Contributor: Paul Asay

It seems that, even during the Super Bowl, moms and dads can’t watch uncritically—or without an eye toward how the content is impacting their children.

This film seems uncertain whether it most wants to give us a trippy fantasy or a gritty, hard morality tale.

Below Zero is a tense, bloody and wildly profane thriller that will undoubtedly keep many viewers on the edge of their seats.

If Palmer could’ve kept its nose cleaner, it this would’ve been a harder movie to review. As it is, we can easily suggest a hard pass.

The Little Things needed to pay better attention to some big things.

Books and movies impact us differently. They scratch different sides of the brain. And each can move us, and change us, in different ways.

John’s wife killed her boss, they say. And they put her away for doing it, too. What’s a loving husband to do? Break her out of prison, of course.

WandaVision is more than an innocuous television distraction. You could read it as a commentary on television itself.

This Apple+ series from M. Night Shyamalan features spiritual and psychological twists and turns—and disturbing ones at that.

Our Friend is hard to watch. It deals with aspects of a dying woman’s cancer with painful candor.

The Plugged In team takes a look at some apps that encourage exercise and video games that force you to flex those literal muscles a bit.

This CW show might be trying to make a deeper point than most stuff on the network. But the salacious stuff remains.

News of the World is playing in theaters now. And if it’s not exactly a film for the whole family, there is encouragement viewers can pluck from it.

One Night in Miami is an angry movie for an angry era. But it’s a thoughtful movie in an era that could use plenty of thought, too.

If screen-based stories like movies and television can make you think, music makes you feel.