• July 17, 2014
• At Home, Documentary, Television

PBS’s Pioneers of Television series covers the history and cultural significance of several related shows in each installment, and Season 4 is every bit as delightful as the ones that...

• July 9, 2014
• At Home, Documentary

OK, so right away when a kind pet-dad started talking about a disabled pig that he rescued, and that he named him Chris. P. Bacon, I just about had...

• June 5, 2014
• At Home, Documentary, War

At the start of World War II, famed Hollywood director George Stevens (Woman of the Year, A Place in the Sun, Shane), like several of his film-world cohorts, volunteered...

• March 22, 2014
• At Home, Documentary

If you looks at any newspaper from the early 1900s, its advertising content is surprisingly similar to today’s. There have always been cure-all elixirs to fix all of your...

• March 16, 2014
• Adventure, At Home, Documentary

Narrated by Samuel L. Jackson and shot over more than two years at the Masai Mara National Reserve in Kenya, the film trains its lens on a number of...

• March 6, 2014
• Adventure, At Home, Documentary, Drama

You know, I don’t want to say, “It serves them right,” but there is something about extreme mountain climbing where when something horrible happens, I just want to say,...

• March 6, 2014
• At Home, Documentary, Science Fiction

This documentary is for anyone who is an admitted (or in-denial) Star Trek fan, or for anyone who enjoyed the movie Galaxy Quest. It’s a no-frills low budget film...

• February 16, 2014
• At Home, Documentary

Coming from the perspective of someone who didn’t understand the difference between Formula 1 and NASCAR, the fascinating documentary “1” serves as a great introduction to the car racing...

• February 16, 2014
• At Home, Documentary, Television

Ernest Shackleton’s doomed Antarctic polar expedition is one of the great survival stories of modern times. After his ship The Endurance was destroyed by pack ice, leaving the ship’s...

• February 8, 2014
• At Home, Documentary

I’ve seen previous installments of this series, and it is absolutely fascinating. It is an astonishing social experiment, a sort of microcosm of the human condition, all caught on...

• January 23, 2014
• At Home, Documentary, Music

It takes a certain type of personality to be on stage, but not demand the limelight. Ever since I was a teen, I’d joke that if I were reincarnated,...

• December 22, 2013
• At Home, Documentary

In my head, Sam Shepard and I would be friends. Unlikely friends, perhaps, but, you know, simpatico. I like his sense of humor, I love the way he writes,...