I fell in love, last year, with the BBC’s modern-day reinvention of Sherlock Holmes, Sherlock, when I watched the first two seasons on DVD.  Starring Martin Freeman and Benedict Cumberbatch, the show is a dynamic, clever spin on the Holmes mythos.  (Click here for my review of

In my opinion, Star Trek: Voyager was by far the weakest of the Star Trek TV series.  I felt that the show never lived up to its premise (of the difficulties one lone starship would face, all on their own eighty thousand light-years from home), and even more disappointingly, I felt t

Well, the academy’s list of Best Picture nominees didn’t look much anything like my list of the Best Movies of 2013, but that’s to be expected!  (For comparison’s sake, click here for part one of my Best Movies of 2013 list, here for part two, and here for par

Based on the book The Lost Child of Philomena Lee by Martin Sixsmith, the film Philomena tells the based-on-a-true-story of Philomena Lee (Judi Dench), an elderly Irish woman.  Fifty years earlier, she became pregnant as a young girl and was sent to an Irish Catholic convent.  She d