Contributor: Paul Asay

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 …

One go-around with the four dysfunctional couples in Why Did I Get Married? apparently wasn’t enough. And so Tyler Perry is back for seconds. Will these couples come up with a suitable answer for their titular question this time?

I think most Americans think of television as intellectual comfort food. Generally, we don’t seem to gravitate toward programs because they’re wildly creative and different. We tend to like shows that are reliably the same each and every week. Which ma …

American commandos couldn’t take it down. Bounty hunters failed to haul it off. Even wimpy kids fell short. No, Tim Burton’s mighty Alice in Wonderland, after dominating the box office for the last three weeks, was finally taken down by a horde of Viki …

Justin Bieber and Sean Kingston vie for the attention of the same girl in a song and video that unintentionally showcase just how big the gap between 20-year-old Kingston and 16-year-old Bieber actually is … or at least should be.

Old Yeller? Black Beauty? Flipper? There’s a cool new pet in theaters now … and this one eats the rest of them for lunch. Maybe literally.

We humans are strange, mixed-up things. We are God’s creations, carrying God’s likeness and love—yet we are fallen creatures, torn by sin and selfishness and decay. We seem both animal and angel, and often we’re unable to truly grasp the division withi …