Richard Scarry's Busytown can be a bewildering place, full of vaguely continental anthropomorphic beasties doing all sorts of things -...

When I was a kid, I found Colossus to be the most boring of the X-Men. He was a big guy who could turn into steel, giving the team some...

Vince Vaughn, like so many other modern comedic actors (Will Ferrell, for instance), plays one character. When the material is good and...

Ovid first tells us of Pygmalion a classical sculptor so disgusted by the Propoetidian whores that he swears off women. He then crafts an...

The Fantastic Four are a unique bunch in comic history. The first collaboration of Stan Lee and Jack Kirby, the team's debut is generally...

To be honest, I'm not a huge fan of Bull Durham. But then, I don't really like Field of Dreams, either. (The Natural and Major League...

1985 was in many respects a silly time. And one of its silliest products was a movie about a board game, armed with the inventive conceit...