Contributor: Paul Asay

What do 16-year-old girls do for fun these days? Hang with their friends? Go to movies with guys? Text? Not Hanna. She knows nothing but killing.

If you are what you eat, I am the most boring person alive. At least at lunchtime. My typical noonday meal consists of a sandwich, a banana and a handful of baby carrots—simple, nutritious fare that I eat, in part, to make me feel better about the chee …

The animated Easter movie Hop bounded to first place at the box office this weekend, stuffing $38.1 million into its multi-hued basket. The opening had its makers over at Universal Pictures jumping for joy: The holiday flick may not have delved into th …

The latest honeyed hit from this Oklahoma country crooner is making a big buzz on the mainstream music charts. So we’re asking, Is it sticky or sweet?

It’s Friday, Friday, had to write a blog on Friday. So what better person to write about today than Rebecca Black? For those who haven’t heard of the 13-year-old singer, let me fill you in. On a whim last year, Rebecca and her family ponied up $2,000 a …

Jake Gyllenhaal’s unusual, time-bending task of sleuthing out a mass-murder mystery keeps blowing up in his face … literally.

I just wrote a story about the intersection between faith and film (look for it April 4), in which I opined that Hollywood is far from the irreligious entity Christians sometimes accuse it of being. We’ve seen a barrage of movies lately that take faith …

Leave it to a wimpy kid to win a weak weekend. Diary of a Wimpy Kid: Rodrick Rules floored Zack Snyder’s newest stylized rumble Sucker Punch to claim the box office belt this week. Perhaps Wimpy took some tips from the NCAA tourney’s VCU this weekend, …

Last night, my wife, daughter and I started watching Cleopatra, the lavish 1963 epic starring Elizabeth Taylor, Richard Burton and Rex Harrison. It was our curious little way to mark the passing of the film’s unforgettable star: Taylor died March 23 at …

See ya, Skins. It’s been, um, interesting. On March 21, MTV bid farewell to this British import (at least for the season, and likely forever), bringing to a close one of the strangest, wackiest television sagas this side of V. And we’re just talking ab …

It was a mind-blowing weekend for the film Limitless, which edged past modest predictions to pocket $19 million and become the most-watched movie of the weekend. The rest of the box office, though, was a bit limited. Holdovers Rango and Battle Los Ange …

Going against character, Matthew McConaughey keeps his shirt on … longer than usual, we’ll say. Too bad his movie couldn’t cover up its problematic elements quite as well.

So, the other night, my 17-year-old daughter and I were channel surfing, looking for a “documentary” to laugh at (like Extraterrestrial Major Leaguers: The Real Story of the 1927 Yankees), when we landed on Auction Kings, a program on the Discovery Cha …

City of Angels? More like City of Extraterrestrials. Late last year, a horde of space-surfing aliens swooped into Los Angeles and showed us humans what’s what in the film Skyline. It made a meager $21 million in North America. Well, second time’s a cha …

Rebecca Black hoped her song, “Friday,” and its accompanying YouTube video, might be seen by a handful of her friends. Seventy million (and counting!) views later, the 13-year-old girl is the talk of the music industry—but not in a nice way.