Fast Times at Ridgemont High is an absolute classic, and the reasons are legion. Star-making early performances by Sean Penn, Judge...

The minions may be the ubiquitous canary merchandising faces of the Despicable Me franchise, but they're not the reason for its success....

The wizened little green freakshow in the swamp. The syntax-scrambling zen puppet (and yes, puppet > CGI). The tiny twirling lightsaber...

My first taste of the Evil Dead movies came at a Splendor cast party in Angus Merry's basement twenty-four years ago. The original Evil...

With basketball season front and center, let's make one thing clear: Hoosiers is the best sports movie ever made. Oh, there are others in...

I came to the Marvel Universe in the mid-1980s, when most of the established characters and teams had 20-25 years of back story. I poured...

It might have something to do with having an Army doctor in the house, but M*A*S*H has found its way into our Netflix rotation. It's a...

Cervantes' masterwork is a dense, complicated book. Often regarded as the first modern novel, The Ingenious Gentleman Don Quixote of La...

I make no argument that Far and Away is a great movie. It is a fun movie, a sumptuously-shot fairy tale/period piece, with a masterful...

When we were roommates at UNH, Joel Mellin introduced me to a variety of cultural influences. Some I've managed, with a lot of hard work,...

This is when I get to play my comic hipster card. Wolverine was my favorite long before he became the overexposed Batman of the Marvel...

As Americans, we like to think of ourselves as the biggest and the strongest, honest and tough. As an invented ethnicity, lacking the...