Contributor: Paul Asay

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?

So, would this count as a non-endorsement deal? Abercrombie & Fitch, the youth clothing marketeer, has apparently offered Mike “The Situation” Sorriento of MTV’s Jersey Shore a boatload of cash. And all The Situation (or any other Shore cast member …

What do you get when you combine the apocryphal Book of Enoch with an action-based video game? Do you need us to actually answer that question?

The true and tragic story of abducted journalist Daniel Pearl and the frantic quest to save his life.

You can’t keep a good ape down. That’s what movie prognosticators learned this weekend as Rise of the Planet of the Apes repeated as box office champ. The simian thriller peeled $27.5 million—50% less than last week, but still enough to best the rest, …

Don’t look now, but Apple—the quirky computer company of the 1980s, the one that always played nebbish outsider to Microsoft’s football jock in the 1990s—is now the most valuable company in the United States. As of Wednesday’s stock market close, Apple …

We know that entertainment can impact the way we think or feel about certain things. Movies can make us happy or sad or encourage us to buy lots and lots of action figures. Sometimes they can even affect how we look at and deal with the world around us …