Yesterday I read the lovely new Sirenia Digest which once again features the lovely art of Virgil Finlay, in this case two pieces. Caitli...

Well, that's it, no more Gamey Thrones , at least not on television anyway. It was a pleasant series finale, filled with fond farewell...

It's one of those days when all kinds of different historical periods are jumbled together in the 2008 Doctor Who audio play "De...

Crichton storms off of Moya in an extraordinarily infantile mood on Farscape only to witness the big ship take off without him. But that...

Machiko Kyo, the great actress who passed away a few days ago at the ago of 95, was markedly unlike her contemporaries. Where Setsuko Hara...

Aeryn's attempt to give Crichton flying lessons is interrupted by an invisible net and the usual unexpected physical intimacy in the f...

Young people often have faith in their own heartlessness. What enables a person to "ghost" a lover or abruptly abandon friends a...

Still thinking about Game of Thrones , this morning I read the new, very good Sirenia Digest , which includes Caitlin R. Kiernan's new...

Well, I hope we all learned a valuable lesson from last night's Game of Thrones , the penultimate episode of the series. I do apprecia...

To-day's Mother's Day in the U.S. so for my Saturday night Doctor Who fix I ended up watching "The Doctor, the Widow, and th...

Anyone who's read Robert Lewis Stevenson's best known novels, Treasure Island and Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde , would have nothing to p...

A diverse group of beautiful women are forced to fight to the death in 1974's Arena . They fight with swords, chains, and even lettuce...

A man claiming to be "a hunter" wanders into a remote mining town with a shotgun in Seijun Suzuki's 1961 film Man with a Sho...