Contributor: Paul Asay

Chuck, Bruce, Sly, Ah-nold, Van Damme and Dolph. Fans of the franchise insist there’s nothing more than that to say. We are not fans.

Timothy Green hides a secret under his socks. And the movie has a secret too. Promise not to tell? The Odd Life of Timothy Green is made for kids, but it’s meant for parents.

“The bad news is that the Olympics are over,” fellow Plugged In critic Adam Holz proclaimed yesterday. “On the up side, Shark Week is here!” And really, the two television spectacles (the Olympics a sporting staple for NBC, Shark Week an annual obsessi …

After three weeks at the top of the box office, Batman finally met his match: A chemically enhanced killer with a distaste for authority. No, no. We’re not talking about Bane, the big meanie from The Dark Knight Rises. We’re talking about Bourne. Or, a …

Will Ferrell and Zach Galifianakis want your support and your vote. To get them they’re promising a sex joke in every pot, a demeaning curse in every garage.

Daniel Day-Lewis, as Daniel Plainview, will do anything for oil—that dark, murky, powerful substance that perhaps even courses through his own blighted veins.

It’s said that the rich get richer. And while that may not always be true—the rich could hypothetically blow their richness during an ill-advised weekend trip to Vegas—it seems to be the case with Gotham’s richest billionaire playboy. The Dark Knight R …

My family’s been in the throes of Olympics fever the last few nights. We saw that weird baby rise up during the opening ceremonies, watched poor Jordyn Wieber break down after failing to qualify for the women’s gymnastics all-around, cheered my home st …

It’s been more than a week since the tragedy in Aurora, Colo., turned the movie industry upside-down. But while we’ll be likely discussing the horror and its aftermath for months or  years to come, that didn’t keep folks away from the movies this weeke …

Ben Stiller and his band of comedic cohorts patrol their neighborhood on the lookout for any bad behavior. Maybe they should’ve just watched themselves in this movie.

As promised, here’s a quick wrap of the weekend’s top money-earners. No bad puns this time around, though. 1. The Dark Knight Rises, $160.9 million (third-highest opening weekend of all time, behind The Avengers and Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows …

Out of respect for the people killed or injured during the theater shooting in Aurora, Colo., July 20, Warner Bros. (the company behind The Dark Knight Rises) and several other studios withheld box-office estimates this weekend. We’ll post figures when …

So Indy’s ‘Last Crusade’ really wasn’t. Nearly three decades after ‘Raiders of the Lost Ark,’ he’s back battling baddies and trying to avoid snakes while hunting for lost treasure.

Early this morning, a shooter—allegedly 24-year-old James Holmes, according to police—opened fire in an Aurora, Colo., movie theater midnight screening of The Dark Knight Rises. News reports are still flying in, but officials estimate that 12 people we …

Christopher Nolan’s epic Batman trilogy ends by sinking its grappling hooks deep into matters of life and death and rebirth.