Sure, Cosmo Kramer is a comedic icon. But the same year Seinfeld hit the small screen, actor Michael Richards appeared on the big screen...

Today I honor the fiftieth anniversary of the debut episode of the original (and still the best) Star Trek with a tip of the cap to the...

So, what would you little maniacs like to discuss first? Weird Science is perhaps the quirkiest entry in the catalogue of 80's-teen film...

I've always enjoyed the archetype of the ancient, white-bearded mage, repository of arcane wisdom and mystic power. Merlin, Gandalf, Don...

Oscar Wilde's 1895 play The Importance of Being Earnest is a popular work, and for good reason. It's funny, scathing social satire,...

The star of Bill Amend's long-running comic strip Foxtrot has always been youngest son Jason, the uber-nerd and proto-genius, a sort of...

A number of heroic, lovable rogues and bad-ass outright villains have appeared throughout this list. Harry Flashman is neither of these....

In 1980, the Incredible Hulk TV show was enjoying strong ratings. At about the same time, the boob tube was given the Bionic Woman, a...

The Secret Life of Walter Mitty was a short story by James Thurber published in 1939, and was sufficiently seminal that the titular...

There's been an effort in recent popular culture to create strong female characters (or, somewhat less inventively, to reimagine...

Sitting here at Logan Airport, waiting to fly back out west, I'm reminded of 2009's Up in the Air and lead character Ryan Bingham....

Gremlins is an iconic film to those of my vintage. Released on the same day in 1984 as Ghostbusters, it has the odd distinction of being...