As we head into our first day at Universal Studios Florida, the immersive Harry Potter experience beckons. After Hermione, the definitive...

As we get ready to board a plane with the kiddos for the cross-country flight to Orlando, my mind turns to Clark Griswold. Everybody has...

In the days before YouTube, Netflix, or even DVR, some things on broadcast TV qualified as "specials" or "events". V definitely fell into...

I'm not a huge Will Ferrell fan. He's kind of the same joke, over and over again. That said, it's a pretty funny joke, and he actually...

We brought the boys to see Zootopia yesterday, so this is fresh in my mind. Plus, a bunny for Easter! Though not, as Judy herself would...

So much of the dynamic of the original Star Trek focused on Kirk and Spock, on their friendship and tension, on the balance of body and...

Fast Times at Ridgemont High is an absolute classic, and the reasons are legion. Star-making early performances by Sean Penn, Judge...

The minions may be the ubiquitous canary merchandising faces of the Despicable Me franchise, but they're not the reason for its success....

The wizened little green freakshow in the swamp. The syntax-scrambling zen puppet (and yes, puppet > CGI). The tiny twirling lightsaber...

My first taste of the Evil Dead movies came at a Splendor cast party in Angus Merry's basement twenty-four years ago. The original Evil...

With basketball season front and center, let's make one thing clear: Hoosiers is the best sports movie ever made. Oh, there are others in...

I came to the Marvel Universe in the mid-1980s, when most of the established characters and teams had 20-25 years of back story. I poured...