Contributor: Paul Asay

Inspiration comes in many forms. We may be inspired by an act of heroism or derring-do. We may find encouragement within the depths of trial. And sometimes, we may see an act of heroism in the depths of trial and tell ourselves, “Is that dude crazy?! N …

Plastic. Metal. Five-gallon. Ten-gallon. Oops, this Jack Nicholson-Morgan Freeman movie is about the OTHER kind of bucket list.

It’s your typical love story. Boy meets girl. Boy kidnaps fallen star, who also happens to be a girl, to impress the first girl. Star falls in love with boy.

Sorry, Brad Pitt. Tough luck, Taylor Lautner. Better luck next time, you cute little dolphin with the missing tail. For the second straight week Disney’s The Lion King—a 17-year-old movie that got a 21st-century 3-D revamp—was king of the box office, t …

No one is actually abducted in Taylor Lautner’s Abduction. Yet the title still fits since this film takes two precious hours away from you.

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 …