Having neglected Vinyl Candy on their second release, Land , it seemed a good time to write a few words about their latest effort, the exce...

The thing with Wallander is that it creates a wholly believable world which does not exist. It’s set and filmed in a very real locality – Y...

It says quite a bit about America when Two and a Half Men is the most popular sitcom on TV. It’s a foul, misogynistic, relentlessly immoral...

The first season of The Mary Tyler Moore Show was released on DVD in September of 2002, and now the seventh and final season has been relea...

There’s been quite a bit written about The Human Centipede in the past six or so months. If you’re not familiar with the film’s concept, co...

Hang on a sec! Isn’t there a new bloke playing the Doctor? Yes, there is. Didn’t David Tennant’s era end at New Year’s? Yes, it did. Then wh...

It’s been a while since a sci-fi series left me with as bad a taste in my mouth as Caprica has, so much so that I became pretty juvenile ju...

Merry Christmas Mr. Lawrence is a real curiosity piece, as well as something of a minor holy grail for film buffs in the U.S. Probably the...

It’s mildly irritating that The Big Bang Theory has become one of the biggest shows on network TV. This thing is a ratings behemoth at this...

Now that’s more like it. I’m referring, of course, to the sophomore season of Being Human . Of its freshman season I wrote, “It doesn’t al...

Once upon a time (like two years ago) Skins generated a huge amount of controversy, and probably with good reason. Any show featuring overs...

Detective Jane Tennison is arguably Helen Mirren’s most famous role, and given the amount of time she invested in the part – roughly 25 hour...

There’s nothing wrong with “The Creature from the Pit” that a couple pints of ale (or whatever your choice of poison may be) can’t fix. Yet ...

Few long-running TV series manage to keep moving forward without the occasional bad idea – the kind where viewers collectively scratch their...

Long before Irish director Neil Jordan made popular movies ( Interview with the Vampire ), or important movies ( Michael Collins ), or movie...

HandMade Films is a production and distribution company that started out as a venture between George Harrison and his business partner Denis...

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...