Contributor: Paul Asay

Earlier this week, the Supreme Court agreed to hear arguments as to whether California can ban the sale of violent video games to children under the age of 18. I’ll be interested to hear what it decides. California actually passed the bill five years a …

Looks like Jennifer Lopez could use a backup plan of her own. J. Lo’s new romantic comedy, The Back-up Plan, couldn’t topple DreamWorks’ charming springtime smash How to Train Your Dragon this weekend: Plan raked in an estimated $12.3 million, about $2 …

All the lonely ghosts, where do they all come from? Where do they all belong? ‘Ghost Town’ won’t answer those questions, but it does use a fantastical framework to shine a light on loneliness.

Jennifer Lopez wants kids in the worst way. So she decides to have them … just a few minutes before she meets Stan.

Imagine! A sports movie spoof that fumbles on every play in every way—and punctures the ball in the process. Does a PG-13 rating counts for anything these days?

The latest hit song from the bizarro mind of Lady Gaga is all about passion, cheating, guilt—and Nazi soldiers in fishnet stockings.

We just knew a certain unmentionable film was going to rule the box office come Monday. We just assumed that Kick-A– and its band of R-rated superheroes was going to charge into theaters and win the weekend. I mean, really: Who wants to tangle with a …

Edward Norton takes on crooked cops in this gritty (and by that we mean obscene) NYC morality play.

Tonight, the Peacock Network will air Secrets of the Mountain—maybe the safest and riskiest show we’ve seen in a while. Television programming doesn’t get much safer. Secrets (which will be released on DVD in Walmart stores on Saturday) is a G-rated af …

If we can’t even publish the movie’s name without censoring it, you probably don’t have to have a supersense to figure out what we think of it.

I wanted to be a superhero. No, really. When I was about 7, it was my career ambition. While other kids were playing baseball or other such nonsense, I would wear a cape, fling webs (my mother’s hair net) at evildoers (stuffed animals) and come up with …

Sam Fisher is the gaming world’s answer to TV’s Jack Bauer—trained to sneak in the shadows, kill on sight and save America. Oh, yeah, and swear. Jack’s a Sunday school teacher compared to Sam when it comes to swearing.

A couple of comedians trounced an army of gods and monsters to triumph at the box office this weekend. Date Night, starring Steve Carell and Tina Fey, made $27.1 million to nudge past rapidly falling Clash of the Titans ($26.9 million). How to Train Yo …

Kids. When I’m not yellin’ at ’em to get off my lawn (waving my cane in their general direction), I’m tellin’ ’em to not slouch so much, or to get those plumb earbuds out of their ears or put on a belt so their pants don’t fall to their knees. Why can’ …

Forget the dragon. The monster this weekend was the Kraken and Clash of the Titans, which hacked its way to $61.4 million—much of it coming from extra-pricey 3-D tickets. The mythology-soaked CGI spectacle pocketed twice as much as its nearest competit …