Contributor: Paul Asay

Avatar ruled the box office for the second straight weekend, losing just 3 percent of its opening weekend tally to score $75 million. The film’s 10-day North American total now stands at around $212 mil. With a few more weekends like that, James Camero …

Hmmm. I see from this review that we have an occult-drenched villain, a scantily dressed heroine and enough violent content to fill the Thames. What does that add up to? The answer is elementary, my dear Watson!

I’ve always loved finding God in unexpected places. I believe signs of His work are all around us, if we take time to look—from the top of a hill to the edge of the ocean to the fabric of our cubicle walls. It’s one of the things I enjoy so much about …

James Cameron’s Avatar cruised to a strong start over the weekend, topping the box office with $73 million. Granted, the take was on the low end of the studio’s expectations, but considering much of the East Coast was hammered by a massive snowstorm, C …

The Princess and the Frog, an old-school animated offering from the folks at Disney, smooched the No. 1 slot at the box office this weekend, pushing The Blind Side to second place. Princess’ $25 million take was fit for—well, a princess. And there was …

The headline above was brought to you courtesy Fraser Brown, son of British Prime Minister Gordon Brown. Seems the younger Brown proffered those vowel-impoverished thoughts on his mother’s Twitter account when she left the room for a moment, sending th …

It’s about 78 degrees below zero where I live, which means it’s too cold to think, much less type. So I’m going to ask you to do the blog’s heavy lifting today while I drink a cup of hot chocolate. In the latest installment of my Not Just a Movie serie …

It was the same ol’, same ol’ at the box office this weekend, with The Blind Side trading places with The Twilight Saga: New Moon for slots No. 1 and 2, respectively. Brothers, the week’s biggest new release, slid into the No. 3 position with $9.7 mill …

Plugged In has passed the halfway point in my 584-part series on film and faith (well, it seemed that long while I wrote it), and this week’s installment is all about on-screen violence: what it is, what it does to us when we watch it and whether it’s …

We tried. We really tried to keep this blog an Adam Lambert-free zone in the wake of his American Music Awards appearance Nov. 22. But recently he said something perhaps as provocative as his awards performance. For those who missed the fracas, Lambert …

Tiana wants a restaurant. Prince Naveen wants to get married. But when they get mixed up in New Orleans-style Voodoo, both of their dreams seem to, um, croak in Disney’s return to classic-style animation.

Leave it to a vampire to drain us of our discretionary income. Recession? Pish. The Twilight Saga: New Moon powered to a staggering $140.7 million take at the box office this weekend, breaking all sorts of records and proving, yet again, that tween gir …

The Grammy-winning Zac Brown Band’s latest country hit delivers tear-jerking reflections from a father who laments the distance that separates him from his son.

Baltimore Ravens offensive lineman Michael Oher was a high school legend, college star and a 2009 No. 1 draft pick. But his life would never have played out that way had not one special family taken him under their wing.

The New Oxford American Dictionary, North America’s last word on words, recently named unfriend as its word of the year. It means, in dictionary parlance, “to remove someone from a social networking site.” But you already knew this. This annual announc …