Contributor: Paul Asay

Demi Lovato has shown us that she knows how to stay strong. Now she shows us that she can love strong too.

You’ve heard about it. We’ve talked about it. Some folks begged ABC never to air it. But air it did. On Wednesday, Modern Family presented to the world “Little Bo Bleep,” an episode in which a cute little girl utters the infamous f-word. The girl in qu …

Vampires and werewolves have been at each other’s throats for centuries. But now there’s a new enemy in the mix. And that enemy is … us?

Tebow time is over, at least for now. Last weekend, the Denver Broncos suffered a humiliating 45-10 defeat at the hands of the New England Patriots—a score that could’ve been far worse had Tom Brady felt a bit more vindictive. So while we still have a …

There was a full-fledged exorcism at the box office this weekend. Just seven days after The Devil Inside topped the charts with a shocking $34.5 million weekend, the schlocky screamfest took a diabolical 77% dive. Devil earned just an estimated $7.9 mi …

“If you can’t say anything nice …” That’s what our mothers always told us. If you can’t say anything nice, don’t say anything at all. It’s a pretty good rule … unless you’re an entertainment critic. Critics like me are paid to be, well, critical. Not v …

How does one explain the strange, disturbing weekend success of The Devil Inside? How does one rationalize how a dumb, throwaway film like this can earn an estimated $34.5 million—$20 million more than what most prognosticators had predicted—to win the …

With sequels and retreads dominating the box office in 2011, it’s somehow fitting that a squadron of holdovers would ring in the new year. Granted, Hollywood seemed disinclined to release anything new for the New Year holiday: The only new release anyw …

To paraphrase Steve Martin circa the 1970s, it’s been a wild and crazy year. We’ve been through the Arab Spring and the Occupy Wall Street movement. We’ve watched politicians bicker and our 401(k)’s sag. We marked the passing of a notorious North Korea …

My iPad cracked the other day. My wife and I had just gotten back from my parents’ house, and we were laden with food and packages and old magazines and newspaper clippings … and somewhere in the midst of all that stuff, the iPad was watching, waiting. …

An uneducated nobody winds up on India’s ‘Who Wants to Be a Millionaire’ and is a question away from a fortune. Is he brilliant? Did he cheat? Or is he … in love?

What did Santa Claus (or whatever treasured, commercialist holiday figure Scientologists eagerly await this time of year) bring Tom Cruise this Christmas? A box-office win for Mission Impossible – Ghost Protocol. Granted, the payoff wasn’t massive: an …

A couple of weeks ago, part of the Plugged In staff gathered around the microphone and talked about our favorite television Christmas specials for the Official Plugged In Podcast (it’s episode #127, if you’re interested). My personal fave: A Charlie Br …

Kim Jong Il, hereditary dictator of global wallflower North Korea, is gone now, allegedly after suffering a heart attack from overwork. While the world at large may not miss him, Hollywood will probably shed a tear or two at his passing—not because any …

Consider: The original Sherlock Holmes earned more than $62 million its opening weekend two years ago when it debuted on approximately 3,600 screens. The sequel, Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows, earned an estimated $40 million this weekend on 3,700 …