DVD Review – Dark Skies: The Declassified Complete Series
Don’t think badly of me when I say that I first thought Dark Skies was going to be a cheap X-Files knockoff. After all, it is a genre show about aliens
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DVD Review – The Ricky Gervais Show: The Complete First Season
The first season of The Ricky Gervais Show isn’t enough. As soon as I started watching, I couldn’t stop. I downed the entire thirteen-episode set
The 13 Best New Characters of 2010
2010 was a very strange year for television. We lost a lot of good shows to either natural causes (LOST) or premature cancellation (Terriers, Rubicon). But de
Book Review – Literary Lost: Viewing Television Through the Lens of Literature
LOST has had a deep, lasting impact on my literary palette. Philip K. Dick is one of my all-time favorite authors. Slaughterhouse-Five is one of my favorite b
DVD Review – Enemy at the Door, Series 2
Perhaps it’s my unconditional love for Quentin Tarantino’s most recent epic, but I found a lot reminiscent of Inglourious Basterds when I watched
DVD Review – Dirty Tricks
January 4, 2011 will be a day filled with despicable people. That’s all thanks to Acorn Media, who is releasing the shows The Guilty and Dirty Tricks on
DVD Review – The Guilty
The Guilty is what Shakespeare would have written if the Bard had written for British television. The 1992 miniseries, starring Foyle’s War‘s Mich
The Walking Dead 1.05 “Wildfire” Review
It was a clear step down from “Vatos,” but tonight’s episode of The Walking Dead still hit a home run in several ways. What made the episode
DVD Review – Cadfael: The Complete Collection
Cadfael is “enchanting.” I know this, because that review (by the Washington Post), is on the covers of all four sets of the medieval mystery seri
DVD Review – Joseph Campbell and the Power of Myth with Bill Moyers
It all goes back to mythology, doesn’t it? I’m talking about sci-fi in general. Some of the hallmarks of science fiction are based upon mythologic
