To be honest, I'm not a huge fan of Bull Durham. But then, I don't really like Field of Dreams, either. (The Natural and Major League...

1985 was in many respects a silly time. And one of its silliest products was a movie about a board game, armed with the inventive conceit...

Watchmen likely deserves its praise as perhaps the finest graphic novel the medium has produced. It's layered and compelling without...

Kevin Smith's comedic treatise on Catholicism tends to be divisive. Some love it, some hate it, and some are - appropriately enough -...

There are a lot of heroic humans and demigods in Greek mythology. The vast majority are tough guys, warrior kings in mold of Perseus and...

Last night I watched The Nightmare Before Christmas for the first time. Hard to believe, I know, but in the 23 years since it was...

The Police Academy phenomenon is fascinating to me. The first movie had a novel premise, interesting characters, and was worth some...

With the passing of Florence Henderson, this seems like an appropriate day to profile my favorite Brady: Jan. Sure, Marcia was supposed...

I spent a lot of time thinking this morning about what character I could choose to profile who could represent how thankful I am to have...

Yeah, baby. Yeah! The Austin Powers movies were essentially one joke. Fortunately, it was a pretty good joke, a vein of comedic ore deep...

As much as I loved the classic Transformers cartoon and toy line, nothing screamed early-1980s merchandising-animation tie-in more than...

I have mixed feelings about Legends of the Fall. It's a visually and musically sumptuous film (Horner's score is a go-to for writing...