The Critic/Audience Divide Expands Further With ‘Transformers 3’ Film critics have been overwhelmingly negative towardsMichael Bay’s latest filmTransformers: Dark of the Moon, yet average moviegoers seem to love the film.Transformers 3earned a rotten 38% rating onRotten Tomatoeswith 186 critic reviews counted, yet 90% of the 60,137 Flixter users liked the threequel. It should be noted that the user rating onIMDbis 7.0, but the sample of user votes is much less — around 5,300....

The Henry & June Controversy Explained: The First NC-17 Movie If you’ve ever doubted the power of film, look no further than the influence of the Motion Picture Production Code. Better known as the “Hays Code,” named for the Motion Picture Producers and Distributors of America (MPPDA) president Will Hays, the regulations steered Hollywood studios in a wholesome direction, creating an idyllic cinematic portrayal of America that existed throughout the Golden Age of cinema....

The Interesting Way Snowpiercer Episode Titles Are Named The late movie mogul Samuel Goldwyn once joked, “What makes a good movie title is a hit.” The issue still leaves film and television producers tossing in their sleep wondering, “What’s in a name?“The Wrapoffers some insight into the naming process for movies, noting that it begins with the script and can become a years-long process. For television, the process is a bit different....

The Morning Watch: An Epic ‘Home Alone’ Gingerbread House, Creating The Sword Of ‘Mulan’ & More The Morning Watchis a recurring feature that highlights a handful of noteworthy videos from around the web. They could be video essays, fanmade productions, featurettes, short films, hilarious sketches, or just anything that has to do with our favorite movies and TV shows. In this edition, get an up close look atMichelle Wibowo’s epicHome Alonegingerbread house created in honor of the film’s 30th anniversary....

The Morning Watch: Morbius Honest Trailer, Tom Cruise Puts James Corden In A Top Gun Jet & More (The Morning Watchis a recurring feature that highlights a handful of noteworthy videos from around the web. They could be video essays, fan-made productions, featurettes, short films, hilarious sketches, or just anything that has to do with our favorite movies and TV shows.) In this edition, we have an Honest Trailer for the film “Morbius,” which one assumes could write itself....

The Water Cooler: ‘Big Brother’ Season 19, ‘The Secret History Of Hollywood’ Podcast, And A Great Time Travel Board Game We may receive a commission on purchases made from links. Welcome toThe Water Cooler, a weekly feature where the /Film staff is free to go off-topic and talk about everythingexceptthe movies and TV shows they normally write about. In this edition: Ethan Anderton is watchingBig Brotherseason 19 and enjoying the hell out of it, Peter Sciretta playedEscape From 100 Million B....

This Week In Trailers: Wind & Rain, The Lachrymist, Blue Ruin, The Great Chicken Wing Hunt, Awful Nice Trailers are an under-appreciated art form insofar that many times they’re seen as vehicles for showing footage, explaining films away, or showing their hand about what moviegoers can expect. Foreign, domestic, independent, big budget: What better way to hone your skills as a thoughtful moviegoer than by deconstructing these little pieces of advertising?...

UFC Champion Georges St-Pierre Joining ‘Captain America: The Winter Soldier’ DirectorsAnthonyandJoe Russoare courting some big names for small roles in their superhero sequel,Captain America: The Winter Soldier. Last weekRobert Redfordwas announced to be in talksfor the film and now it looks like one of the greatest fighters in the world has been cast, too. Latino ReviewreportsGeorges St-Pierre, considered one of the greatest mixed martial artists in the world and the current UFC Welterweight Champion, has been cast as a villain named Batroc the Leaper....

Wake Up Screaming: Seven Social Horror Films to Prep You For ‘The First Purge’ We may receive a commission on purchases made from links. The Purgemovies are the unruly branch on the otherwise upright"social horror"filmic family tree. Exploitation movies to their very core, with each installment the futuristic franchise (that’s built on the idea that, for one night in America, all crime is legal) has widened in scope, beginning with a home invasion on the titular devil’s evening (The Purge), then taking us to the city streets amidst government sanctioned chaos (Anarchy), and finally letting us see the corrupt political mechanisms (Election Year) that believe it will be psychologically beneficial for the citizens who participate, but even more lucrative for the companies who try and exploit it for financial gain (insurance, medical, etc....

Watch The Official ‘Star Wars Rebels’ Recap To Catch Up Before The Final Season Begins Monday, October 16 brings the first episode of the fourth season of the animated seriesStar Wars Rebels. Hailing from Disney XD,Star Wars Rebelswas the first new TV program to be created at Lucasfilm after Disney had bought the company with a plan for revamping Star Wars and launching a barrage of new stories in various forms of media....

WTF: Now Pez Candy Is Getting A Movie Too Hot on the heels of the mind-numbing news that Sony Pictures Animationis making an Emoji movie, yet another mystifying movie is in development based on a familiar property. In contrast to the basis for the Emoji movie, this particular property is 88 years old. At some point in your life, you’ve likely encounteredPez candy, the chalky, fruity, antacid-like sugar tablets dispensed from trademark containers featuring popular characters whose heads lift open and to push out candy....

Box Office Tracking: Halloween Headed For Labor Day Record Michael Myers is ready to slash his way to an all-time 4-day Labor Day weekend record, and, by Monday, he’ll pass Jigsaw to become the 4th-biggest grossing movie “killer” in modern box office history. The original 1978 John Carpenter film HALLOWEEN is, for my money, the scariest of all scary movies. Donald Pleasance is just over-the-top enough when the nurse says, “Don’t you think it would be better if you referred to ‘it’ as a ‘him’?...

Gigantor! Ghost In The Shell’s Mamoru Oshii To Direct Live Action Tetsujin 28-Go Movie I think that we should first of all indulge in a little primer onTesujin 28-goakaGigantor, my favourite giant robot of all – because, yes, I do like some giant robots, honest. Created in the mid-50s as a Manga series,Tetsujin 28-gotells the story of a three-storey tall robot invented to help fight on behalf of Japan in World War 2....