave the site in protest against Malka's behaviour. Meanwhile, many NeoGAF users posted "suicide threads" in which they disparaged Malka so they could get themselves banned from the forum. As a result of these factors, as well as the increased traffic in the wake of Leupp's allegations, the site shut down for maintenance over the weekend of 20 to 22 October. Malka later released a statement in his own defence once NeoGAF was back online, writing: "An allegation of sexual misconduct has been made against me by an ex. It's not true, the individual making the accusation isn't credible, the story doesn't reconcile logically with the facts, and there's plenty of evidence and witnesses to corroborate that. It'll be a process. All allegations of this nature are serious, of course. I immediately talked with my mod team about the contents of the screenshot and clarified that it was baseless and explained some of the details concerning my former associations with her, and tried to ensure any concerns from the team were addressed fully and transparently to everyone's satisfaction." He added: "On Thursday I heard that she had deleted the accusation from Facebook, and wasn't entirely sure how to proceed from there or how this would all play out in the public space at that point. Then, Friday morning, the screenshot made its way to NeoGAF and chaos ensued." Malka also stated that he would be trying ensure that discussion on the forum remained relevant to video games only, and that users should avoid discussing political subjects which would prove to be divisive. Many NeoGAF users found this apolitical pledge to be suspicious and hypocritical considering the allegations. Malka has previously been vocal about his own purportedly progressive politics, advocating support for the Paris Agreement and gay marriage, and has also donated thousands to the American Civil Liberties Union and expressed support for woman affected by GamerGate - a previous scandal which involved allegations of misogyny and sexist hate speech in the video games industry. Yet despite this, a number of users have claimed that they have been banned from the site for making progressive arguments. [[twitterwidget||https://twitter.com/NeoGAF/status/712456742488006656/]]   NeoGAF began as "The Gaming-Age Forums" for gaming website Gaming Age. As Gaming-Age outgrew its hosting, IGN took over hosting of Gaming-Age's forums in the interim, until the Gaming Age Forums were able to host themselves independently in 2006. Since then, it's been one of the most popular places to discuss video games on the internet. Yet after the sexual harassment accusations surfaced, a number of users have decided to migrate from the NeoGAF forum to a new Discord server. The future of the site and its founder remains uncertain.