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...

Watchmen likely deserves its praise as perhaps the finest graphic novel the medium has produced. It's layered and compelling without...

Kevin Smith's comedic treatise on Catholicism tends to be divisive. Some love it, some hate it, and some are - appropriately enough -...

There are a lot of heroic humans and demigods in Greek mythology. The vast majority are tough guys, warrior kings in mold of Perseus and...

Last night I watched The Nightmare Before Christmas for the first time. Hard to believe, I know, but in the 23 years since it was...

The Police Academy phenomenon is fascinating to me. The first movie had a novel premise, interesting characters, and was worth some...

With the passing of Florence Henderson, this seems like an appropriate day to profile my favorite Brady: Jan. Sure, Marcia was supposed...