Contributor: Paul Asay

What has lots of teeth, tons of tentacles and can still mimick humans almost perfectly? Trust us: You don’t want to know.

Jack Black, Steve Martin and Owen Wilson are out to see who’s North America’s best birder. Will this film take flight? Or will it run … afowl?

Et tu, Hugh? Real Steel, the Hugh Jackman-fronted action flick, KO’d George Clooney’s The Ides of March to win the box office trophy this week. And it wasn’t all that close. Steel—based partly on Mattel’s game Rock ‘Em Sock ‘Em Robots—thumbed its way t …

“You’re my hero.” This is one of my favorite throwaway phrases. I say this to my daughter when she unloads the dishwasher. I say it to my co-workers when they remind me of a meeting. I say it to my editor every day, without fail, in the hopes he won’t …

George Clooney takes on America’s political system with a riveting but ribald political thriller. Note: The nod to Shakespeare is hard-earned here.

Steve Jobs, founder of Apple and one of our era’s most influential entrepreneurs, died yesterday at the age of 56 after a long struggle with pancreatic cancer. I don’t think it’s really my place to recount Jobs’ life here. There are plenty of journalis …

Here’s a Will Ferrell film that practices and practices—until it gets one feature of basketball absolutely perfect: the flagrant foul.

Aak! Aaa-aa-aak! Klaa-aaak! For those of you who don’t speak dolphin, those series of squeaks and clicks translate to, “Take that, you bipedal excuses for thespians! Dolphins rule!” And so they do—for a weekend, at least. Dolphin Tale, the heartwarming …

If you have to think about it, it’s too high. But that’s just us. This movie hardly agrees.

Will’s house and family seem just too good to be true. This movie, on the other hand …

Inspiration comes in many forms. We may be inspired by an act of heroism or derring-do. We may find encouragement within the depths of trial. And sometimes, we may see an act of heroism in the depths of trial and tell ourselves, “Is that dude crazy?! N …

Plastic. Metal. Five-gallon. Ten-gallon. Oops, this Jack Nicholson-Morgan Freeman movie is about the OTHER kind of bucket list.

It’s your typical love story. Boy meets girl. Boy kidnaps fallen star, who also happens to be a girl, to impress the first girl. Star falls in love with boy.

Sorry, Brad Pitt. Tough luck, Taylor Lautner. Better luck next time, you cute little dolphin with the missing tail. For the second straight week Disney’s The Lion King—a 17-year-old movie that got a 21st-century 3-D revamp—was king of the box office, t …

No one is actually abducted in Taylor Lautner’s Abduction. Yet the title still fits since this film takes two precious hours away from you.