Mystery Men is a fun, quirky sendup of the superhero genre that swiftly came and went in 1999 leaving a very small dent in the box...

Some might argue for Caddyshack, or Groundhog Day, or Stripes or Scrooged or Kingpin. Maybe one of his later, more quirky efforts, like...

O Brother, Where Art Thou? is a fun film. Loosely based on Homer's Odyssey, it's a journey narrative set in Depression-era Mississippi...

Last night I finished reading aloud to my boys the book Junket: The Dog Who Liked Everything Just So, written in 1955 by Anne H. White...

I am as much a fan of George R.R. Martin's A Song of Ice and Fire as anyone, especially the early volumes before he became hopelessly...

I pretend to no great intimacy with the original Conan stories of Robert E. Howard or the subsequent de Camp/Carter versions, or even the...

With other comic characters, I usually simply refer to the costumed name, but so much of what makes Iron Man compelling is the man behind...

Say Anything is a seminal movie for folks of my vintage. For the most part, it's a formulaic teen love story, a Cameron Crowe...

There are two reasons I love The Martian. First and foremost, it's a great story. Fresh, original, somehow weaving dense science into a...

Sergio Aragone's Groo is a childish, ludicrous figure. He is irredeemably stupid, slovenly, and clumsy, an intentional homage to Conan...

Let's face it - Ripley is a badass. She's not getting rescued by the hero, she's the hero doing the saving and surviving. All of this has...

My attachment to Gone With The Wind stems largely (though not entirely) from a 1989 viewing in the balcony of the late, lamented Ioka...