Are you pondering what I'm pondering? A genetically modified mouse with unlimited intellect, unbridled arrogance, and unsatiable...

I wonder, if I had undertaken this exercise twenty years ago, how I'd feel about Bill Cosby and The Cosby Show. I watched it as a kid, we...

The Indian in the Cupboard resides in a thorny place in my life. Written in 1980 by Lynne Reid Banks, the book was a favorite of mine as...

Let's be honest - there were very much two versions of Amidala. There was the weepy, whiny, Sweet Valley Naboo pushover who made goo-goo...

The 2006 young adult historical novel The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing: Traitor to the Nation is a fascinating, ambitious,...

If you'd asked me when I was a teenager to name my favorite prehistoric protagonist from the anachronistic cartoon The Flintstones, I...

There are a lot of things to celebrate about the Harry Potter books, many of which I've touched on earlier in this list. One of the...

The time had to come eventually, I suppose. Next May I'll turn 42, the age at which Lester Burnham experiences his...

We all know a guy (and have, at times in our own lives, been a guy or even - gasp - a girl) like shallow Hal Larson. Superficial, caught...

The premise of the Casca series is a phenomenal and basic one. A Roman soldier, Casca stabs Jesus Christ with his spear while the Son of...

The origins of Dazzler are so wonderfully representative of late-70s corporate bumbling and creative bankruptcy that it's amazing such a...

The Toy Story films are perhaps Pixar's greatest, most enduring achievement. All of us as children imagined that our toys were more than...