Paul Asay

The box office's record-breaking summer was powered by a few huge movies: Spider-Man: Brand New Day, The Odyssey, et cetera. But as we creep through October, it's a whole new box-office ball game. Four newcomers landed in the top five this weekend. Street... See more

For a lot of Christians, horror movies are a hard pass. First off, who wants to be scared? Who wants your kids to be scared? So many horror flicks lean into graphic and salacious gore. And supernatural horror films bring, shall we say, a legion of other p... See more

Snap. Just like that. Half of the cosmos’ lungs were stilled, half its hearts were stopped. In an instant, billions of lives became so much ash, carried aloft by a breeze or breath. For you are dust, and to dust you shall return. Thanos had won. It wasn’t... See more

Primetime takes us back a couple of decades to the heyday of To Catch a Predator, a controversial television sensation predicated on luring would-be predators into a televised sting. And the content in the film—in the form of sexual abuse, exposed genital... See more

A Different World (2026) Netflix’s ‘A Different World’ reboot gets some points for diversity and sweet themes, but the sentimentality of college years includes partying and sensuality. When the Hollingsworth kids played cops and robbers, it must’ve been b... See more