After the thrilling real world cliffhanger of “The Zygon Invasion,” picking up events in Clara’s hazy Zygon dream state was unexpected to ...

The Doctor: “This is a splinter group. The rest of the Zygons — the vast majority — they want to live in peace. You start bombing them, ...

Last week I referred to “ The Girl Who Died ” as the first half of a two-parter. It was pretty obvious even then that, along with “The W...

“The Girl Who Died” was possibly the most anticipated episode of season nine, not as much for the material, but rather for a crucial pie...

“Before the Flood” is the fourth episode of season nine. “ Listen ” was the fourth episode of season eight. Both episodes begin with the D...

The base-under-siege trope has been a Doctor Who chestnut since the Patrick Troughton years. It got a particularly heavy series of work...

Given how rooted in the classic series the first half of this two-parter appeared, the second half feels positively grounded in the new. I...

“The Magician’s Apprentice” casts an immediate spell. Anyone versed in the classic Tom Baker serial “Genesis of the Daleks” was surely mes...

“Last Christmas” is the tenth Doctor Who Christmas special in as many Christmases — a decade of Russell T. Davies’s and Steven Moffat’s a...

The movie portion of this review was previously published at Bullz-Eye .  Stills are not screengrabs from the Criterion Blu-ray. If yo...

There’s always time and space to write a little bit more about Ben Watt and/or Tracey Thorn, but today the focus must be on Ben, for ...

Picking up from the various precarious cliffhangers we were left with last week, “Death in Heaven” goes pretty silly for the first 10 or 1...

The director’s cut of Clive Barker’s Nightbreed has been a very, very long time coming, and rare is a film more deserving of a top to b...

Let’s not bury the lede here, and please allow your recapper a bit of gloating. All the way back in my recap for “ Deep Breath ” I posited...

Cult classic sitcom WKRP in Cincinnati , now making its complete series DVD debut, takes viewers to a much different time – before iPods a...

If there’s one thing that continues to amaze me about Doctor Who , or more specifically its fans, it’s all the wildly different reactions ...

Honest to Pete, it’d be nice if this season could deliver just one truly awful installment, so as a recapper I could have a little fun tea...

[Note: Screengrabs are taken from the MGM DVD release.] Two big budget studio ghost stories from the early sixties are cinematic siblings...

After last week’s episode, aspects of which seemingly half of Whoville had big problems accepting, it must be reassuring for disgruntled f...

Doctor Who is no stranger to outrageous, unbelievable plots. One could even say the show has practically been built on them. “Kill the Mo...