Contributor: Paul Asay

Through telling the harrowing tale of Barbara Leininger’s 1755 kidnapping by American Indians, Alone Yet Not Alone is committed to illustrating the biblical truth that death is not to be feared as much as separation from God.

Don Jon tells us pornography is a terrible, addictive thing—while continuing to gawk and grin at that very terrible, addictive thing.

It is first and second and last a story. A story told without apology or a lot of excess window dressing.

Everyone’s got a story. We’re all central characters in our own narratives filled with drama, action, passion and comedy. Even mobsters have stories. Just sometimes not very good ones.

Riddick, as a person, isn’t all bad. Mostly bad, maybe. But not all bad. If pressed, I guess we could say the same thing about Riddick, the movie. It’s not all bad. Just mostly.

Tyler Perry struggles with abandonment, abuse, drunkenness and adultery—mixing those things with Madea’s madcap mania and a message of … salvation.

Machete began as a fake trailer targeting hard-core fans of the 2007 double-feature splatterfest Grindhouse. Now, it’s all too real—and gruesome.

The new new-relationship rule: Wait 90 days, not 90 minutes. Oh, and buy Steve Harvey’s book too!

Getaway? More like get away! Ethan Hawke and Selena Gomez take a tumble in this vanity vehicle that mashes up Fast & Furious, Taken and … The Dukes of Hazzard? It’s certainly not Wizards of Waverly Place.

Donald Miller’s “Nonreligious Thoughts on Christian Spirituality” gets a plot as it’s guided to movie theaters by Christian musician-turned-director Steve Taylor. Will it be just as polarizing on the screen as it was in print?

Mirror, mirror, on the wall, what’s the bloodiest movie of them all? This morbid mess starring Kiefer Sutherland and Amy Smart is certainly in the running.

If they can do movies about spelling bees, they can certainly do them about debate teams. Denzel Washington stars in and directs a rousing period drama that spotlights sentence structure.

When terrorists strike, everyone agrees it’s a good idea to arrest them and put them on trial, along with whoever might’ve been complicit in the operation. But this movie wants to know what we should do if one of the accomplices is the government.

UPDATED REVIEW: Over a quarter century old and still running like a kid right out of college, Madden lets loose a big cheer for the DEFENSE in its 2015 edition.

Perhaps it should’ve been kept under wraps.