In need of comedy today, so we turn to Chevy Chase in his late prime. Chase was one of the heavy hitter graduates of SNL's original...

With a mildly important football game on later today, this seems like a good time to talk about Friday Night Lights. A few years back...

It's always an unexpected pleasure when Hollywood's mucking around with your nostalgia produces something worthwhile. Too often, the...

Along with H.G. Wells, Jules Verne is rightfully considered one of the founding fathers of science fiction. My favorite work of his,...

Piers Anthony is a strange duck. He's an enormously prolific fantasy/sci-fi engine, having cranked out well over a hundred books over a...

Back in 2001 or so, Al Pace and Colin Woods insisted that I read a thick fantasy tome called A Game of Thrones. I wasn't really looking...

One of the challenges I've faced in compiling this list is that so many of my favorite characters in literature and film aren't fictional...

I think we can all agree that The Shawshank Redemption is a fantastic movie. If you haven't, I strongly recommend reading Stephen King's...

I love the 1998 film Meet Joe Black, even though it has its share of problems. It's too long, it's too saccharine in places, and Brad...

In 1980, X-Men co-creators Chris Claremont and John Byrne concluded the greatest, most tragic saga in comics history by killing Jean...

Let's forget for a moment that modern Hollywood ruined the Transformers like they've ruined so much else that was good from yesteryear...

Die Hard was supposed to be Bruce Willis' movie. An action flick, a shoot-'em-up. And it was, with classic lines and lots of bullets and...