Contributor: Paul Asay

A few days ago, Plugged In published a story of mine (“To Worship the Web”) that asked the question, “Is the Internet God?” Now obviously, being a Christian site and all, I don’t imagine too many folks were biting their nails over how we’d answer. The …

Make way for the king. The Lion King, that is. In a cinematic landscape pocked with violent newcomers and tired holdovers, Disney’s classic story of a pad-footed prince—this time told in 3-D—roared to the top of the heap this week with a $29.3 million …

Putting on the clothes of a throwback thriller, Drive hums along the road just fine … until the bullets start to fly. From then on, it serves up vicious violence like so much rabid roadkill.

TLC’s Kate Plus 8 aired its last episode Monday, bringing to a close one of the strangest, most meteoric chapters in reality television. For those of you who were too busy raising your own families to pay much mind to this weird little pop saga, a brie …

The local cineplex was a sick, sick place this weekend. Contagion, a film that some have surely been waiting for with feverish expectation, inspired moviegoers to cough up $23.1 million and took down The Help with nary a sniffle. Nothing like the threa …

It’s not the years, honey. It’s the mileage. And, for a movie that turned the big 3-0 this year, Raiders of the Lost Ark still holds up pretty well. In fact, it holds up so well that it’s tempting to forget how horrifying it was at the time. Or, at lea …

Help—we need a movie Help—not just any movie Help—we’re going to see (The) Help! This was the refrain of American moviegoers on the way to the movie theater this weekend. For the third straight week, the sentimental Civil Rights tale The Help reigned s …

In 1972, three astronauts undertook a secret mission to the moon—a mission from which they never returned. Kinda weird, isn’t it, how the film from their cameras somehow made it back?

In two weeks, CBS’ Survivor—granddaddy of American reality television—will return to the airwaves for a 236th straight season. (Actually, it’s only been on the air since 2000; it just seems longer.) Once again, millions will watch a gaggle of regular o …

The box office needed a little help this weekend, what with kids going back to school and Hurricane Irene causing all sorts of havoc on the East Coast. And, as it turns out, that’s exactly what it got. Or, should we say, a little more Help. The Help, a …

Steve Jobs, the computer visionary who helped create Apple, then was fired from Apple, then came back to Apple to take the business to unprecedented heights, is stepping down from his post as the company’s CEO. Speculation is that Jobs’ health forced h …

Pretty cinematography. Pretty Zoe Saldana. Pretty much nonstop violence. Colombiana is as subtle and thought-provoking as a blow to the head.

Or should it be My Idiot Sisters? Maybe we should just stick with Another Idiot Movie.

The calendar may say we have a month of the season left to enjoy. But as far as Hollywood is concerned, summer’s over. Audiences have quaffed the big blockbusters like so much iced tea and studios are pushing their bargain-basement remainders to the th …

This is a redemption story of sorts—one in which our hero only becomes a hero in the end, when he realizes that his life isn’t really his. But what’s his path to that point? And should you trade two of your hours for his one day?