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...

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...