All I Want for Christmas is a Plasma TV - This holiday shopping season, I am finding some jaw dropping deals on those deliciously rich plasma TVs. Ho, ho, ho!

Bill Moyers: God and Politics - have you heard that a brisk discourse about religion and politics with someone of an opposing opinion is the better way to buff up your brain cells and defeat dementia? If true, Bill Moyers lives the cure.

JVC JLC47BC3000 47" LCD TV - a great choice for those who simply want an easy-to-use TV that they can plop down and enjoy their favorite programs without having to fuss with networking or apps or 3D glasses - just like the good ol' days back in 2008.

The Bretts: The Complete Collection - Admittedly, The Bretts' appeal is for a niche audience: Anglophiles, theater buffs, fanatics of historical fiction, fans of family drama and aficionados of Upstairs, Downstairs.

Samsung HW-D7000 A/V Receiver with Blu-ray Player - Samsung has melded a 3D Blu-ray player and an A/V receiver into a feature-rich, well-performing hybrid that can upgrade two pieces of your home theater gear in one fell swoop.

The Beaver - Enjoyed is not the right word to describe my emotions about a film about a manic depressive whose tenuous grip on sanity and life itself depends upon a nappy, toothy, cockney, rodent of a hand puppet - let's just say, I was moved by Gibson's performance.

Sony BRAVIA XBR-46HX929 46" Edge-lit LED LCD 3D TV - The BRAVIA HX929 series currently reigns as Sony's king of the hill and with superior picture quality and a castle full of Internet content providers, this full array LED backlit 3D TV deserves the crown.

Queen to Play - Right up front, this French subtitled film is written and directed by women about a maid. The income-challenged household of housecleaner-housewife Hélène (Sandrine Bonnaire) is being torn apart by an unconventional intrusion - chess.

LG BD670 3D Blu-ray Player - This LG stands above the Blu-ray player crowd with its Smart TV's breadth and depth of Internet content providers. The device is easy to setup and use and its performance is solid.

Blu-ray Player Buying Guide - A seismic shift in the Blu-ray player market has occurred. It's definitely time to update the Guide to reflect the current trends. And for your convenience, I have assembled a shopping Checklist.

Samsung PN51D8000 51" Plasma 3D TV - The PQ on Samsung's top-of-the-line plasma is reference quality. Add in the burgeoning Smart TV package of content providers and apps and this D8000 series earns our Highly Recommended rating.

Sony_KDL-46HX820 46" Edge-lit LED LCD 3D TV - With perhaps the longest list of extra features that I have seen, the 46HX820 is a video geek's delight. Its video technology tries its darnedest to improve the look of Internet content and often succeeds, which is good because Sony supplies a stack of providers. I just wish the 3D PQ was better.

3D TVs - Beyond the Wow - Thoughts on the current state of 3D has been reverberating in my tri-dimensional noggin a lot lately. With the influx of 3D TVs and movies to review, I've been percolating on what makes a good 3D experience. So sit down and let me serve you a cup of fresh brewed 3D joe.

HDTV Buying Guide - In this update to our Guide, I'll be explaining 3D TVs, the new lure to our wallets as well as other shifts in the TV marketplace.

Reggie Perrin: Seasons 1 & 2 - The mutable faces of Martin Clunes may superglue you to the tube. Portraying Reggie Perrin, watch him shape-shift from sheepish, anxious, audacious, nauseous, pompous, bemused or bewildered to anything in between, yet another English treat for American TV.

Prime Suspect: Season 2 - While 20 years old, this Emmy Award winning series has aged well. Except for the absence of iPhones and DNA testing, it could happen today. Among the prime and primed suspects, there are competing compelling candidates, each one with a persistent tracker.

Wish Me Luck: Season 3 - Written by two women, Jill Hyem and Lavinia Warner, Wish Me Luck is about heroines, heroes and the not-so-heroic, from World War II. Naturally, there is romance, espionage, suspense, drama, blood and plenty of treachery.

Leaving Las Vegas - If you like films that are gritty (yet tender), gutsy (yet touching), graphic (yet humane) and high on talent, see Director Mike Figgis’s Leaving Las Vegas. Ben (Nicolas Cage) is a devout, determined, dedicated, unrepentant alcoholic; and Sera (Elizabeth Shue) is a dependable, skilled, successful, bruised prostitute.

