Author: Al McGhee

Grade • A DVD • If you haven’t seen the BBC/PBS series “Call the Midwife,” you don’t know what you’ve been missing. This fact-based drama is based on the memoirs of Jennifer Worth (Jenny Lee), who arrives in London’s downtrodden East End in 1957 and is horrified by what she discovers. It’s like something out of the 19th century — including pregnant women who have venereal diseases and one woman …

Grade • B+ DVD • “The Conjuring” is proof that a nerve-shaking horror movie need not be wall-to-wall blood. Director James Wan (“Saw,” “Insidious: Chapter 2”) takes the story of true-life demon hunters Ed and Lorraine Warren (Patrick Wilson and Vera Farmiga), the folks behind the “Amityville Horror” case, as they investigate a creepy house in Rhode Island

MOVIE buff Simon Miraudo lists his top 10 flicks to get you hiding under the covers this Halloween.