Contributor: Paul Asay

Four acting legends go to Sin City to collect another paycheck, market a casino and create a salacious (but sometimes sweet) movie.

The weather report in Castle Rock, Maine: Foggy and gloomy. Showers of flesh-eating monsters likely. (What else could it be in a Stephen King movie?)

Can a serial killer be a nice guy, too? Kevin Costner’s Mr. Brooks seems to think so—and his imaginary friend (William Hurt) agrees.

A superbad ode to sex and suds about high schoolers determined to party-hearty with the big boys on campus.

‘Watchmen’ is being called the superhero movie of the year. We have a different take.

There’s no country for old sin. That’s what The Counselor tells us. So why does it show us so much of it?

Rock ‘n’ rollers didn’t invent sex and drugs. Actually, this biographical drama about Chess Records artists Muddy Waters, Little Walter, Howlin’ Wolf, Etta James and Chuck Berry makes the case that it was the other way around.

Bo knows baseball. And Tyler Perry knows melodrama. In his latest play-turned-movie, four couples clash at a Colorado retreat—and (mostly) come away better people than they were before.

All Is Lost is an intense movie, even without offering quantities of content (one f-word, a minimum of violence, no sex).

The Fifth Estate is a dense, ponderous (and sometimes foul) look at Julian Assange and the complex array of secrets he helped leak.

I’m in Love With a Church Girl can give moviegoers a taste of what the beginnings of that God-given change can look like. A glimpse of the spiritual hope surrender to Christ provides.

Through the eyes of a beast, moviegoers see the horrors of humanity—ultimately overcome by beauty and honor and love.

The fierce finale of this story was broadcast around the world more than three years ago. But even so, the film offers a surprise or two.

The more people watch Machete kill, the more I wonder about the danger of forgetting that violence—real violence—isn’t at all a comedic caper.

Grace Unplugged can feel, at times, like The Miley Cyrus Story: What Could’ve Been.