Contributor: Paul Asay

Can faith stand up to the unthinkable? Does God care what happens when the wolves are at our door? The Grey says no. But is there more to it than that?

The movie’s about a girl named Plum. But the only fruit we can think about right now is a tomato. A rotten one. Being thrown at the screen.

The year’s Academy Awards nominations were released this morning. Let me be honest: Since I’ve been doing this gig, I don’t think I’ve seen a more positive collection of films in the running for Best Picture. First, let’s run down the nine nominees for …

The setup of the Underworld franchise sounds like something that a couple of 12-year-old boys would plot during a lazy Saturday afternoon. “So what if, like, vampires and werewolves hated each other?” one might say. “Yeah, and they, like, had a secret …

Twelve thousand years ago, D’Leh ekes out a living by the hair of his wild and woolly mammoths while still managing to get the girl and save the world.

Demi Lovato has shown us that she knows how to stay strong. Now she shows us that she can love strong too.

You’ve heard about it. We’ve talked about it. Some folks begged ABC never to air it. But air it did. On Wednesday, Modern Family presented to the world “Little Bo Bleep,” an episode in which a cute little girl utters the infamous f-word. The girl in qu …

Vampires and werewolves have been at each other’s throats for centuries. But now there’s a new enemy in the mix. And that enemy is … us?

Tebow time is over, at least for now. Last weekend, the Denver Broncos suffered a humiliating 45-10 defeat at the hands of the New England Patriots—a score that could’ve been far worse had Tom Brady felt a bit more vindictive. So while we still have a …

There was a full-fledged exorcism at the box office this weekend. Just seven days after The Devil Inside topped the charts with a shocking $34.5 million weekend, the schlocky screamfest took a diabolical 77% dive. Devil earned just an estimated $7.9 mi …

“If you can’t say anything nice …” That’s what our mothers always told us. If you can’t say anything nice, don’t say anything at all. It’s a pretty good rule … unless you’re an entertainment critic. Critics like me are paid to be, well, critical. Not v …

How does one explain the strange, disturbing weekend success of The Devil Inside? How does one rationalize how a dumb, throwaway film like this can earn an estimated $34.5 million—$20 million more than what most prognosticators had predicted—to win the …

With sequels and retreads dominating the box office in 2011, it’s somehow fitting that a squadron of holdovers would ring in the new year. Granted, Hollywood seemed disinclined to release anything new for the New Year holiday: The only new release anyw …

To paraphrase Steve Martin circa the 1970s, it’s been a wild and crazy year. We’ve been through the Arab Spring and the Occupy Wall Street movement. We’ve watched politicians bicker and our 401(k)’s sag. We marked the passing of a notorious North Korea …

My iPad cracked the other day. My wife and I had just gotten back from my parents’ house, and we were laden with food and packages and old magazines and newspaper clippings … and somewhere in the midst of all that stuff, the iPad was watching, waiting. …