Imagine, if you will, a time when a vampire was a dark creature of gothic horror, a mysterious, monstrous apparition of dread, and not...

Lloyd Bridges was a national treasure. A serious action star in his youth (Sea Hunt!), Bridges passed on the roles of Captain Pike and...

Robert Louis Stevenson wrote the Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde in 1886, at the height of British Victorian cultural repression....

There's something wonderful about fierce old women. Ancient broads who have put up with all the bullshit in their lives and now, in their...

The 1987 Arnold Schwarzenegger vehicle The Running Man is pretty cheesy stuff, adapted from the much-better Stephen King source material....

Man, what I wouldn't give to be Jed Bartlet. The intellect, the gravitas, the sheer untrammeled competence. Or Leo McGarry with his...

There are a lot of Tom Cruise roles from his Hall-of-Fame stretch from 1983-1996 that I cherish, many of which I even identify with....

I'll reiterate what I've said more than once on this list - the 1986 Transformers animated movie is one of my favorite things ever. If...

A short, smart, heroic Gaul from the first century AD, Asterix leads the resistance to the conquering Romans in his village and elsewhere...

I love Rip Van Winkle. Here's a dude who didn't really have any interest in working for a living, interested mainly in loafing around his...

Sir Arthur C. Clarke was a titan in the history of science fiction, one of the 20th century's Big Three along with Asimov and Heinlein....

Perseus was, in many ways, the original questing hero. His story contains many of the elements that have become essential tropes of...