Probably the most profound line ever written in regard to Withnail & I describes it as being "as deep as you want it to be or as s...

If you were a certain kind of boy or young teenager in the 80s, then there’s a good chance Time Bandits was a very important film for you. ...

It isn’t often that a series reinvents itself so successfully that you don’t find yourself longing for the seasons that came before, but tha...

"Weird sex. Obsession. Comic books." That’s what the movie poster for Crumb said back when the movie came out in 1995. If you wer...

The lovely Lenora Crichlow is mostly unknown to U.S. audiences, unless of course you’re a fan of the BBC America series Being Human (Saturd...

Rhoda was an incredibly successful series during its first two seasons. It was, in fact, a top ten show, going so far as to best its parent...

And so we come to yet another season finale of the greatest science fiction series ever created. This is the recap I’ve been both anticipati...

A TV series that in a one sentence pitch can be most easily described as “a vampire, a werewolf and a ghost all live together in the same ho...

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Each season of the new Doctor Who has one or two “experimental” episodes – stories that just don’t feel like anything that’s come before. ...

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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...

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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...

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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...