Sesame Street was a big deal when I was a little guy. Only six years old when I was born, it was already firmly established as an iconic...

Kicking off the second half of this yearlong exercise with yet another of the despicable rogues who populate this list. I enjoy a good...

While A Prayer for Owen Meany is undeniably my favorite John Irving novel, Cider House Rules is a not-too-distant second. His loving...

Robin Hood was never really a hero of mine (my own political leanings aside). And other than maybe Errol Flynn's prehistoric relics, or...

I've never been a fan of anime. It's just not my cup of sencha. And while I dipped a very brief toe in the card and video games, Pokemon...

It's no secret that Steven Seagal is a bizarre creature, but in the late '80s and early '90s he was the epitome of the cinematic bad-ass...

I suspect 1987's Dirty Dancing has long been a guilty pleasure for many of my vintage, both women and men. It's a fairly uncomplicated...

Someone's been swimming in raw sewage, and he's not the only one who loves it. I've mentioned before that parody films are a dicey...

John Byrne and Chris Claremont's joint tenure on the X-Men from 1977 to 1981 produced some of the best comic books of all time, including...

Temeraire is a dragon. Lots of dragons in fantasy, of course, from Smaug to Toothless to Puff. What makes Temeraire different is that he...

Here's a fun question: Satan, real or fictional? I've included other purported deities on this list, but that's not really the debate I'm...

1992's My Cousin Vinny is a fun, predictable little movie, with Karate Kid Ralph Macchio clinging to the last vestiges of his cinematic...