The Manchurian Candidate - The story is about good versus two evil isms: truth versus Communism and McCarthyism. Closely based on Richard Condon's spooky novel, George Axelrod's script baffles, bewitches and beguiles with its conspiracies, nightmares, homicides, hypnosis, hydrangeas, eurekas, an Oedipus kink and the mesmeric Janet Leigh.

The Misfits - despite the adversities, it is Marilyn - as such a breath-taking beauty, in such a pure performance, and with so much magnetism - who ignites this despairing solitary stud flick cinegraphed in Nevada's mustang-country.

The Horse Soldiers - Though I find this 1957 movie less compelling than other John Ford classics, he tells this Civil War story (based on the 1863 exploits of a Union cavalry unit sneaking behind Confederate lines to disrupt the Rebel supply trains) in an appealing straight forward style.

Doc Martin: Seasons 1 - 4 - He's a brilliant surgeon, but has the bedside manner of a carp, the tact of a trout, the face of an eel and is as comfortable with himself as any fish out of water. Worse yet, he panics at the sight of blood - a quixotic combo that only the Brits could convert into dramatic comedic award-winning television.

Lorna Doone - For actor aficionados, film fans and Anglophiles, it's fun to see the fledgling career moves of screen talent. For both Owens and Walker, this production was an early outing. Here, Clive can't yet act, but he can flaunt those exotic lips. And the alluring looks of Polly helps minimize all other shortcomings.

Tron & Tron Legacy - Disney's Tron five disc combo pack offers a buffet of ocular and cerebral morsels that will sate Tronnies and videophiles alike. The dilemma is where do you start nibbling - the 3D Blu-ray of Tron Legacy or the Blu-ray of the newly restored, original Tron?

Friday Night Lights: The Fifth and Final Season - In fictional Dillon, Texas, an itty-bitty town where football is humongous, head coach Eric Taylor (Chandler) rides the spiral of a wildly erratic pigskin spinning out of control. And his wife and working mom Tami Taylor spends her smarts and sagacity juggling more errant kid's ids than anyone can.

Every Day - Writer and director Richard Levine, perhaps because he is plumbing from his own life, does not present this tableau as a devastating calamity but rather as a series of challenges that families have to confront and resolve, every day.

Rain Man - What can be written about this film that hasn't been scribbled in the twenty three years since it won four Academy Awards, including for Best Picture and for Best Actor, Dustin Hoffman as the emotionally distant but loveable, autistic savant, Raymond Babbitt.

Upstairs, Downstairs - From the upper opulent bowers to the bare-bones bowels below, the Bellamy family and their servants inhabit tony 165 Eaton Place in Tory London. The 40th Anniversary compilation of this beloved series contains 21 DVDs that chronicle their lives - five years of superb television by substantive artists telling substantial stories.

Last Tango in Paris - From the opening title sequences with the gnarled Francis Bacon paintings, you know that you are in for a contorted cinematic dance that your senses will not soon forget. And indeed, Director/Screenwriter Bernardo Bertolucci intertwines his actors, Marlon Brando and Maria Schneider, into an existential psycho-sexual relationship with no names.

Moonstruck - The moon is the mortar, the motivator, the troublemaker, the revelator, and the liberator as an uninhibited Nicolas Cage unwinds the uptight Cher in this unfettered farce about Italian families living the vita loca in Brooklyn.

Dances with Wolves - has been released for the first time on Blu-ray. And with Dean Semel's Academy Award winning cinematography of the sweeping vistas of the South Dakota Badlands, this epic tale definitely deserves this gorgeous re-mastered high-def treatment.

Raging Bull - Considered one of Martin Scorsese's greatest films, this boxing classic features a bravura performance by Robert De Niro as the self destructive middleweight, Jake La Motta. The black and white cinematography on this new Blu-ray release looks both lush and raw at the same time.

Thelma and Louise - This Blu-ray release marks the 20th Anniversary of this buddy-film/road-picture/truckstop-western starring Susan Sarandon and Geena Davis, (Louise and Thelma), who saddle up for the ride of their lives in a sexy 1966 turquoise T-bird convertible.

Secretariat - is about the quintessential equine's quest for racing's rare grand slam, the Thoroughbred Triple Crown. The consort in this 1973 Sport of Kings was Penny Chenery Tweedy, who harnessed her assets to her ambition and bet all her money on a horse. Literally.