I've never been a fan of anime. It's just not my cup of sencha. And while I dipped a very brief toe in the card and video games, Pokemon...

It's no secret that Steven Seagal is a bizarre creature, but in the late '80s and early '90s he was the epitome of the cinematic bad-ass...

I suspect 1987's Dirty Dancing has long been a guilty pleasure for many of my vintage, both women and men. It's a fairly uncomplicated...

Someone's been swimming in raw sewage, and he's not the only one who loves it. I've mentioned before that parody films are a dicey...

John Byrne and Chris Claremont's joint tenure on the X-Men from 1977 to 1981 produced some of the best comic books of all time, including...

Temeraire is a dragon. Lots of dragons in fantasy, of course, from Smaug to Toothless to Puff. What makes Temeraire different is that he...

Here's a fun question: Satan, real or fictional? I've included other purported deities on this list, but that's not really the debate I'm...

1992's My Cousin Vinny is a fun, predictable little movie, with Karate Kid Ralph Macchio clinging to the last vestiges of his cinematic...

In the mid-1990s, animation was undergoing a renaissance, led by Disney's renewed feature-length greatness but also by heightened...

Sinbad comes late to the Arabic fable-cycle we know as the 1001 Arabian Nights, appearing first in recognizable form in the 17th century,...

There are dozens of denizens of Springfield who could make this list. Lugubrious, spineless newscaster Kent Brockman and unabashed...

The Autobots' resident hothead, Bumblebee's fiercer, more aggressive, less milquetoast brother, Cliffjumper was always my favorite...