Contributor: Paul Asay

After gaining fame in a cult television hit from the 1960s, vampire Barnabas Collins has decided to inhabit the body of Johnny Depp in this Tim Burton comedy. Note that we said body, because this film has absolutely no soul.

I’m in the middle of reviewing the ABC show Scandal—a strange little drama that’s a little hard to box inside a recognizable genre (look for the full review tomorrow). It’s part episodic procedural, part serialized mystery. It’s got a little West Wing …

Well, we knew it was gonna be big. But this big? The Avengers, Marvel’s supersized superhero flick, didn’t just win the weekend box-office crown. It didn’t just make history. It pounded the record books like the Hulk tossed around poor little Loki. The …

For the last few weeks, we’ve been talking about seeing problematic or challenging movies. Not so much about how to decide whether you see them, but rather how to process them when you see them. Last week, I told you about some of the tools we use to h …

If two’s company and three’s a crowd, what’s four? Or six? In this case, it’s Marvel’s newest superhero movie.

It was supposed to be a busy weekend at the multiplex. With the spring movie season winding down and The Avengers just around the corner (May 4), four new films rushed to theaters this weekend to beat the summertime rush. None were expected to be Hunge …

Shortly after we started this series of blog posts on how to engage with problematic films, I came across a comment from Josh, one of our readers, essentially calling us out in the best possible way. Here’s what he wrote: The thing that get’s me in thi …

Tom and Violet want to get married. But then they have to move to Michigan for her job. So the wedding’s officially postponed. Um, why would that be again?

Katniss had a good run. After four weeks as box office champ, The Hunger Games was finally toppled by a couple of films about—well, couples. Think Like a Man featured four of ’em, in fact (plus a tag-along divorced guy)—perhaps figuring the only way to …

Whenever Christians start arguing about entertainment—why they see or don’t see certain things, Philippians 4:8 is sure to pop up before the conversation gets too old. It goes like this: “Finally brothers, whatever is true, whatever is noble, whatever …

Fully engaged father? Check. Importance of adoption? Check. The beauty of family? Check. Disneynature shows us that, sometimes, the animal kingdom can teach us a thing or two about how to raise a kid (table manners notwithstanding).

“Dick Clark died today” I said last night as my family put dinner together. “Who?” my daughter-in-law asked. Who? Who’s Dick Clark?! That was what I wanted to say, a little taken aback at the idea that anyone, anywhere would not know who Dick Clark is. …

From the very beginning, we knew The Hunger Games would be tough to take down in the box office arena. It scored the equivalent of an 11 in the hype-centric prelims, scoring magazine cover after cover and inflaming fans with a Twilight level of anticip …

The Bible never comes right out and says what to do with movies. Moses didn’t bring back a commandment that said, “Thou shalt not watch any R-rated film (unless thine film be titled Passion of the Christ).” Jesus never explicitly spoke about Hollywood. …

Whenever a bunch of college kids go to a cabin in the woods in films like The Cabin in the Woods, we have to wonder, why?! And when people say they hope to watch them do it, we wonder the same thing.