Don’t worry, we’re not talking about some diamond-encrusted Barbie or a mini-Lamborghini.  No, these toys are somewhere in a closet and, quite possibly, you might have played with them in your childhood.  They are hard-to-find toys and collectibles that, for whatever reason, are holy grails in the collecting world.  Right now they could be sitting in your [...]

No other television show has boasted such a high degree of talent than Saturday Night Live.  Many big names in comedy over the past four decades have made a name for themselves through the show.  On the other end of the spectrum, many comic actors have been hired for the show and were unsuccessful at [...]

According to some knowledgeable people, A History of Violence is the last movie a major studio pressed onto the VHS format. The reason is simple: VHS is a mostly dead format and most people prefer DVDs nowadays. Seeing a demand for them,  many major studios have been pushing out as much of their catalog onto [...]

Audiences have been tuning into game shows since the popularization of television because they are not only exciting, but educational.  This staple endures because it is win-win:  easily produced in Hollywood, and easily produces in viewers the desire for positive life change.  For over 60 fun-filled years, these programs have made us cheer as we [...]

I grew up as a kid watching Abbott and Costello movies which, though terribly corny by modern standards, were hilarious to me at the time.  I especially enjoyed the interplay between straight man and comic, and marveled at how they could keep up such an amusing banter so effortlessly. Of course, I later learned it [...]

It’s been two years since Saturday Night Live attempted a film based on one of their recurring characters (MacGruber).  It sucked.  Before that, it had been TEN years between movies (Ladies’ Man).  That one REALLY sucked.  In fact it’s pretty much the definition of public knowledge that, aside from Blues Brothers and the first Wayne’s [...]

For some reason, movie studios aren’t content with the millions of dollars they make off of hit movies. Even after the avalanche of money that a hit movie makes, studio executives try to milk every single penny out of a franchise. There are ill-conceived sequels, over the top merchandising, and, worst of all, terrible cartoon [...]

In programmes such as Top Gear, the cars are placed in the limelight, but over the years cars have played an important role in other types of TV shows such as dramas and comedies. Cars have become such an intrinsic part of our everyday modern life that we even dedicate entire TV shows to them. [...]

Sometimes, the TV character that you remember long after the show went off the air was not the one originally intended to be the star. Here are the ten greatest rises from TV sidekickdom to stardom- characters who were originally intended as side characters (sometimes even as one-episode guest stars) gradually outshining the star of [...]

Ever since the days of silent film, audiences have crowded into theaters to see films that push the envelope of action and suspense.  One of the biggest crowd-pleasers are incredible stunts.  Professional stuntmen in Hollywood have made careers of risking life and limb on a daily basis all in the name of entertainment.  There have [...]