Kicking off my version of the Twelve Days of Christmas here at Favorite Fictional Characters with a character I really like from a...

Kurt Vonnegut, among his other superpowers, is a master of the short story. His 1968 collection Welcome to the Monkey House might be...

True Confessions: I don't love Blade Runner. Oh, I respect Ridley Scott and adore Harrison Ford and I totally acknowledge how important...

Yesterday we took the boys to see Disney's newest offering, the Polynesian girl-power romp Moana. It's a lush visual experience, rich in...

Bugs Bunny has had numerous antagonists over his long career. Elmer Fudd, Yosemite Sam, the Tasmanian Devil, among others. None have...

There are scoundrels like Han Solo, swashbuckling smugglers who never grow up, never settle down, never trade in the buccaneer life for...

I know The Odd Couple originated on Broadway with Walter Mathau as the lovable sportswriting slob Oscar Madison, and that old friend...

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...