Contributor: Paul Asay

Just in time for Father’s Day, Adam Sandler gives us a dad who makes Ivan the Terrible look great by comparison.

It was a zoo this weekend at the local cineplex. And I’m not lion. Madagascar 3: Europe’s Most Wanted won the Friday-Sunday box office tourney by a giraffe-sized neck, hoofing its way to an estimated $60.4 million take—making its makers at DreamWorks a …

I’ve been on vacation the last couple of weeks in Orlando—searching for alligators and playing cards and spending altogether too much time waiting in line for Space Mountain. But between all that line-standing and ride-riding at Disneyworld, the fam an …

Who says we’ve outgrown fairy tales? Sure, our 21st-century culture may be a little more cynical and self-aware. Maybe some of us stifle eye-rolls when it comes to cute, animated forest creatures cleaning out cottages. But audiences once again proved t …

Three decades ago, Richard Nixon went on trial: There was no judge, no jury—just glib British celebrity David Frost peppering the former president with questions. Some 45 million Americans watched on TV.

This star-studded, deeply religious film tells us the story of the Cristeros, an army of rebels that violently pushed against Mexico’s anti-Catholic policies of the 1920s. It asks an important question: Can violence serve the Prince of Peace?

I’m officially a twit. That’s what you call folks who use Twitter, right? I’m still new to this thing, so I’m not so sure of all the terminology. I never thought I would join Twitter. I never really saw the point, and anyone who’s read one of my movie …

English teachers across the country are going to want to show their students this updated literary fave. But star Angelina Jolie says she was ‘shocked’ when she saw the final product.

Two young lovers leave their homes and families and run off together. Problematic? Did we mention that they’re 12?

Ever wonder why there seem to be so many celebrities out there these days? Why every time you go to the supermarket you see about two-dozen different faces plastered across the tabloids? Some might say that more celebrities are just an upshot to our ce …

Davy Jones, meet Battleship. OK, so Universal Pictures’ titanic new release didn’t exactly burble to the box office’s briny depths this weekend: It only felt like it. Battleship fished an estimated $25.3 million from weekend moviegoers and floated to a …

Yesterday, Time’s movie critic Richard Corliss released what he considers to be “The 10 Greatest Movies of the Millennium (Thus Far).” The Artist launched the list at No. 10. Corliss named Pixar’s WALL-E as the best of the best. I love lists like these …

A whole lotta red pegs get stuck into battleships here. And while you’ve seen this kind of thing B-4, it’s still worth a review to C if this film’s stuck in row A or row F.

Reading can change our lives—quite literally, according to a new study. Researchers say that literary characters can have a sizable impact on how we think and act. Now, that doesn’t mean that Harry Potter readers are going to start shopping for cauldro …

A few weeks ago, Forbes magazine declared that Tony Stark—a.k.a. Iron Man—was worth a whopping $9.3 billion, making him the world’s fifth richest fictional character (one slot behind The Beverly Hillbilly’s Jed Clampett). If real-world dollars count on …