Contributor: Paul Asay

Is there a better way to work off that tryptophan trough than a good family-friendly movie? Well, probably, but don’t tell studio execs that. The Thanksgiving weekend box office was deluged with quality PG-rated films this weekend—from The Muppets to H …

For a silent movie, this French salute to Hollywood’s transition to talkies in the late ’20s sure has some interesting things to say.

The words “Thanksgiving” and “health” don’t typically go hand in hand—not with all the stuffing and pumpkin pie and marshmallow-covered sweet potatoes making their rounds. But as it turns out, giving thanks is pretty healthy. At least that’s what the s …

You better watch out. You better not cry. Arthur Christmas is coming to town … and he’s checking his list three times.

It’s a new dawn at the multiplex. Breaking Dawn, that is. The Twilight Series: Breaking Dawn – Part 1 sucked scads of cash out of the box office this weekend, with moviegoers forking over $139.5 million to see Edward and Bella get married, have sex and …

It’s mid-November, and most of the broadcast television networks’ new scripted shows have seen the light of day (though Fox is holding its last big new entry, I Hate My Teenage Daughter, for Nov. 30). With that in mind, let’s take a quick look back and …

In these uncertain and disturbing economic times, there’s at least one thing that’s looking a bit (ahem) bullish: Immortals. The R-rated fantasy—loosely pegged to the legend of the sword-slinging, minotaur-fighting Greek hero Theseus—triumphed at the b …

I can be pretty cynical sometimes. My brain is wired to quibble. My personal and professional background make me prone to doubt. I am Thomas or worse, and it’s hard for me to trust sometimes. It’s hard for me to believe. But every now and then, somethi …

We were supposed to witness a heist this weekend—as in Tower Heist, a comedy caper that was intended to yoke economic angst to a bevy of medium-wattage stars (Ben Stiller, Eddie Murphy, Alan Alda) and shoot straight to the top of the box office. But it …

The Light vs. the Dark. Choices that change the world. Walden Media has made a movie based on Susan Cooper’s ‘The Dark Is Rising’ sequence.

There are no trees in ‘Arctic Tale.’ No shrubs. Precious little vegetation at all. But this National Geographic follow-up to ‘March of the Penguins’ may be the greenest film of the year.

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 …