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Adam Sandler is a ridiculous, infantile creature whose shtick has grown increasingly unfunny as time has worn on. And yet, early on this...

I loved the Paddington books when I was a little boy. Long before Harry Potter, there was the window into the just-a-little-different...

Thomas Hardy's seminal 1878 novel, The Return of the Native, is a story about small towns and expectations, about roles and behaviors...

"Look at this lunatic! He's lumping both of us into a single post!" "It could be worse. He could have just picked you!" "I don't know...

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Nothing ever happens to Jim, at least, nothing interesting. Jim's Journal by Scott Dikkers (a co-founder of The Onion) has been running...

I am among those annoying souls who read the Game of Thrones books before ever seeing any of the HBO adaptations. My response to most of...

The night was humid. Most probably recall Anne Ramsey from her performance as Mama Fratelli in The Goonies, but I prefer her as Momma...

Herman Melville wrote Bartleby, The Scrivener: A Short Story of Wall Street in 1853. It is the tale of a nonentity, an office clerk who...

Eddie Murphy was such a huge star in the 1980s. It's hard to remember sometimes these days, when he can't find his rhythm (other than his...

The Myth Adventures series, initially written by Robert Aspirin alone and later in collaboration with Jodi Lynn Nye, are the silliest...