Contributor: Paul Asay

Now, there’s nothing wrong with a little dumb fun, but Hobbs & Shaw comes with lots of un-fun accoutrements.

Once Upon a Time … in Hollywood ushers us into the last light of Hollywood’s Golden Age—romanticizing it, glorifying it and sullying it.

Skin’s messages of hope and redemption are submerged in vats of problematic ink.

Bethany Hamilton: Unstoppable, a new documentary about the famed female surfer, is a love story.

Far From Home is a fine, fun, serviceable superhero flick. But like Peter Parker’s European vacation, it contains some unwelcome surprises, too.

A stay at a drug-filled pagan commune in rural Sweden might not be everyone’s ideal vacation.

One look at the titular building in Batman: Arkham Asylum, and you can understand why Gotham City has such a problem with homicidal madmen. Outside, the place makes the typical cemetery look like a Smurf theme park. Inside, it’s even worse, what with i …

This movie, like Chucky himself, should’ve never been made.

You’d think the characters in the SoulCalibur series would’ve gotten tired of the whole “quest for the sacred sword(s)” thing by now and retreated to their couches to watch Matlock reruns. Not so. After 12 years, Cervantes, Astaroth, Yoshimitsu et al a …

Rubi Malone slaughters almost everyone she meets and would do almost anything for the right price. That means the blood of thousands is on her hands, head, legs, torso …

MiB: International holds true to the film franchise’s light tone. But it sports some extraterrestrial problems, too.

While most video games give your thumbs a vigorous workout, Nintendo’s Wii has the market cornered for getting the rest of your body in gear. Wii Sports Resort takes that cornered market, jumps up and down with it for a while and then punts it into the …

We all have ideas about what happens to us after we die. We think about how we’ll walk through the Pearly Gates, hang with the angels or surround the throne of God. We might imagine heaven as being filled with fluffy clouds, classical architecture, tow …

When Ma ain’t happy, ain’t no one happy. Including those of us in the audience.

Even as Rocketman chronicles Elton’s many missteps and shows us his failures, it can’t help but unintentionally celebrate them in a way.