When the 1994 movie Cabin Boy opens, Nathaniel Mayweather is wrapping up his stint at a posh finishing school for wealthy young men, a...

As I don suit and tie and head back to work after a year of domesticity, I'm forcibly reminded of another tireless New England icon of...

The Cheshire Cat of Lewis Carroll's Alice's Adventures in Wonderland is famous for his grin, and there's a reason he's smiling. In a...

From 1986 to 1992, Steve Martin enjoyed his greatest sustained cinematic success (The Jerk, in 1979, a bit of an outlier). Little Shop of...

I hesitate to tackle the Chronicles of Narnia here, because I have such mixed feelings about the series. In some ways, I find them...

The A-Team was, in keeping with the endemic foolishness of the mid-1980s, a ludicrous premise. To quote: "A crack commando unit sent to...

I was the Transformers guy back in the day; my friend Jeff DiBartolomeo was the guy with the G.I. Joe toys at his house. I was always...

The gluttonous and grasping commissioner of Hazzard County and antagonist of the Duke family, Boss Hogg had his pudgy fingers in...

George Orwell's Animal Farm is a sophisticated allegorical treatment of the failure of the Soviet experiment, an examination of how noble...

Nick Naylor is a lobbyist. For a big corporation. That makes cigarettes. Scum of the earth, right? Sleazy paid influence-peddler. It's a...

DodgeBall: A True Underdog Story is a bundle of satire. It announces right in its title that it parodies the predictable sports movie...

I've always considered Beauty and the Beast to be the weakest of the Disney Renaissance films, behind Aladdin, The Little Mermaid, and...