Documentary
Rod Lott
I'll be honest: Until the Richard Gere/Laura Linney film "The Mothman Prophecies" came out in 2002, I'd never even heard of the urban legend of the winged creature that supposedly haunted the small town of Point Pleasant, W. Va., in the mid-1960s, culminating in a bridge collapse that took 46 lives.

Television series
Rod Lott
As if you needed more evidence that cable TV has network TV in a now-years-long creative choke hold, the junior and freshman seasons of AMC’s “Breaking Bad” and Showtime’s “The Big C,” respectively, are now on home video.

Television series
Rod Lott
I don’t watch a ton of TV shows while they’re airing. With a few exceptions, I wait for the DVD and/or Blu-ray sets so I can go on marathons — the only kind of marathons in which I’ll ever participate. Here are capsule reviews of seven such recent tubular trips.