Showbiz and TV

In a bid to satisfy the increasing appetites of movie critics and viewers and also outdo their previous performances, filmmakers, over the past decade, have spent eye-watering amounts to make the best movies. A large chunk of the million-dollar budget usually goes to the special effects team, whose duty is to create outstanding visuals and sounds. A cast with...

The modern world may have increased the chances of survival for the human population and helped us experience parts of earthly life in a way that we may not have if not for technological and social development. However, these improvements haven’t come without cost. There has been additional stress, particularly mentally to the day to day life of the...

She was once a model who graced the front of several magazines, from fashion to car brands and was one of the most popular models during her time. When her career as a model ended, she transitioned into television hosting and being a cook with her own published cookbooks. If you know who we are talking about, then you...

For nearly three decades, Judy Sheindlin has held sway as the most popular TV judge in the world. This is thanks to her courtroom show, Judge Judy, which debuted in 1996. Since its launch, Judge Judy has grown to become the most-watched daytime show in the world with an average of nine million viewers each day. The show has...

If the love-hate relationship between celebrities and entertainment reporters is to be believed, then Lisa Joyner, who is married to the actor - Jon Cryer, can be said to be sleeping with the enemy. The nationally recognized reporter has been in the industry for decades, working for a number of television houses as an entertainment reporter. While she has a...

Jerry Springer may have been famously derided as the host of trash TV but that has not stopped him from emerging as one of the wealthiest TV personalities in the world with an estimated net worth of $60 million. Much of this fortune comes from his controversial eponymous show which ran for nearly three decades and evenly polarized opinions...

The first season of Mark Worman's automotive reality series, Graveyard Carz, kicked off on Motortrends in June 2012. But during the second season which premiered in January 2013, Mark realized the need to accompany the activities of the show with research documents that would serve as reference materials in the future. Thus, he hired a research assistant named Holly...

Since Fox Television brought Hell’s Kitchen to our screens in 2005, giving Americans a taste of the excellence of international chef, Gordon Ramsay, it has been one of the most popular cooking shows on television, with millions tuning in to watch every week. In the many years that Hell’s Kitchen has been on television, it has aired more than...

We probably all yearn for the yesteryears' kinds of stuff (music, dressing, lifestyle, etc) at some points in our lives. It is this same desire to bring back some of the past that led Mark Worman and his colleagues (Aaron Smith and Casey Faris) to create Graveyard Carz, a Motortrends' reality series that focuses on the efforts of a...

The Real Housewives franchise has widely been viewed as a reality version of ABC's fictionalized soap opera Desperate Housewives which aired for eight seasons between October 2004 and May 2012. Set in a fictional city and state and using fictional characters, Desperate Housewives revealed the unattractive secrets and struggles behind the perfect-looking lives of suburbian families. Taking this theme...

Hollywood is an industry focused on selling fiction to the masses in a way that is believable or at least has a real effect on them. But even for an industry worth over $50 billion that was built on make-believe stories, sometimes, reality can be more unbelievable than fiction. Part of the hallmarks of Hollywood is turning interesting and...

Treasure Hunting is a concept many will be familiar with. For book readers, their knowledge of the concept is likely to have come from a book like Treasure Island, while for movie followers, the popular Disney franchise, Pirates of the Caribbean is a good explanation of the idea. While the stories in these creative projects may have been fictional,...

Usually, graphic love acts depicted in movies can be too transgressive even though they are often simulated with tricks; pillows between themselves, prosthetics and body stockings. Actors also do fake push-ups to get their muscles swelling out with an improvised movement. However, not all steamy scenes are stimulated. In some scenes, actors actually perform the real deeds that seems like a bad...

Ever seen the American dance competition reality TV show, Dancing With the Stars? It is an ABC network show and the US version of UK's Strictly Come Dancing. The reality TV dance show first premiered on 1st June 2005 and has so far completed 27 successful seasons. Currently, in its 28th season in 2019, the dance show has seen...

Hollywood may not be all there yet in terms of gender equality but it is certainly making progress with the release of more female-led and female-directed flicks. It is also bringing out several female superheroes, something that used to be a novelty back in the day, and one of the most anticipated in 2021 is none other than Black...

Everyone - or, maybe, almost everyone - is looking to make more money. No doubt, one of the most favored sources from which to gain the inspiration for financial smartness is by watching money-themed movies. So, to help you choose rightly, we have here the 12 best finance movies that really tell a lot about money. Many of the...

Depending on who you are, your opinion of commercials could either be love or hate. A lot of people do not appreciate the interruptive nature of commercials, while some enjoy them for the little dose of creativity they bring to their viewing experience. Whatever your opinion is about commercials, one thing is constant, they can be really expensive things...

Since the 1950s, a time when the television set had become a prominent feature in every household, game shows have been a regular source of entertainment for people around the world. Viewers tune in to not just get a chance to find answers to some of the most intriguing questions but also watch potential game show winners contesting for...

Big-budget action blockbusters are not the only movies lucrative enough to morph into franchises. Even animated films are also accomplishing similar feats, and an excellent example of this is the family comedy, Peter Rabbit 2: The Runaway. Revolving around the hilarious and heartwarming adventures of a group of rabbits as they go head to head with their human neighbors, the...

The reality TV show, Pawn Stars has become one of the most successful series coming from History Channel. After debuting in July 2009, the show has become the second-highest-rated in the history of reality series. While Pawn Stars has become highly successful, it has equally brought many of its cast to mainstream success, hence contributing to their massive net...

It is no longer news that the iconic Hollywood film, Coming 2 America, is a 2021 movie that serves as a sequel to the original 1988 film starring Eddie Murphy. This sequel, which is coming about 33 years after the original film, features a healthy dose of new faces. Several of the original cast members are also set to...

The covid-19 pandemic adversely affected the global film industry in 2020, closing cinemas and halting productions. It, therefore, meant a reduction in the number of new releases that made their way to the market. Thankfully, the pandemic is relatively under control and this has given Hollywood the impetus to once more bless us with new films. One of the...

Spiral, the ninth installment in the Saw film series, features Samuel L. Jackson and Chris Rock as the prominent cast members. Like the previous Saw installments, the upcoming movie equally has an intense torture-body horror. It follows the story of a bold detective who works in the shadow of a reputable police veteran. He then finds himself at the center of a serial killer's morbid...

Sequels and reboots are all the raves in Hollywood at the moment and another movie that will be getting its own reboot is the Mortal Kombat film series. An adaptation of a popular video game of the same name, Mortal Kombat was first released in 1995 and was a commercial and critical success as many hailed it for staying...

Godzilla vs Kong is the fourth installment in Legendary Entertainment's MonsterVerse film series. The cast members of the American monster film are mostly new faces with only three reprising their roles from the third installment, Godzilla: King of the Monsters (2019). Following the long delay in the theatrical release of the movie by Warner Bros. Pictures, fans of the...