Contributor: Bob Smithouser

I love quiz shows. Grew up on ’em, really. As a preschooler, I played at my mother’s feet while she watched Jeopardy!. In my teen years, when my friends were doing their homework with music in the background, I often did mine to the sound of bells, buz …

The title character is sweet, smart, strong, noble, and the most modest heroine to inhabit a Disney cartoon since “Beauty and the Beast.”

The film does a good job of making ignoble characters sympathetic, inspiring viewers to side with three criminals and one adulteress, while jeering local law enforcement.

My grandfather used to say, “If you don’t think, you feel.” He was right. A case in point, the birthday-party parent on America’s Funniest Videos who decides to adjust the piñata after he’s handed the stick to a blindfolded 8-year-old. Ouch! But someti …

Do teens really need another coming-of-age comedy that plumbs for laughs with vulgarity, homosexuality and substance abuse?

Two years after the events of the first film, we find Stuart fully acclimated into the pristine Little clan.

Father Kiernan is less a man of faith than a man of science. He’s paid by the Vatican to investigate unusual phenomena …

Have you ever had a nasty case of earworms? Don’t get grossed out. That simply means you’ve had a catchy song stuck in your head that keeps looping uncontrollably. Like dinner guests still showing off their vacation photos after midnight, it just … won …

Lucky Numbers is a black comedy about rotten people doing rotten things to each other, all in the name of greed.

Here is a movie that is free-spirited, melodramatic hokum for Britney Spears fans and Britney Spears fans alone.

Jim Carrey is a naive insurance salesman whose humdrum existence is, unbeknownst to him, being telecast live around the globe 24 hours a day.

Julia Bluhm is one of my heroes. Recently, the 14-year-old took on Seventeen magazine, armed only with an online petition and a passion for seeing the mag publish more authentic photos of young women. And she seems to have won that battle. At least tha …

P.O.D. still shouts out a wake-up call to unchurched fans of passionate, pile driver rock. But some of those shouts are coarse here, and they’re going to alienate some Christian “Warriors.”

Imagine owning a cabinet that can bring the toys placed inside to life. For one boy, that fantasy becomes reality in “The Indian in the Cupboard.”

Will the real Spider-Man please stand up? OK, color me conflicted. I’m a long-time Spider-Fan who, on one hand, really enjoyed the new Andrew Garfield reboot, The Amazing Spider-Man. As a film unto itself, Amazing delivers 137 minutes of popcorn-gobbli …