Given that there was such a dearth of new Jon Pertwee releases over the last couple years, the classic Doctor Who DVD range has more than m...

Following producer Philip Hinchcliffe’s nearly perfect era of Doctor Who was never going to be an easy task for anyone, but it fell upon Gr...

Before moving on to the stories themselves, let’s go ahead and get the ugliness out of the way, because there’s no point in dancing around t...

As someone who loves science fiction, it’s unfortunate that I’ve got an almost irrational resistance to programming on Syfy. It goes all the...

If somebody asked me to make a short list of my favorite writers and/or directors working today, Richard Curtis isn’t the first person who’...

Last week I posted a quick update saying that I would wait until this week to write about both of these episodes, but that “The Hungry Earth...

Only on Nip/Tuck can a character utter a line like “Dildo sales are down. It’s the goddamn economy,” and make it sound a perfectly reasonab...

It’s almost hard to believe that Curb Your Enthusiasm has been a comedy staple for 10 years. After all, it spends far more time off the air...

Here we are, more or less mid-season, and as someone who’s recapping this block of episodes week in and out, as well as someone who’s been d...

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...