Sam is a Senior Writer for Collider. His love for movies, TV shows, and books stretches back to his early childhood and has grown exponentially with every passing year. Lucky for him, this love grew ...

The show was memorable not as a play but as a document of the frightened fascination with which some writers regard Hollywood, as if it were a basketful of hypnotizing snakes. In The Velvet Alley, ...

The Rod Serling drama “Patterns” is on DVD this week, along with other vintage titles. “Patterns” (Film Detective, 1956, b/w). Van Heflin stars in this excellent boardroom melodrama as an ambitious ...

Old is new again as many programs from the golden era of TV are packaged as DVDs and sent to the shelves. Media contributor Wally Podrazik reunites us with Rod Serlings's early foray into television, ...

Rod Serling was interested in writing meaningful drama that probed human nature and the ills of modern society. The problem with that: He chose to work in television — which, in the 1950s, worked hard ...

Rod Serling was the most famous writer in the world. He was a wonderful writer, but his fame derived not so much from the words he put down on paper as from the fact that, almost by happenstance, he ...