One of the great benefits of the at-home entertainment market boom of the last five years has been how readily available documentaries have become: the past Oscar seasons alone, Best Documentary Feature has been one of the few categories where anyone can see most or all of the nominees without leaving home. In Eyeing the…
Page Revisions: (August 30, 2015) Original Release Date: October 23, 2015 Synopsis: From IMDb: “As a small-town girl catapults from underground video sensation to global superstar, she and her three sisters begin a journey of discovering that some talents are too special to keep hidden.” Poster Rating: B Review: If you look at the poster…
Every week, we’ll take a look back in 5-year intervals in the box office past to explore how Oscar’s nominees were doing at the box office that weekend historically. All data is collected from Box Office Mojo. The first section under each year is the positioning of all Oscar nominees during that weekend at the…
We started over at the beginning of August 2013, but with a new, more streamlined methodology to collecting votes. Just choose one selection in each of the ten categories (or fewer depending on the week) below. Our first few weeks were to select winners in cases of ties or in years where multiple categories existed…
Two of The CW’s most popular television programs The Vampire Diaries and The Originals are getting ready to start new seasons this fall, but before they do, it’s time to get caught up with what you’ve missed so far with the Complete Sixth Season of The Vampire Diaries and the Complete Second Season of The…
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Born Shalom Jaffe in New York City on March 10, 1891, Sam Jaffe’s mother Ada Jaffe was a star in the Yiddish Theatre. His father Barnett was a jeweler. Young Sam graduated with a degree in engineering from City College of New York and earned his post-graduate degree at Columbia University. Having acted with his…
Page Revisions: (August 30, 2015) Original (September 20, 2015) Added Gallery Release Date: September 25, 2015 Synopsis: From IMDb: “70-year-old widower Ben Whittaker has discovered that retirement isn’t all it’s cracked up to be. Seizing an opportunity to get back in the game, he becomes a senior intern at an online fashion site, founded and…
You can tell it’s Memorial Day because the studios have dumped every film they have no confidence in on one weekend. Sure, it’s been a couple of weekends like that, but this one takes the case. Perhaps fans of the Transporter films are enamored enough that they’ll turn out, but I suspect it will be…