The gluttonous and grasping commissioner of Hazzard County and antagonist of the Duke family, Boss Hogg had his pudgy fingers in...

George Orwell's Animal Farm is a sophisticated allegorical treatment of the failure of the Soviet experiment, an examination of how noble...

Nick Naylor is a lobbyist. For a big corporation. That makes cigarettes. Scum of the earth, right? Sleazy paid influence-peddler. It's a...

DodgeBall: A True Underdog Story is a bundle of satire. It announces right in its title that it parodies the predictable sports movie...

I've always considered Beauty and the Beast to be the weakest of the Disney Renaissance films, behind Aladdin, The Little Mermaid, and...

As one might expect of a film made in 1964 and starring Don Knotts, The Incredible Mr. Limpet is one of those nostalgic childhood...

Has there ever been a more pathetic, pitiable creature on television than Al Bundy? The sad-sack, shoe-selling paterfamilias of the...

Amora, beguiling Asgardian witch, made her debut in 1964 when Thor's adventures were still in their Journey into Mystery infancy. She...

In 1981, Disney was undergoing some changes that would, less than a decade later, lead to the "Disney Renaissance" as the mouse empire...

For Love or Money is a little-known, formulaic rom-com vehicle for Michael J. Fox. Released in 1993, it resides in a career trough...

Star Trek: Voyager premiered while I was in college, and I was very ready to give it a try. Deep Space Nine had arrived during my...

As I discussed earlier in this list with Hamlet, Hawthorne's classic protagonist from The Scarlet Letter remains important today because...