Contributor: Paul Asay

A horse is a horse, of course, of course. Unless the horse is the famous Secretariat, perhaps the greatest racehorse ever. We know he wins in the end. Does his movie?

Longtime frienemies Katherine Heigl and Josh Duhamel suddenly find themselves with child when their best friends die in a car crash—leaving a 1-year-old girl to their charge.

Singer/songwriter/Twitterer extraordinaire John Mayer stopped tweeting back in February, leaving his 3 million-plus followers adrift and leaderless in a great digital wasteland. He never returned to the medium that helped make him one of pop culture’s …

Sony “likes” The Social Network—and a whole lot of other folks do, too. The movies most folks are calling “the Facebook film” topped the box office this week, snagging $23 million. The bevy of holdovers that followed weren’t within shouting distance of …

For nearly two months now, 33 Chilean miners have been living a half-mile underground, waiting for rescue. Experts say these miners will see the sun again—eventually. Until then, the miners are cobbling together a new reality down under—and that realit …

Kenny Chesney claims Ernest Hemingway’s life served as an inspiration of sorts for his 17th release. Before taking a swig of his Whiskey, though, it might be wise to recall exactly where that substance led Chesney’s titular muse.

Money really doesn’t sleep. Sometimes at 2 a.m., I think I hear the sound of laughter and music from my billfold, as my tiny collection of George Washingtons boogies down until dawn. If my money is lonely—as it often is—I’ll sometimes find it sitting o …

It’s a terrible tug-of-war in this movie based on Karen Kingsbury’s book: two sets of parents fighting over the fate of one 6-year-old boy.

In high school, Marni was bullied by the meanest of mean girls. Now she learns that her brother is marrying that monster. Can people change? Can we allow them to?

I don’t think jury duty would’ve ever made my bucket list. But if it did, for some reason, I can cross it off now. I spent the day at the local courthouse yesterday, one member of a six-person jury deciding whether a man was guilty of assault or not. T …

After a couple of zombie-like weekends at the box office, a trio of new movies brought some life back to the cineplex. Ben Affleck’s crime drama The Town nabbed box office honors this week, stealing $23.8 million. Easy A had to be content with a solid …

We can’t all be at our best all the time. I wish we could. But sometimes, we drag a little, let our focus sag a little, and we forget for a moment that everything we do in our lives is, in a way, a reflection of and an offering to God. I was dragging a …

Ben Affleck tells us that Charlestown, an enclave of Boston, is home to some of the country’s most hardened bank robbers. Who knew that some of ’em could be so likable?

Foster the People’s breakout hit sounds as bright and refreshing as a sunny spring morning. And then you listen to the words … and it’s a total eclipse.

All was deathly quiet at the cineplex. Wind whistled through the box office. Tumbleweeds slowly trundled through the concession stand, branches sweeping up long-forgotten puddles of faux butter as they rolled toward the exits. And then, from underneath …