Film/DVD Reviews

DVD Review– And Then There Were None Terrific novels often get turned into sub-par TV and movie adaptations, sometimes bearing little resemblance to their original source material. Agatha Christie’s seminal 1939 novel, And Then There Were None, has […]

DVD Review– New Tricks: Season 12 While Hollywood steadily pushes youth-oriented fare, the BBC’s series New Tricks broke the mold in a refreshing manner. The premiere showed an ambitious young police officer’s career sidelined by a twist of […]

DVD Review– New Tricks: Season 12 While Hollywood steadily pushes youth-oriented fare, the BBC’s series New Tricks broke the mold in a refreshing manner. The premiere showed an ambitious young police officer’s career sidelined by a twist of […]

DVD Review– True Detective: The Complete Second Season The first season of True Detective was a critical smash, with its fans bandying about praises like “best series ever,” and declaring that it deserved every award available. I had […]

DVD Review– Black Work Black Work is a three-part miniseries, with each episode lasting about forty-seven minutes. As the show begins, Jo Gillespie is a police officer whose marriage is in uncertain waters. Her husband, Ryan (Kenny […]

DVD Review: Arthur and George Arthur and George is based on Julian Barnes’s novel of the same name, which was, in turn, inspired by a real-life cause célèbre. Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, the creator of Sherlock […]

DVD Review: Hannibal– Season Three—still chilling…still riveting… Four years ago, if people had told me that the best American drama on network television would have centered on a cannibalistic serial killer, I would have thought […]