Contributor: Paul Asay

Forget Mad Max. Sayonara, William Wallace. Mel Gibson’s new role? A troubled executive who talks through a puppet. The Beaver (the name of the movie and the species of the puppet) isn’t due out ’til next year, so I don’t know too much about it. But I d …

It was a slow weekend at the local cineplex, with most folks apparently staying home to trim the tree rather than catch a film. Tangled turned the tables on last week’s champ, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 1, and pushed its total take to n …

Will Smith is the last man on Earth in yet another take on Richard Matheson’s 1954 sci-fi story. (Vincent Price and Charlton Heston have already been there, done that.)

I’m reading The Voyage of the Dawn Treader out loud to my daughter. Granted, she’s nearly 17 and could read the book on her own. But she’s nice enough to humor me. She knows that C.S. Lewis’ Chronicles of Narnia stories are among my all-time faves, and …

Mickey Mouse morphs from corporate spokesman into a feisty—and not altogether good—protagonist trying to rescue a magical land from evil.

Harry Potter’s latest adventure has topped the box office for at least one more week. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 1 narrowly bested Disney’s new computer-animated charmer, Tangled, at theaters this weekend, earning $50.3 million to Tangl …

The bonus track on the 16-year-old Canadian phenom’s My World Acoustic release trades in sugary romantic sentimentality for surprisingly earnest spiritual sentimentality.

Thanksgiving is one of my favorite holidays—a time filled with family, food and (of course) football. It’s a time of reflection and, well, thanksgiving, as we think of all the blessings that have been bestowed upon us. But as we all gobble up our mashe …

Jake Gyllenhaal and Anne Hathaway imagine an immoral morality tale for folks with no self-control. The subject? That little blue pill you’ve suffered through so may commercials for on TV.

The Hallows were far from deadly for Harry Potter and his mates. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 1 worked its magic on the box office and conjured more than $125 million this weekend, according to boxofficemojo.com. It’s technically the bigg …

We Americans love our hot dogs. We love our apple pie. We love our baseball. And we especially love our murder mysteries. I was thinking a bit about this cultural trait while reviewing CSI: Crime Scene Investigation. Without much critical love, CSI has …

You can’t keep a good supervillain down. DreamWorks’ animated Megamind stopped a runaway train in its tracks to claim the box office crown for the second week in a row, sequestering more than $30 million en route, according to boxofficemojo.com. Unstop …

They’ve come for our brains. No, not the aliens. The makers of this movie.

Every Monday, we typically talk on the blog about the biggest movies of the weekend: What everyone saw, what everyone didn’t see and what, if anything, it might mean. The posts themselves are not too provocative, typically … but the last couple instiga …

In a triumph for bald, blue, misunderstood villains everywhere, DreamWorks’ Megamind grabbed megamillions—an estimated $47.7 million—to steal the box office crown, according to boxofficemojo.com. Another newcomer, the R-rated Due Date, popped into seco …