For Love or Money is a little-known, formulaic rom-com vehicle for Michael J. Fox. Released in 1993, it resides in a career trough...

Star Trek: Voyager premiered while I was in college, and I was very ready to give it a try. Deep Space Nine had arrived during my...

As I discussed earlier in this list with Hamlet, Hawthorne's classic protagonist from The Scarlet Letter remains important today because...

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....