Movies

First of all, this isn't about gay people coming out of the closet, which was the first thing that occurred to me when I saw the DVD cover for OUT (1978).  Not that there's anything wrong with that, but if that's what you think you're going to see then you'll probably be disappointed when a hardboiled British crime drama from the late 70s pops up on your TV screen instead.

If that is what you're expecting, however, then chances are you'll be pretty much delighted by this six-episode miniseries from Thames Television (kicked off by their distinctive mirror-image logo) about

According to the makers of OUTLAW (2007), the current legal system in England is shockingly non-punitive toward the bad guys, who often get the old "slap on the wrist" for their crimes, which means that there may be an increase in vigilante violence in the future.  Which is what this bloody, action-packed thriller is about.  Which is why I thought it was pretty cool.

Sean Bean, one of those solid actors whose presence in a film is always welcome, plays Sgt. Danny Bryant, a paratrooper who has just returned from Iraq to find his wife in the arms of another

With Acorn Media's 4-disc collection MIDSOMER MURDERS: SET 19, we return once again to that sleepy English county where every quaint little village has a murder rate that would make the average urban dweller's hair stand on end. 

Putting forth his best effort to root out the killers and make those unquiet burgs safe again for farmers, shopkeepers, and greedy country squires is former MI6 agent Tom Barnaby, now a detective chief inspector who'd rather be having a pint in front of the telly if there weren't a murder to solve every five minutes.  He seems a hair's breadth

With the release of NIGHT OF THE LIVING DEAD, it turned out that George Romero, in addition to creating a classic zombie movie, had established a basic premise that would inspire a seemingly endless number of variations, continuations, and reimaginings.  One of the latest chapters in the saga of what happened after "that night" is the Ford Brothers' THE DEAD (2010), a rich and surprisingly moving horror-adventure tale set in the wilds of Africa.

As usual in the post-Romero zombie apocalyptic world, no explanation for the fact that the dead are rising and eating the living is necessary before we're