Billy Crystal has been involved in some of the funniest, most durably iconic movies of the last few decades - think When Harry Met Sally...

In the fall of 1983 I was eight and a half years old, and a TV show featuring a guy who could turn into any animal was just about the...

Some movies are perfect time capsules for the moment in which they came into the world, none more so than Mike Myers' debut and...

I love Beowulf for two reasons. First, it is the story of a truly bad-ass hero, a take-no-prisoners slayer of monsters (and their...

I've got a soft spot - I say, I've got a soft spot for ol' Foghorn. He is, at least in his own estimation, a bottomless font of homespun...

If Josiah Bartlet was the West Wing's Lear/Macbeth/Richard, then Tobias Zachary Ziegler was the conscience of the king. Brilliant,...

Everybody loves Charlotte's Web. Naive, kindhearted Wilbur. Erudite, selfless Charlotte. Templeton, that fat, useful bastard. There's...

It took me a long time to warm up to Captain America. As a boy, I considered him a bland, boring relic from a bygone era of pulp comics,...

I've listed characters from two of Piers Anthony's fantasy/sci-fi series earlier on this list, Xanth and the Incarnations of Immortality....

Sure, Cosmo Kramer is a comedic icon. But the same year Seinfeld hit the small screen, actor Michael Richards appeared on the big screen...

Today I honor the fiftieth anniversary of the debut episode of the original (and still the best) Star Trek with a tip of the cap to the...

So, what would you little maniacs like to discuss first? Weird Science is perhaps the quirkiest entry in the catalogue of 80's-teen film...