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Since their respective conceptions in the 1990s, there has always been a debate around IMDb and Rotten Tomatoes and their reputability. Which website is the most reliable when it comes to delivering accurate ratings on movies? While Rotten Tomatoes is renowned for relying on critical input from respected voices from the world of the film critic, and is arguably seen as the more discerning site, IMDb offers a wider, more diverse view on movies with the perspective of the “common man,” which is why it makes the website the most popular among the average filmgoer....

at Caucus FoundationFamed Producer Chuck Fries, President of the Caucus Foundation, invited us to attend their 23rd annual awards dinner at the Beverly Hills Hotel. Honors were presented to such luminaries as Suzanne de Passe (Producer of the Year), David E. Kelley (Writer) and Henry Winkler, Actor/Producer. Kelley, creator of such award winning shows as Ally McBeal, and Boston Public was not accompanied by his gorgeous wife, Michelle Pfeiffer, but there was no shortage of glamorous gals in attendance....

When we lived back East, the place to be on Easter Sunday was the Plaza Hotel. We loved donning our Easter bonnets, and, strolling down Fifth Avenue. Arguably, the place to be on the West Coast is the Four Seasons Hotel, where the food, if not the fashion, is fabulous. We spotted Seal and, Heidi Klum (along with their entire brood), Jennifer Young Hewitt, with a handsome young dude, perennially tan George Hamilton and former mate, Alana Stewart, and, of course, our good friends, Bob and Beverly Cohen, owners of the Hotel enjoying the boundless buffet....

DC launched the DCU in response to the Marvel Cinematic Universe, trying to imitate its rival’s success, even copying famous Marvel techniques like post-credit scenes. Yet, it only received negative feedback from fans and critics with mediocre earnings as the MCU dominated the box office and pop culture and DC lagged behind for over a decade. Even though Marvel is having some trouble recently with their MCU, DC still can’t catch up....

Spoiler Warning: Only Murders in the Building Seasons 1-2 Though there is no shortage of true crime podcasts, television series, and documentaries in the contemporary media landscape, there are few modern projects that attempt to satirize the true crime phenomenon. That’s where Only Murders in the Building comes in. Only Murders in the Building has an impressive cast of A-list actors. This includes, but is not limited to: Steve Martin as Charles-Haden Savage, a washed-up actor who formerly appeared on the fictional ’80s detective television series Brazzos; Martin Short as Oliver Putnam, a middling Broadway director; and Selena Gomez as Mabel Mora, who becomes involved with her older podcast co-hosts while renovating her aunt’s apartment....

A new documentary special delving into the Astroworld tragedy has been taken down from Hulu. On Wednesday, the 50-minute doc, titled Astroworld: Concert from Hell, was added to the streaming service. It has since been scrubbed from the streamer after a social media outcry accusing Hulu of capitalizing on the tragedy. To be clear, the documentary wasn’t a Hulu Original. It was produced by the ABC-owned Houston station KTRK. A Hulu spokesperson commented on the removal of Astroworld: Concert from Hell by telling Variety, “This was an investigative local news special from ABC13/KTRK-TV in Houston that originally aired on November 20th....

Spike Lee’s heist movie Inside Man took an estimated $29 million from the domestic boxoffice to become the No. 1 film in the marketplace, according to The Hollywood Reporter. Among the other new openers, Buena Vista Pictures’ PG-13 horror movie Stay Alive intrigued the teen audience, which rewarded it with an estimated $11.2 million and a third-place showing, but Lionsgate Films’ Larry the Cable Guy: Health Inspector had to settle for $7....

Mayim Bialik is now a movie director with the recent release of her latest film, As They Made Us, and we had a chat with the film’s executive producer Jonathan Benefiel about the project. Ahead of his work on the movie, Benefiel had started his career as an actor before delving into producing work. It has led up to this new film which partnered him up with Bialik and Dustin Hoffman, among others....

3,446 is the official number of Black people lynched in the United States between 1882 and 1968, according to the NAACP, though that is likely on the low end of the actual number. An average of 40 people lost their lives each year to these barbarous acts of murder. The 3,441st victim of the hideous displays of white supremacy was 14-year-old Chicagoan, Emmet Till. Director Chinonye Chukwu’s 2022 movie, Till, explores the events leading up to, during, and after Emmett Till’s murder trial, and the battle that his fearless mother, Mamie Till-Mobley, faced for justice....

Matthew Vaughn’s superhero movie X-Men: First Class is currently filming in London, with a release date set for June 3, 2012. MTV Splash Page was able to get a hold of James McAvoy, who plays a younger Professor Charles Xavier (a.k.a. Professor X), and he told the site how he planned on distinguishing his performance from Patrick Stewart’s earlier turns. Here’s what James McAvoy had to say: James McAvoy joked that he wanted to, “bury Patrick’s performance,” but meant that he doesn’t necessarily have to follow Patrick Stewart’s exact mannerisms, since this was a prequel....

