Contributor: Paul Asay

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 …

Or should it be My Idiot Sisters? Maybe we should just stick with Another Idiot Movie.

Pretty cinematography. Pretty Zoe Saldana. Pretty much nonstop violence. Colombiana is as subtle and thought-provoking as a blow to the head.

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 …

Super-celebrities and ribald rappers Jay-Z and Kanye West have formed a supergroup (sometimes called The Throne) designed to utilize their collective and considerable talents to … create this horribly depressing album.

I never really wanted granite countertops before television. I was just dandy with our tile countertops. Have been for years. They support pots and pans. They repel spilled apricot juice. They don’t crack under heat. I mean, what else do we really requ …

You’d think the shootout would’ve been a forgone conclusion. Cowboys & Aliens had all the star power, all the firepower and some serious buzz. It had James Bond, Indiana Jones and a load of nasty aliens. Who would’ve thought it could’ve been challe …

What’s the saddest movie ever? Bambi? Old Yeller? Transformers: Dark of the Moon? Pish. Don’t make the science guy over there in the corner laugh. Oh, sure, those movies might be sad. They might even make some folks shed a tear or two. But if you want …