Satire movies are really a hit or miss phenomenon, with most winding up firmly in the miss column. For every Naked Gun or Airplane! there...

I've never been a huge boxing fan. I can think of perhaps ten total minutes of real-time boxing I've watched, though I've seen my share...

The Wonder Years might have been about early adolescence in the late '60s and early '70s, but aside from fashions and home decor, it...

I've argued before that I believe we're in the midst of a golden age of children's movies. Walking into The Lego Movie, I didn't think I...

It's easy to look back thirty years ago and dismiss Top Gun as a big-budget exercise in masculine jingoism, a paean to American military...

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...