Contributor: Paul Asay

It’s 2023 and time for another night of lawlessness, a night when murder is legal, our worst sins are condoned and society rids itself of its most “problematic” members.

The Exorcism of Emily Rose director Scott Derrickson again dives into the very heart of darkness as he explores how we might ultimately escape it.

According to Winter’s Bone author Daniel Woodrell, “These people are so alienated from American culture that it’s like a parallel universe.” But they still know about love.

Comedian Bill Maher’s distaste for religion has been a staple of his stand-up routine for 30 years. His movie adds pictures and little else.

After painstakingly engineering intermittent windshield wipers in his basement—with a little soldering help from his children—Bob Kearns gets cheated out of his invention by the big automakers. He WILL NOT stand for that.

It’s a movie I’d like to recommend to friends. But when I start developing a bad case of writer’s cramp from checking off so many profanities, I know I’ll never be able to do so.

While Eastwood’s hard work shows, the choices he made also come with a cost: Yes, a moral cost for those who see his work, but also the outright loss of those discerning moviegoers who never will.

Robert Pattinson sheds his twinkling skin and then shreds it in this bitter, brutal, dystopian drama.

The fact that he’s dead doesn’t stop Jigsaw from wreaking more blood-soaked, torture-filled havoc in this fourth franchise installment which hopes to prove once again that people will pay to see pain.

Should we find fault with a story devoted to the tragedies and triumphs of teens struggling with cancer? To their courage? To their journey toward joy?

Talk about your anti-green flick. Based on the best-selling book by Scott Smith, this ruthless gorefest about carnivorous plants will have people sending donations to deforestation projects all over the globe.

Disney’s most memorable villain returns, bent on all manner of wickedness. What can possibly stop this “mistress of all evil”? Could it be … love?

Tyler Perry’s famously abrasive alter ego does hard time. But that doesn’t mean she’s scared straight.

It’s time for camp again, and these Disney rockers hope to make your stay a pleasant one. But it turns out that they have something more to share than just the best way to melt a s’more.

Saccharine was invented so we’d have an adjective to describe ‘Camp Rock.’ But Demi Lovato and the Jonas Brothers do manage to deliver a bit of nutrition along with the, uh, camp.