Contributor: Paul Asay

Personally, I don’t see Little Fockers as an ideal way to celebrate Christmas, but loads of people apparently disagreed. The Ben Stiller/Robert De Niro-fronted comedy took the weekend’s box office title, collecting an estimated $34 million en route. Tr …

Back when I was a kid, I’d write a letter to Santa nearly every year. I didn’t bother with sending it like most kids did. I’d just leave the note by his milk and cookies, figuring he probably had some spare loot under the sleigh seats. And I still reme …

It takes some serious grit to turn a John Wayne classic into a darkly ambiguous comedy. The results are both mesmerizing and maddening.

There are lots of folks who’d say there really is no such thing as an original story, and that all of our books and movies essentially rework tales we’ve been telling around the campfire since obsidian was considered cutting-edge technology. But still, …

Suffering mightily from the loss of their young son, Howie and Becca struggle through grief and anger, desperately searching for a reason to pull themselves out of the black hole he left behind.

It’s no surprise that the moral of the story that takes its cues from Hugh Hefner is about as mixed up as the drinks he serves at his infamous Playboy Mansion parties.

Bowersox, the little singer with the big voice, had to settle for runner-up status on 2010’s American Idol. Her subsequent album isn’t a full-on winner either.

The cinematic waters proved to be a little choppy for The Chronicles of Narnia: The Voyage of the Dawn Treader this weekend. While King Caspian’s noble flagship did land in first place at the box office, it did so with an underwhelming $24.5 million—$4 …

Micky Ward gets hit a lot. The blows come from the left, the right, up high, below the belt. And once he absorbs all that punishment from his family, he still has to get inside the boxing ring.

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 …