One of my absolute favorite children's books, both as a boy myself and as a parent reading to my own kids, is Tikki Tikki Tembo. It's...

Maybe I have a thing for lady doctors. After all, I thought Sherry Stringfield's Dr. Lewis on ER was pretty hot stuff back in the day....

Pixar does excellent work. Last summer's entry, Inside Out, was no exception. Though not a terribly original premise (I kept thinking of...

It's become easy in recent years to dismiss Tom Cruise, to reduce him to the punchline of a Scientology joke, or a couch-jumping sketch....

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...