Kent Conrad

The Agatha Christie Hour adapted 10 short stories featuring lesser-known characters from Christie’s canon

Milius documents the rise and fall of raconteur and Hollywood rebel John Milius.

Bryan Ferry’s Live in Lyon live concert DVD features songs from every phase of the crooner’s career, respectably performed.

In Search of Blind Joe Death is a captivating look at the life and works of genuine musical misfit John Fahey.

Sanguivorous is a horror film more interested in abstract visuals than narrative, or scares.

History Channel’s first scripted series, Vikings mixes fact, legend, and fairly standard TV drama.

In its eighth season, Waking the Dead is a perfect example of a show that has outworn its welcome.

American Horror Story: Asylum is like a dozen horror movies at once, but somehow they all hold together.

Rob Kuhn’s excellent new doc looks at the impact of George Romero’s seminal zombie movie.

Brainwave, a lecture series that pair an artist with a neuroscientist, is an intriguing, if rather random, DVD release.

Haven: Season 3 continues the supernatural series with a mixed-bag of episodes, some good, some real dogs.

Blandings, adapted from the stories by P.G. Wodehouse, wonderfully performed, but deviates somewhat from Woderhouse’s innocent spirit.

For an audience interested in an entertaining experience, I can’t imagine a duller time.

Criterion Collection’s release of Shoah is a superb packaging of the powerful, haunting Holocaust documentary.

’80s action cinema made anew. Whether you find that damning, or high praise, will determine whether or not the show’s for you.

Dragons: Riders of Berk continues from How To Train Your Dragon, with more Vikings and more Dragons.

Sixties-era Thailand gangs rumble in the streets of Bangkok in The Gangster, an ambitious but flawed new film.