The X-Men were unusual in the early 1960s for several reasons. They were young, students really, but more importantly they were...

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It is likely that some portion of my affection for A Prayer for Owen Meany stems from the setting. Irving's Gravesend is a...

The Empire Strikes Back is the first movie I can remember seeing in the theater. I was five years old, and it's hard to parse my actual...

I could probably do a whole week or more just on West Wing characters. Among them would be, without question, Amy Gardner. There's so...

There's no question that City on the Edge of Forever is the best episode of the original Star Trek series. The top five is open to some...

The Princess Bride is terrific. Let me explain...no, it is too much. Let me sum up: Goldman's book is a brilliant romp that evokes and...

I always regarded Babylon 5 as the poor man's Star Trek (specifically, the poor man's Deep Space 9). A few years back, at the urging of...

I was never all that impressed or affected by Bambi. His mother's death wasn't a seminal moment for me. But boy, did I dig Thumper. Here...

I always loved that in a time that valued and celebrated men of battle prowess and epic strength, there was an Odysseus (or Ulysses). A...

There are plenty of reasons Cheers is in the conversation as greatest sitcom of all time. Cliff, Norm, Coach (always better than Woody),...

I first read Chaim Potok's The Chosen when it was assigned in early high school. I was struck then by Danny Saunders, a character so...