Contributor: Paul Asay

Jennifer Lawrence, Bradley Cooper and Robert De Niro get a little crazy in this difficult love story. Because here’s the thing about silver linings: They’re always in the company of clouds.

Cash. Big Cash. That’s what Skyfall earned at the box office this weekend. Daniel Craig’s third turn as 007 gunned down an estimated $87.8 million in North America, augmenting the $428.8 million it has already made overseas. That’s about $516.6 million …

Don’t tell my editor this … but I have a soft spot for James Bond. It’s partly my grandmother’s fault. Grandma, a woman who was our family’s embodiment of prim, old-fashioned perfection, had a weakness for only two things: the Phoenix Suns basketball t …

Daniel Craig’s James does feel grittier than some of the Bonds of yesteryear. And Skyfall doesn’t feel anything at all like light, flyaway entertainment. But perhaps that’s a good thing.

Was Honest Abe actually honest? That’s not the only question this Steven Spielberg-helmed biopic sets out to answer. But it does present us with a substantive start.

Game over, man. Disney Animation’s Wreck-It Ralph, about an old-school videogame villain who’s tired of being the (literal) fall guy, made the week’s box office competition a no-doubt route. The sweet (but occasionally crass) fable collected an estimat …

It’s not often you see a 3-foot-6 zombie, particularly one that knocks on your door. But that’s what happened to me Wednesday night, groaning not for brains, but for individually-wrapped Twix bars. The zombie in question was tastefully done, as far as …

You’ll need iron eyes and a heart of stone to make it through this blood- and death-obsessed martial arts miasma.

For those who live in the darkest corners of society, the worth of a human life is based on simple supply and demand—what one person is willing to pay for another.

In Chasing Mavericks we’re introduced to a guy who’ll surf the biggest waves he can find—even if it kills him. His dedication is inspiring, to say the least. So should young moviegoers start chasing their own Mavericks?

So, I found this eerie video footage of some guy counting the box office receipts for the weekend. I’d show it to you, but it’s really way too scary to put it on the Internet for everyone to see. But here’s essentially what happens: He’s in this darken …

Is it really already (so soon) time for another round of mysteriously moving doors, scary shadows, demons that go bump in the night … and the stationary cameras that creepily capture it all?

I have seen the inside of Google—the very symbol of technological omnipotence—and it looks like a cross between an Orwellian preschool and the Death Star. I know, I know. Hard to believe. I was expecting something different. A little … fluffier, perhap …

Five—count ’em, five—national releases trundled out to theaters this week, but none of them could take down Liam Neeson. Then again, if they’d seen Taken 2, maybe they were just too scared to try. Taken 2 held onto its earnings crown by virtue of an es …

Every major character here is, at best, a crook, and several are flat-out killers. As such, this film doesn’t really have good guys—the most sympathetic folks here are simply bad’uns with a sense of humor.