Contributor: Paul Asay

It’s mid-November, and most of the broadcast television networks’ new scripted shows have seen the light of day (though Fox is holding its last big new entry, I Hate My Teenage Daughter, for Nov. 30). With that in mind, let’s take a quick look back and …

In these uncertain and disturbing economic times, there’s at least one thing that’s looking a bit (ahem) bullish: Immortals. The R-rated fantasy—loosely pegged to the legend of the sword-slinging, minotaur-fighting Greek hero Theseus—triumphed at the b …

I can be pretty cynical sometimes. My brain is wired to quibble. My personal and professional background make me prone to doubt. I am Thomas or worse, and it’s hard for me to trust sometimes. It’s hard for me to believe. But every now and then, somethi …

We were supposed to witness a heist this weekend—as in Tower Heist, a comedy caper that was intended to yoke economic angst to a bevy of medium-wattage stars (Ben Stiller, Eddie Murphy, Alan Alda) and shoot straight to the top of the box office. But it …

The Light vs. the Dark. Choices that change the world. Walden Media has made a movie based on Susan Cooper’s ‘The Dark Is Rising’ sequence.

There are no trees in ‘Arctic Tale.’ No shrubs. Precious little vegetation at all. But this National Geographic follow-up to ‘March of the Penguins’ may be the greenest film of the year.

Harold and Kumar are out to save Christmas in their third cinematic romp. Well, actually, that’s not it at all. And to prove it, they shoot Santa right out of the sky.

Quick: what’s the most popular reality television show this autumn? Dancing With the Stars? The X-Factor? Survivor? Sorry, but no. Sure, they’re popular. They’re reportedly real. They’re undeniably on television. But to find the most popular reality pr …

On Friday, Bob Hoose posted about why our society has a collective yen for horror flicks. It is a curious phenomenon: None of us love to hear something go bump in the night—particularly if it’s an unexplained bump in your hall closet. But things that g …

Leave it to a swashbuckling, animated cat to do a little trick-or-treating this Halloween weekend. Puss in Boots, a spinoff from DreamWorks’ Shrek series, flouted conventional wisdom by knocking off the more Halloween-centric Paranormal Activity 3 and …

Onscreen kisses between Scarlett Johansson and Penélope Cruz have snagged most of the critical attention directed at Woody Allen’s latest.

On the face of things, is Justin Timberlake’s clock-centric sci-fi film worth giving a hand? Or should we sound the alarm? Read on to see where we wound up.

For weeks, the box office has felt fairly … dispirited. Oh, sure, we’ve dutifully reported the weekly winners in this space every Monday, but let’s face facts: Some of these high-profile films were making less than Lady Gaga spends on fake bone protube …

About 4 million folks have picked up a shiny new iPhone 4S since its release a couple of weeks ago, and most of them knew exactly what they were getting: It’s a phone, a calendar, a GPS, a mini-computer, a … well, you get the idea. Everyone knows what …

Hollywood may get weak in the knees over 1980s remakes, but the movie-going public thinks they’re just plain weak. Or at least that’s my interpretation of this weekend’s box-office derby, which saw last week’s champ Real Steel claim the title yet again …