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...

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...

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...

Directed by Shawn Levy, Free Guy is an American science action-comedy movie set to be released theatrically by the 20th Century Studios in the United States on May 21st, 2021. The release date for the film had been postponed twice due to the coronavirus pandemic. One of the cast members,...

Come what may, action movies remain heavily favored amongst moviegoers and so several action flicks are set to hit the screens in 2021. One of the most anticipated amongst them is Nobody even though it does not have a big-name star in its list of cast members. The Ilya Naishuller-directed movie...

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...

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 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...

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...

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....

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....

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...

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...

Ever since the reality TV series, Selling Sunset, premiered on Netflix in the year 2019, it has attracted an equal amount of fans and detractors. While the show has been praised as highly entertaining and fun for its portrayal of all the drama involved in the work and personal...

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...

With more than 150 million records sold worldwide, there is no doubt that Frank Sinatra is one of the greatest musicians to ever live. From Come Fly with Me to Only the Lonely, he released several records that not only established him as one of the best singers to...

Hollywood is brimming with glitz and glamour. Yet the few years have too great a transformation with  more nerdy girls being portrayed in the scripts of modern movies and TV shows. However, those seemingly geeky or unglamourous girls are not really bad-looking. Though they may seem ugly and too plain for Hollywood, but underneath those glasses and graceless clothings, there lies real beauty. Here are 10 ‘nerdy gals’ that look gorgeous in real life. Gillian...

There is no denying that the Academy Award is easily the most prestigious award an actor or actress can add to their resume in Hollywood. Winning one is hard enough but gaining multiple is nothing short of legendary; which is why the actors and actresses with the most Academy...

Following the resounding box-office success of the 1994 Walt Disney Pictures' animated animal film The Lion King, 2019 will forever be remembered as the year it was first remade in computer-animated format. Taking advantage of tech advancement over the intervening years, the current production is so photorealistic that the...

Owen Wilson's movie roles in comedy have been very popular and, of course, the comedian does not need any introduction to movie lovers all over the globe, particularly those who love the comedy movie genre. The award-winning actor has featured in a lot of comedy films such as Shanghai...