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There's enough action to enjoy it, but this new Star Trek installment continues to show unfulfilled promise and a lack of strong themes.

The fourth book in the Bloomfield series, Last Chance for Justice, captures small-town life through the eyes of a weary widow and her grown daughter.

As a worship leader for more than a decade now at the International House of Prayer in Kansas City, Missouri, all of Misty Edwards’ most popular tracks have now made their way to Only a Shadow.

Tom Cruise plays yet another action hero with panache, but the timing is awful for a film with so many gun-related fatalities early on.

I’ve found that most people who tell me that fiction is a waste of time are folks who seem to hold to a kind of sola cerebra vision of the Christian life that just doesn’t square with the Bible.

Baz Luhrmann captures the opulent decor and backs it with a hip-hop soundtrack that should feel out of place but works surprisingly well.

When it’s time to settle down with a book, there’s nothing quite so satisfying as a good mystery novel.

Considering that To Be Loved is currently the #1 album on Billboard’s Top 200 list, there’s no question that Canadian crooner Michael Bublé’s smooth, Sinatra-esque vocals have a wide range of appeal.

First-time director Andres Muschietti is more intent on wringing tears than terror from the audience in this thriller.

While some comic book movies become lazy and predictable, genuine surprises and character development keep Iron Man 3 from growing stale.

Their relationship began when she walked into his classroom and continued—mostly via letters—for years.

Swallow the Ocean is just as format-fitting as those sold-out shows have become. You want something that sounds relatively younger and a little edgy?

In this broken city the lines between good men and bad are mighty blurry. The language and flesh, however, aren't blurred at all.

There are three ways to read the seven Chronicles of Narnia, but only one of them is best.

Director Jeff Nichols effectively blends genres, numerous subplots and character dynamics – and does so with emotional weight and power.

In the third installment of the “Daughters of Fortune” series, Susan May Warren does a splendid job of transporting the reader into the extravagance of the 1930s.

In a review in 2011, I wrote of I Am Empire’s debut release Kings that “for a band barely two years old, it promises much more good to come.”

Don't look for much in the food-for-thought department, but Gangster Squad keeps you interested in seeing how it'll play out.

A good story told by a skilled author can do a great deal of good. It can even lead us to God.