Contributor: Paul Asay

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 …

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?

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

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 …