Hamlet is one of the great works in English literature for many reasons, but among them is the fact that it can serve as a bit of a...

For a a family with such proudly self-proclaimed hardiness, House Stark doesn't demonstrate much staying power. I'd be wary of spoilers...

Talking about Rufus the other day reminded me of another of my favorite time travelers, the addled genius Doc Brown from the Back to the...

Office Space is a blisteringly accurate hit job on the soul-sucking nature of the workplace in modern America. As the saying goes, it's...

Greetings, my excellent friends. You know, for a 1989 fluff piece, Bill and Ted's Excellent Adventure holds up. Not only is it the...

The Dark Crystal is a trippy visit to the darker and more epic places in the souls of Jim Henson and Frank Oz, and anyone who watched it...

I've only ever seen the original Terminator movie and the blockbusting sequel, Terminator 2: Judgment Day. My understanding is that the...

Tad Williams is a well-known fantasy author, but my favorite of his catalogue is his first novel, the strange, complex cat story...

For Mother's Day, I thought long and hard about which fictional mother I would consider my favorite. There are certainly a lot of...

Hieronymus Karl Frederick Baron von Munchausen, to be precise, the central figure and towering presence in Terry Gilliam's bizarre,...

The early 1980s were a great time for wisecracking sitcom characters. Cheers gave us Carla, Family Ties gave us Alex, and Benson gave...

Faramir, Captain of Gondor, spends too much time in the shadow of Aragorn and Boromir and the litter of hobbits during the Lord of the...