It's hard to recommend the Blu-ray set of the second season of Star Trek: The Next Generation unreservedly — you already got the experience of seeing the Enterprise-D in high-definition and marveling at the restored visual effects, with the season one DVDs. And season two of TNG is mostly just as bad as season one,…
At last you can see Doctor Who's James Bond adventure the way it was…
"Ambassadors of Death" might be the most action-packed Doctor Who story of all time — it's the first one when the show had access to a whole crew of professional stuntmen, thanks to the stuntman agency Havoc, and the director went way overboard with crazy action sequences. It's also one of the most splashy stories from…
Hogwarts in a Box: Inside the Harry Potter Wizards Collection
The final Harry Potter movie only just came out a year or so ago, so it's entirely you've been waiting until all the films were out on DVD before buying them in one go. And if you really, really want to be a Harry Potter completist, there's great news: Harry Potter: The Wizard's Collection is an utterly insane…
Doctor Who: Humiliation of the Daleks!
The Doctor Who story "Death to the Daleks" contains the coolest image ever created: A Dalek exploding in flames. Huge roiling flames coming out of the burst-open dome, like a towering inferno had consumed the mutant within. I still remember the crazy cover to the Target novelization, where the flames soared so high they…
The Adventure Time season 1 DVD featurettes are gloriously insane
The Adventure Time season one DVD set (26 episodes on two discs) came out a month ago, but we've been meaning to put in a plug for it. (Comic Con kind of derailed us, I guess.) There are two main reasons to pick this set up:
Star Trek: The Next Generation is brand new all over again
These days, Star Trek: The Next Generation often feels like an old, fuzzy pair of socks: comfortable and well-worn. The first Star Trek spinoff show appears in syndication at all hours, looking a bit washed out and just as dated as the Original Series. It's hard to believe it was viewed as a radical, even sacrilegious, …
Classic Doctor Who's Great Unsung Director
When it comes to Doctor Who in the 1960s, people don't usually think of it as having especially artsy direction. There were some cool scares, and a few really iconic scenes here and there — but for the most part, directors were working with cameras the size of woolly mammoths, on sets the size of matchboxes. But…
You Can't Handle Doctor Who's In-Your-Face Politics!
Seriously, you won't be able to deal with the sheer intensity of Doctor Who at its most political and confrontational. You may have thought you'd already experienced the most insane Wholitics after you watched "The Green Death," after which you resolved to start eating tofu and bicycling to work, or the evil maggot…
Let Wallace and Gromit teach your kids about science
At first glance, the idea of "Wallace and Gromit have their own science education show" seems a bit weird. Especially when you see Wallace, the claymation man with unmistakable sweater vest, sitting at a desk saying "Hello viewers." But actually, Wallace & Gromit's World of Invention, which just came out on DVD in the…
Your Chance to Discover the Best of Classic Doctor Who
If you're a fan of the new Doctor Who series but haven't ever quite gotten into the classic version, then you've got a unique opportunity to correct that oversight right now. Some of the best classic Doctor Who stories are being re-released in specially remastered "special editions" — including the story that fans voted…
