Contributor: Paul Asay

LISTEN TO THE PLUGGED IN SHOW, EPISODE 194 Taylor Swift is perhaps music’s most influential artist. She’s connected (often literally through social media) with fans in unprecedented ways. She changes musical genres more often than some people change cl …

Winning Time focuses on basketball’s most celebrated franchise—but the show itself is not worth celebrating.

Barbie continues to show remarkable staying power, becoming the first movie directed by a woman to cross the $1 billion mark.

FX’s half-hour comedy Breeders offers a darkly whimsical portrait of parenthood full of wry, bleak and profane realism.

Good Omens is thought by many to be a good show. But spiritually, this Prime Video series seems like it needs to be carted away in its own handbasket.

Just as Alice Hart’s world is one of pain and secrets, so this show is filled with its own hidden dangers.

We talk with the creator of the stage-to-screen production of The Hiding Place and talk about a theater-themed comedy.

After turning the box office pink in its debut, Barbie proved to be still in fashion this weekend.

LISTEN TO THE PLUGGED IN SHOW, EPISODE 191 Say what you want about this curious age we live in—but at least it’s an age in which grown men can build Batman LEGO sets without (much) reprisal. Yes, it’s OK to be a “nerd” these days. Movie theaters are fi …

Netflix’s sharp, profane, unhinged comedy offers would-be viewers plenty of fine performances, absurd humor—and problems.

For families that have been shaken by Hollywood itself for some time, the strike might usher in a time of surprising stability.

The Flash, as a movie, is pretty good. But it’s one of DC’s most problematic films, too.

Certainly, it surprised no one to find Mission: Impossible—Dead Reckoning Part One at the top of the weekend’s box office.

Miracle Workers is, at times, heartwarming. But it tries a bit too hard to make comedy out of sex, violence, language and sadly, Christianity.

We talk to David Murrow, author of Drowning in Screen Time, about how to battle screen addiction. Then it’s Mission: Impossible.