Sifting through the elaborate contents of this box set revealed something important about Johnny Carson: he never changed. Onscreen, Carson ...

In the past, I’ve struggled with Californication . Not over its quality, as much as the fact that I didn’t find it particularly funny, even ...

It’s always a little sad when you come to the end of the road for a series you’ve been watching via TV on DVD. Probably less sad than the en...

Lisa Cholodenko isn’t a household name as writer/directors go, but that may change somewhat after her latest film, The Kids Are All Right , ...

Bringing Sherlock Holmes squarely into 2010 sounds too gimmicky to work, but the fact that it does may be only part of the reason Sherlock ...

It’s important to understand the circumstances under which I interviewed Piers Wenger, one of the executive producers of the current era of ...

Still haven’t gotten around to checking out Doctor Who , have you? Don’t let the Season Five label dissuade you: This is a great place to ge...

We’re pretty much dragging the bottom of the Cyber-barrel this month, folks. With “Revenge of the Cybermen” and “Silver Nemesis,” all of the...

The critical blurb on the cover of Damned by Dawn is difficult to miss: “Sick of waiting for Evil Dead 4 ? Check out Damned by Dawn .” It’s...

Given that Mark McKinney of Kids in the Hall fame is not only one of the writers, but also one of the stars of Slings and Arrows , one woul...

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...