Contributor: Paul Asay

So, would this count as a non-endorsement deal? Abercrombie & Fitch, the youth clothing marketeer, has apparently offered Mike “The Situation” Sorriento of MTV’s Jersey Shore a boatload of cash. And all The Situation (or any other Shore cast member …

What do you get when you combine the apocryphal Book of Enoch with an action-based video game? Do you need us to actually answer that question?

The true and tragic story of abducted journalist Daniel Pearl and the frantic quest to save his life.

You can’t keep a good ape down. That’s what movie prognosticators learned this weekend as Rise of the Planet of the Apes repeated as box office champ. The simian thriller peeled $27.5 million—50% less than last week, but still enough to best the rest, …

Don’t look now, but Apple—the quirky computer company of the 1980s, the one that always played nebbish outsider to Microsoft’s football jock in the 1990s—is now the most valuable company in the United States. As of Wednesday’s stock market close, Apple …

We know that entertainment can impact the way we think or feel about certain things. Movies can make us happy or sad or encourage us to buy lots and lots of action figures. Sometimes they can even affect how we look at and deal with the world around us …

Super-celebrities and ribald rappers Jay-Z and Kanye West have formed a supergroup (sometimes called The Throne) designed to utilize their collective and considerable talents to … create this horribly depressing album.

I never really wanted granite countertops before television. I was just dandy with our tile countertops. Have been for years. They support pots and pans. They repel spilled apricot juice. They don’t crack under heat. I mean, what else do we really requ …

You’d think the shootout would’ve been a forgone conclusion. Cowboys & Aliens had all the star power, all the firepower and some serious buzz. It had James Bond, Indiana Jones and a load of nasty aliens. Who would’ve thought it could’ve been challe …

What’s the saddest movie ever? Bambi? Old Yeller? Transformers: Dark of the Moon? Pish. Don’t make the science guy over there in the corner laugh. Oh, sure, those movies might be sad. They might even make some folks shed a tear or two. But if you want …

This movie is a smurf for sore eyes, smurfing and smurfing all the smurf through. We wish we could be more smurfific, but watching it has eaten so many of our smurf cells that we’ve forgotten how to smurf.

Harry Potter? Soooo last week. There’s a new hero in theaters now: Or, should I say, a new superhero. Captain America augmented his red, white and blue color scheme this weekend with a whole lotta green—$65.8 million, to be exact. That officially makes …

Didn’t truth, justice and the American Way go out of style back in ’68? And yet here’s Captain America showing up on movie screens in ’11.

About a week ago, I had a chance to talk by phone with Mark Henn. Never heard of him? Not surprising, perhaps, but I’m almost certain you’ve seen his work. Henn is one of the top animators at Walt Disney Studios, working on almost every 2-D American an …

The Boy Who Lived had a magical weekend at the multiplex. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2 charmed its way to a massive—and I mean massive—$168.6 million take over the three-day run, hexing any and all adversaries that would dare challenge …