Greetings, my excellent friends. You know, for a 1989 fluff piece, Bill and Ted's Excellent Adventure holds up. Not only is it the...

The Dark Crystal is a trippy visit to the darker and more epic places in the souls of Jim Henson and Frank Oz, and anyone who watched it...

I've only ever seen the original Terminator movie and the blockbusting sequel, Terminator 2: Judgment Day. My understanding is that the...

Tad Williams is a well-known fantasy author, but my favorite of his catalogue is his first novel, the strange, complex cat story...

For Mother's Day, I thought long and hard about which fictional mother I would consider my favorite. There are certainly a lot of...

Hieronymus Karl Frederick Baron von Munchausen, to be precise, the central figure and towering presence in Terry Gilliam's bizarre,...

The early 1980s were a great time for wisecracking sitcom characters. Cheers gave us Carla, Family Ties gave us Alex, and Benson gave...

Faramir, Captain of Gondor, spends too much time in the shadow of Aragorn and Boromir and the litter of hobbits during the Lord of the...

I like Dead Poets Society. It's a nice movie, with just the right admixture of tragedy and inspiration, although it threatens at times to...

I've been in a mood lately, fending off a minor streak of bad luck, But you know what? I'm not the sole survivor of the universe that...

Believe it or not, there was a time in the mid-1990s when Drew Barrymore and Adam Sandler appeared poised to become the Meg Ryan and Tom...

It's been a long day, and I've been delayed in getting to posting today's favorite character. Well, to show that I retain some small...