Raritania

Remember when basic cable's scripted TV offerings seemed a fairly major part of pop culture? The Disney Channel had shows like  That...

I have, from time to time, remarked the hints of a belated interest in '90s nostalgia (in the feature film version of Baywatch , or the ...

Recently considering how the image of luxurious, glamorous living film and TV offer has changed I happened to mention the scale of the house...

A prominent theme of discussion of the Bond novels and films--the more critical kind that rises above a poptimist denigration of earlier wor...

Over the years I have time and again been struck by how single episodes of shows like the original Star Trek or The Twilight Zone have lin...

Researching the second edition of Star Wars in Context I found myself delving into some of Lucas' well-known inspirations--like Bruno B...

I remember when the El Rey network began airing Flatland I was surprised to not have encountered the show before. Back in those years when ...

Some years ago I offered my thoughts on The Dark Knight Rises- -which were less than complimentary. But I had received its two predecessors ...

One phrase that has long annoyed me (yes, I know there are a lot of them) is "It's a reflection of our times"--or in regard to...

Earlier this year H & I has started rerunning a number of older series, with its Sunday afternoon line-up now dominated by action-advent...

I have, for the most part, ignored Star Trek since the untimely but unsurprising demise of Star Trek: Enterprise . I have seen the first two...

It seems that since at least The Sopranos, but especially during this past decade, I have heard people say over and over and over again tha...

MILD SPOILERS AHEAD After revisiting Timothy Zahn's sequel trilogy to the original Star Wars trilogy I found myself picking up the du...

Those who have gone on flogging the James Bond series in print as in film have made much of being true to the original. "Not the last t...

Watching Star Trek one does not hear its sociology spelled out, but most conclude that the Federation is the sort of thing that Wellsians an...