All right, Doctor Who fans out there, brace yourselves, because the opportunity you’ve been waiting for since the end of the fifth series (or season, if you favor the Americanized term for a block of television episodes) has landed. The crew out at the BBC sent over a copy of Doctor Who: The Complete Sixth Series for us to review, and for those who can’t get enough of the new Doctor, well, you’ll get all you can stand and then some.

Once again, Doctor Who The Complete Sixth Series joins us with the last Time Lord. Hailing from the lovely isles of Gallifrey, the Time Lord known only as Doctor Who (or more often, the Doctor), and his selected companions, will go romping about space and time, occasionally pausing to protect Earth from rampaging hordes of otherworldly menaces who want the Doctor dead and his adopted homeworld reduced to a cinder in space lest any of those other Gallifrey types manage to show up again.

Considering that the first episode of the series will be a bizarre science fiction analogue of Charles Dickens’ A Christmas Carol, you have a pretty good idea of what we’re in for here. And considering Matt Smith’s penchant for comic glee (here, I do personally maintain Christopher Eccleston as the best Doctor, though Matt Smith has certainly done a bang-up job in the role. Great Doctor, yes indeed, best Doctor, not so much.), as well as some fine dramatic tension, you’ve got a terrific combination here that makes the Doctor seem so wildly insane. Or, of course, merely beyond our definition of sanity, as some have suggested about Batman’s Joker character.

The Doctor will do more impossible things in just one one-hour show than most people will do in a lifetime, and that may not be for everybody. But for the most part, you will have both heartwarming and spinetingling moments here, and it’s not so often I can get my entire trunk involved like that. It’s terrific stuff, in all honesty, and is going to be well worth your time to watch for any of a variety of reasons. And even better, there will often be a twist at the end that makes things even more impressive. Much like our last tangle with the Doctor, we saw the most bizarre circumstances get suddenly pulled into place, tight and clean, with a minimum of loose ends. It’s delightful fun, wildly entertaining, and very much worth your time to watch. The Doctor has legions of rabid fans out there. This is why.

The Screenhead Ten Scale gives Doctor Who The Complete Sixth Series a nine out of ten for doing a whole lot of bizarre but exciting things that will prove to be terrific in the end. The sheer bizarrity of it all will make it prove to be not for everyone, but for those willing to stomach the Doctor’s sheer epic weird level, you’ll likely have a fantastic time on board this wild TARDIS ride.

Ten years ago, a strange little movie emerged that got film buffs talking. While many folks who saw it were left puzzling, plenty of people also enjoyed it. And the folks out at 20th Century Fox sent over a copy of the tenth anniversary edition of Donnie Darko for us to review, and this massive four-disc wonder will leave you…well…probably puzzled once again.

Donnie Darko follows the young man of the same unusual name, a high school student with a strange problem. Donnie’s problem isn’t like the ordinary high school troubles of who likes who or who wants to beat up who, but rather, Donnie is pursued by a bizarre, man-sized rabbit. Said rabbit brings with him bizarre and disturbing visions of both the past Donnie didn’t know about, and the future that no one would know except him. In fact, the rabbit has recently told Donnie when the world will end. But will it come to pass, or can Donnie manage to stop the horror awaiting the planet?

This is not the first time I’ve seen Donnie Darko, and I admit that the second time around was a lot less baffling and a lot more otherworldly. Many people out there, though, aren’t going to be that interested in watching a movie that requires a second viewing in order to seem rational. But if you do, if you’re willing to invest the kind of time that it takes to really grasp the whole thing, you’re going to get a strange, but compelling, and downright disturbing presentation that’s going to take you through, as the headline implies, through weird science (Einstein-Rosen bridges are just for starters) and through freaky wonders and much, much darker things.

The question of the day remains, do you actually want to put that kind of time into this? While there is plenty of freaky, disturbing whatnot going on, you’re going to have to wade through a whole lot of weird, inexplicable whatnot to get there. Semantics to some, and for them, this will be a nonstop delight. Alternate history and time travel buffs need to pay especially close attention; you might want to compare this to The Butterfly Effect, but it’s on the other side. Where The Butterfly Effect was simplistic and focused on the “want of a nail” side of time travel, Donnie Darko just takes one thing and uses it as the lynchpin of the entire time travel concept. Weird, but exciting in its way.

The Screenhead Ten Scale hands Donnie Darko a seven out of ten; it’s weird, it’s tough to follow, it may take a couple tries to get through it, but the end result is fully of bizarre and outlandish wonders that will be plenty exciting in their own right.