If cinema, at its core, is a visual art form, then Nicolas Roeg’s debut feature Walkabout is surely one of the greatest examples of filmmak...

I was sold on “The Vampires of Venice” (not “Vampires in Venice,” which is what I mistakenly called it at the close of last week’s recap) by...

Jerry Stahl is a great writer who once upon a time had a very rough time of it while trying to write TV scripts in Hollywood. He became addi...

Now I’d had a little bit to drink – OK, a lot to drink – before I watched “Flesh and Stone,” and when it was over I swore it was the best ep...

The classic range of Doctor Who DVDs is in a weird area right now. Much of the good stuff has already been released, and so plenty of the m...

The bulk of Jon Pertwee’s first three seasons as the Doctor saw him exiled to Earth, but occasionally he’d find himself with a working TARDI...

After being so thoroughly underwhelmed for the past two weeks, “The Time of Angels” almost leaves me speechless. I wish I could just write, ...

“Daleks. I sometimes think those mutated misfits will terrorize the universe for the rest of time.” Peter Davison’s Fifth Doctor, following ...

After giving fairly middling reviews to the last several seasons of Dallas , one thing I wasn’t expecting from this penultimate collection o...

Amongst the ‘80s power soaps Dallas , Dynasty , and Knot’s Landing was the seemingly far less famous Falcon Crest , although the show had a...

After gushing over the season premiere last week, it pains me to find “The Beast Below” is lacking. One element of the episode I found to b...

Jeff Bridges has seemingly lurked on the edges of superstardom his entire career. Time after time, movie upon movie, he’s been turning out g...

It feels like it’s been forever since Steven Moffat was announced as the new showrunner and Matt Smith as the new Doctor. It hasn’t been, o...

When one hears the name “Hammer Films,” usually the first thing that leaps to mind is the production company’s Gothic horror output of the ‘...

Nearly 25 years before Guy Ritchie gave Sherlock Holmes the slick Hollywood treatment, Steven Spielberg, Barry Levinson, Chris Columbus and ...

With the successful revival/reinvention of shows like Doctor Who and Battlestar Galactica in recent years, a reinterpretation of the ‘60s ...

It isn’t often that DVD producers listen to consumer reaction, or at least it doesn’t seem terribly common. Last year, Shout! released the ...

Normally in a review like this – one written about the final season of a series – I’d say, “This isn’t the place to start if you’ve never wa...

Imbibing in the second season of thirtysomething brought me to a minor revelation: I like this show because it makes me love a group of cha...

With the impending release of Tim Burton’s Alice in Wonderland we’ve been inundated with press releases of DVDs for what seem like nearly e...