Television

One of my happiest memories was the day I finished fashioning my own home-made Superman costume. To be fair it was no way near as good as the Monkey TV show outfit I had made a few months before, replete ...

I’m not sure I planned on being weird, but growing up in the seventies and eighties meant I was groomed by lax parenting, barely existent health and safety, and televisual content, which was either spewed through the psychedelic filter of ex-hippies or curiously wizened old men.

Strange times call for strange entertainment, and genre film fanatics looking for something unusual to watch these days should get a kick out of the American Genre Film Archive’s AGFA Mystery Mixtape series, which mashes together vintage television and home ...

The early-seventies were an interesting and pivotal time for gender identity and reinforcement. While the women’s liberation movement was in full-throttle and dominating the news headlines (along with the music charts, thanks to Helen Reddy’s anthemic 1972 battle cry “I ...

While practicing her eulogy for her mother’s funeral, Priscilla (Sophie Lowe, Once Upon A Time in Wonderland) credits her mom with giving her sister, Mary Beth (Morgan Saylor, Homeland), and her “Strong moral compass.” That night, Mary Beth kills a ...

There are certain actors that are the entertainment industry’s utility players. These are the talented individuals that can move from genre to genre and are consistently working. They may not have achieved the kind of stardom that Tom Hanks or ...

Fifty years ago last month, the pilot episode of Rod Serling’s new venture into the weird and outré debuted as an NBC World Premiere Movie to a host of expectant home viewers. Night Gallery was in the same mold as ...

For many viewers of my generation, no other club on the face of the Earth boasted the kind of elite membership offered by the Midnight Society. The Society featured a motley group of adolescents who abandoned their homes by cover ...

“My mother’s maiden name was McConnell. Her ancestors are Canadian, Irish, Scotch and Welsh. And, on the Harper side, they are French, English and, according to my sister, American Indian. But, I think her addition of American Indian came after ...

“Very little comment here, save for this small aside: that the ties of flesh are deep and strong, that the capacity to love is a vital, rich and all-consuming function of the human animal, and that you can find nobility ...