The Good This collection really captures the brilliance of Jimmy Stewart. The Bad Some of the extras in this set left me scratching my head. James Stewart - The Signature Collection contains 6 films that give us a nice look at his career, while showing us the multifaceted roles this brilliant actor was able to pull off. Featured in this set are The Spirit of St. Louis in which Stewart plays famed aviator Charles Lindbergh in a film by Billy Wilder....

It all started before he was the apple of his mother’s eye, or least that is the story Jason Lives director Tom McLoughlin would like to tell. By now, most people know the fan-favorite Friday the 13th franchise has been tied up in a courtroom battle over rights issues with no real satisfactory resolution for another sequel. So how can McLoughlin transfer his dream story of the murderous Pamela Voorhees from paper to film without stepping on any of those tangled franchise rights?...

The actress comes back for the third installment of the horror series We last saw Jigsaw’s faithful assistant, Amanda reveal herself at the end of Saw II - and just as the mastermind of Tobin Bell has returned, so has Amanda in Saw III. Shawnee Smith has now made it through four torturing sessions with writer Leigh Whannell in the horror franchise (if you didn’t know, Leigh used the scene with Shawnee stuck in the jaw clamp to pitch the original idea)....

The two actors tell the true story of a man who turns to the world of drag queens to save his business British films seem to do very well in America. But why is that? Is it because we just don’t truly understand the jokes and just laugh anyway? Or is it because American’s just like to enjoy real humor? Well, in the same lines of The Full Monty comes Kinky Boots....

The Ghost Writer’s Jon Bernthal has joined AMC’s drama pilot Walking Dead. According to The Hollywood Reporter, in other cable pilot castings, Brandon Routh, Hal Linden, Amir Arison, Tina Majorino and Kevin Michael Richardson have joined TBS’ In Security, and Garcelle Beauvais, Reed Diamond and Dana Davis have boarded Franklin and Bash, another hourlong TBS pilot. Also at TBS, Tim Jo and Josh Brener have been added to the 1980s fraternity comedy pilot Glory Daze....

Jonathan Jackson plays The Walker in the upcoming adaptation of Susan Cooper’s novel The Seeker: The Dark is Rising is the first film to be adapted from Susan Cooper’s acclaimed book series of the same name. The story follows young Will Stanton, a boy whose everyday life is turned upside down when he learns that he is the last of the “Old Ones”. This group of immortal warriors has dedicated their lives to fighting the forces of evil....

Acclaimed actress Julia Stiles has joined the cast of Showtime’s Emmy nominated drama series Dexter. Stiles, who will appear in ten episodes in the upcoming fifth season, will play a mysterious young woman who forms a unique relationship with Dexter (Michael C. Hall) in the wake of the death of his wife. Production on season five begins this month and will premiere in the fall on Showtime. Called “one of the most fearless and talented actresses in Hollywood” by the Los Angeles Times, Julia Stiles has starred in three Shakespearean film adaptations: Hamlet, O, and 10 Things I Hate About You, for which she earned a 2000 MTV Movie Award for Best Female Breakthrough Performance and the Chicago Film Critics Award for Most Promising Actress....

John Wick star Keanu Reeves is playing things cautiously when it comes to John Wick: Chapter 5, with the actor saying that they are waiting to see how well audiences respond to the upcoming fourth outing. Speaking with Total Film, Reeves continues to be his usual humble self and is careful not to simply expect John Wick: Chapter 5 to be a foregone conclusion. Despite the franchise’s overwhelming popularity. The original plan was to shoot John Wick 4 and John Wick 5 back-to-back, but those plans were changed in order to concentrate solely on the fourth chapter....

Lebowski, The Big Retrospective: An Interview with Jeff “The Dude” Dowd A strange thought occurred to me the other day. I’ve seen every so-called “cult” movie of my generation during its original theatrical run. Maybe even a couple of times a piece. I saw Evil Dead 2 three times over the course of its opening weekend (March 13th, opposite Raising Arizona). Why? Because Roger Ebert told me too. I took my dad, and he thought it was pretty goofy....

In an interview with Total Film, Gemma Arterton let it slip that she will be starring opposite Andrew Garfield in Capa, a biopic about combat photographer Robert Capa directed by Michael Mann: Based on Susana Fortes’ award-winning novel, “Waiting for Robert Capa”, the film centers on the relationship between a young German woman called Gerta Pohorylle and a young Hungarian man called Endre Friedmann from when they met in Paris in 1935 until she died in the Spanish Civil war in 1937....