City on the Edge of Forever is without question the finest of the original Star Trek episodes, and rightfully has a place among the best...

Worth Winning is a fairly run-of-the-mill 1989 romantic comedy with an improbably silly plot, and yet it's always been a guilty pleasure...

Where the Wild Things Are is such a colossal, iconic, cherished book that I hesitate to make any truly declarative observations about it....

Rodney Dangerfield was masterful in Caddyshack, but I've always felt his magnum opus was Back to School. As self-made clothing tycoon...

Since it's my birthday, I'm highlighting one of my favorite characters from my own work. As much as my mind and heart are currently...

When Marvel resurrected the X-Men in 1975, they moved from the concept of teenage students to older, more seasoned mutants from around...

Let's not mince words - Barbarella is some weird, funky stuff. It's very much a product of its time, a sexploitation classic from the...

Ferris Bueller shouldn't be anyone's hero. He's a borderline sociopath, using everything and everyone for his own purposes with express...

Hamlet is one of the great works in English literature for many reasons, but among them is the fact that it can serve as a bit of a...

For a a family with such proudly self-proclaimed hardiness, House Stark doesn't demonstrate much staying power. I'd be wary of spoilers...

Talking about Rufus the other day reminded me of another of my favorite time travelers, the addled genius Doc Brown from the Back to the...

Office Space is a blisteringly accurate hit job on the soul-sucking nature of the workplace in modern America. As the saying goes, it's...