Contributor: Paul Asay

Sure, it has some charged characters and occasionally electric storytelling. But the content can be stormy indeed.

Judas and the Black Messiah is, on one level, a historical drama. On another, it’s a movie very much of the moment.

When we’re at a loss for words, entertainment helps us find the pictures—the communication tools we’re looking for.

Just as you would be with the Equalizer herself, this is a show to approach with caution.

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.