Contributor: Paul Asay

If Roberta Flack’s silky song is on your lips right now, wipe it away quick. Because this Brad Pitt movie isn’t at all about love. It’s about death. And greed. And desperation. And politics?

I know John McAfee. You’ve heard of him, right? He’s the guy behind the once-ubiquitous (and still popular) McAfee antivirus software. He’s the guy who moved to Belize and was then accused of murdering his neighbor Gregory Faull and is now on the run f …

This past weekend was a time of giving thanks for family, for friends and for all the many blessings we’ve been graced with. And apparently lots of folks were also grateful that Bella, Edward and Jacob are still whooping it up at the local movie theate …

Pi and Richard Parker are lost at sea. And while their story is both beautiful and inspiring, its message is, in some ways, as unmoored as they are. (Did we mention that Richard Parker is a Bengal tiger?)

He has the tux,  his specially imprinted Walther PPK/S, his Aston Martin. What does 007 not have in Skyfall? The No. 1 slot in this weekend’s box office derby. James Bond was no match for a hoard of warring sparkly vampires. But then again, who thought …

Ariel Winter wants to be an adult. The 14-year-old actress best known as Alex in Modern Family is asking for legal emancipation from her mother, Chris Workman. She alleges that her mother has physically and emotionally abused her for years. Workman arg …

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 …

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.

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.

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.