Contributor: Paul Asay

Will Ferrell stars in this Spanish-speaking send up of cheesy telenovas and Mexican Westerns. Is it a clever comedy? A mangled racial assault? Or something else entirely?

I just finished watching “Kony 2012,” a documentary some are calling the most watched Internet video of all time. As I write this, the official video on YouTube has received nearly 80 million hits. But the film was surprisingly hard to find, and who kn …

I like the picture we’re running today for our Movie Monday blog—the Lorax staring at a tree stump, hands turned upward in a gesture of remorse, maybe even apology. It feels almost metaphorical for this weekend’s box-office tourney, actually. The Lorax …

I was introduced to Demi Lovato when I watched Camp Rock, a light, throwaway Disney confection that was one of my first assignments here at Plugged In. I don’t remember much about the show itself—not the plot, not the music, barely the setting. But I d …

Could Eddie Murphy actually make this movie’s title a reality? No. Would it have made the movie better if he had? Quite possibly.

New York City councilman Peter Vallone is calling on Christians to boycott the new ABC show GCB. He says the title alone (the letters stand for Good Christian B–ches, and the program is still being released under the original name in Australia and New …

UPDATED REVIEW: A game about a game that looks so real you can’t believe it’s just a game.

Money doesn’t grow on trees, they say—a patent untruth, really. After all, money is still technically made of paper, which does come from trees. Which leaves us with a salient environmental question this morning: Just how many truffula trees would need …

Thomas wants to throw a “game-changing” birthday party. He succeeds. And he utterly fails.

Verna’s a hoarder, and she knows it. Her house is stacked, floor to ceiling, with 16 years worth of stuff. She collects everything, it seems—broken furniture, empty plastic bottles, yarn. Underneath, mice and rats live and die, unnoticed. Verna abandon …

Media mogul Harvey Weinstein had a good night on Sunday. The Weinstein Company’s The Artist won five Academy Awards, including Best Picture. Its film The Iron Lady propelled Meryl Streep to her third Oscar. The Weinstein Company even produced the docum …

Ah, the irony. Last night, the entertainment industry feted itself and its biggest, brightest stars at the 84th Academy Awards ceremony. But what was the weekend’s biggest movie? A low-budget, high-body-count, outsider flick that features no stars at a …

This Sunday, the entertainment industry will gather and congratulate themselves on another year well done. Some will go home with shiny statues. Others will leave with some nice parting gifts (Oscar swag bags are valued at around $75,000 this year). An …

This fictional story featuring active duty Navy SEALs tells us what heroes are made of and shows us—in gory, gruesome detail—the cost.

Alas. My rented storage unit will never become a celebrity. It’s not just that A&E’s ludicrously popular Storage Wars is based in California and I’m in Colorado. If that was the only barrier, I could cling to the hope that A&E would create a sp …