Contributor: Paul Asay

We have a tendency to bemoan reality television, and sometimes with good reason. But, just like most everything in life, it’s a mixed bag: For every Jersey Shore there’s an Undercover Boss. For every duplicitous act on Big Brother there’s a feel-good s …

Lost in all the Hunger Games brouhaha this weekend was the remarkably strong debut of October Baby. The film details both the literal and spiritual journey of an abortion survivor—not exactly the sort of premise that you’d expect would pack ’em into th …

We all saw this coming. The Hunger Games, one of the most hotly anticipated movies of 2012, screamed to an estimated $155 million opening weekend take, obliterating the rest of the field (21 Jump Street finished a distant second with $21.3 million) and …

When I was a little boy—maybe 4—I was sure of perhaps just one thing. That no matter how bad I was that day, whether I colored on the kitchen walls or threw a fit or had an unfortunate “accident,” there was one person who would love me no matter what: …

Don’t look now, but Channing Tatum is plotting to take over the world. Well, maybe “plotting” is a little strong. That suggests that the versatile pretty-boy actor is in a secret bunker somewhere, rubbing his hands together and cackling with evil glee. …

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 …