Let’s talk about not only the most important TV series you’re not watching, but also the most entertaining and rewarding. It’s called Tre...

This month’s Doctor Who DVD offerings, from a storytelling standpoint, have virtually nothing in common. One is a contemporary earthbound t...

It behooves those of us who write about pop culture to occasionally come clean, and admit that a TV show or a movie has flummoxed us. ReBoot...

It could be said that the most amazing thing about The Cable Guy is how largely ignored it was by domestic audiences and how shabbily it wa...

Man, 1982 was one hell of a year for movies. In doing some research for 48 Hrs. , I came across a list of flicks released that year. Here ar...

In our celebrity-obsessed culture, it’s possible that All About Eve is more important than ever. Scratch that. How about it’s more entertai...

Interesting tidbit about “The Mutants”: Salman Rushdie mentions it in his famously controversial novel, The Satanic Verses , although not by...

For the first Christmas special of his era of Doctor Who , nobody can accuse Steven Moffat of playing it safe. That’s not to imply that he d...

Submitting yourself to either version of I Spit on Your Grave requires that you have a cast iron stomach. The original is one of the most n...

At this point, after five seasons (and change) of dazzling new Doctor Who , it’s almost difficult to remember how lean the years were for ...

To label Santa Sangre a mere horror film does it a great disservice, but ultimately that’s where it’ll end up filed nine times out of ten, ...

By 1990, the ‘80s nighttime power soaps were on the way out, and new types of soapy television, like Beverly Hills, 90210 and Melrose Place...

TV history is littered with the bones and carcasses of shows killed off before their time. In fact, if we were discussing living, breathing ...

Here’s a show that’s immensely frustrating to review. No matter how tied it is to the current series of Doctor Who , there’s no getting arou...

Before moving on to reviewing these serials, it’s worth taking some time out to talk about where the classic Doctor Who video range is at t...

Sometimes it isn’t a terrible idea to check back in with a series you used to not care for, and haven’t seen in many years. I grew up watchi...

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 , ...