Contributor: Paul Asay

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 …

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.