Carol Danvers (Ms. Marvel, Binary, Warbird, Captain Marvel) is a fascinating study in the struggles that male comic creators have long...

Homer's Iliad is an epic tragedy, the rich depiction of a Trojan War that is a total disaster for virtually everyone involved. The...

My favorite stage production is 1776, but those characters are based on real people, so don't qualify for inclusion here. Otherwise John...

Let's face it - Calvin is kind of a punk. Bright, inventive, adventurous, but a punk all the same, in the way only a willful six-year old...

When Harry Met Sally...is very nearly a perfect film. It stars two performers at their respective peaks: Meg Ryan as adorably neurotic as...

We return to the West Wing, a show with a roster of characters so deep that as many as ten might show up on this list. One of my absolute...

Gladiator came along in 2000, when I was 25 years old and ripe for some fractured Roman history as a vehicle for a jacked-up, brooding...

City on the Edge of Forever is without question the finest of the original Star Trek episodes, and rightfully has a place among the best...

Worth Winning is a fairly run-of-the-mill 1989 romantic comedy with an improbably silly plot, and yet it's always been a guilty pleasure...

Where the Wild Things Are is such a colossal, iconic, cherished book that I hesitate to make any truly declarative observations about it....

Rodney Dangerfield was masterful in Caddyshack, but I've always felt his magnum opus was Back to School. As self-made clothing tycoon...

Since it's my birthday, I'm highlighting one of my favorite characters from my own work. As much as my mind and heart are currently...