However you might react to “The Caretaker,” hopefully everyone will at least agree that, given the setup of the season so far, it’s a stor...

Show of hands: Who else guessed the identity of the Architect as soon as the premise was thrown out there? It wasn’t that there were any p...

As someone who’s been a disciple of all things Terry Gilliam for the better part of 30 years, it seems pretty obvious that his most innova...

Wait a minute! Wasn’t this just on my TV a few weeks ago!? Yes, the feature-length season premiere of Doctor Who , entitled “Deep Breath,”...

Part of the genius of Season Three’s benchmark “ Blink ” is how utterly standalone it is, which is why it’s often the go-to installment to...

Mark Gatiss writes and acts, and we could have an intense debate over which he does better. You’ve seen him onscreen in Game of Thrones a...

Season Eight has been dark so far, but I don’t think I realized exactly how dark the first two episodes were until I started watching “Rob...

After 50 years of Dalek stories, it cannot be easy coming up with something that hasn’t been done before — something that can also be re...

Since last we spoke, loyal readers, it’s been eight months of equal parts anticipation and dread. The former because it’s a new Doctor pla...

In 1989, there were no less than three underwater sci-fi thrillers in cinemas, but only one truly made waves: James Cameron’s masterpiece...

With the steady, ongoing rise of streaming media, encyclopedic TV-on-Disc collections are heading the way of the dodo bird. So when a clas...

It’s difficult to calculate the exact influence the work of David Cronenberg has had on sci-fi film and what the genre might be like witho...

Back when I first saw 1975’s Picnic at Hanging Rock in the mid ‘90s, we didn’t have the internet. And the Criterion laserdisc I owned (o...

Pimpmobiles. Alligators. A trip through Harlem. Voodoo. Cigars. Blaxploitation. George Martin. Bourbon and water. Tarot Cards. Snakes. Th...

There is no reason why anyone should ever have made a movie about William Hartnell. From today’s vantage point he was a relatively obscur...

Once upon a time the big movie studios would occasionally make a risky film - sometimes with a bunch of money, and other times with just ...

When the two recovered Patrick Troughton Doctor Who serials were revealed found last year, it was easy for “ The Web of Fear ” to get a...