Contributor: Paul Asay

It’s a harrowing spaceship-themed roller-coaster ride of a movie, and it’s not without its content concerns. But in the end, we get out of our pods feeling inspired.

They got to sing a song or two when Miley Cyrus went 3-D. Now they’ve got their own show. And why not? Could thousands of screaming girls be wrong?

Baggage Claim flies high with its message of matrimonial commitment—then gets grounded by premarital sexual content.

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.