Contributor: Paul Asay

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 …

Technically, the holiday weekend is still chugging along. With today being President’s Day, the entertainment industry is hoping that scads of holiday-taking lagabouts will spend the day at the local multiplex, watching movie after movie and subsisting …

On the corner of my desk here at Plugged In headquarters, I have a stack of empty Mountain Dew cans. The size and shape of the stack varies from week to week and month to month (depending on where I am with my recycling). I was in the process of buildi …

Whitney Houston’s body was flown to New Jersey last night in preparation for a Saturday funeral in Newark—the city in which she was born and raised. The private service will be held at New Hope Baptist Church—the place where she first started singing a …

Adam Sandler used to spend his days blowing away the bad guys. Now he wants to start blow-drying … hair.

Last year, it seemed as though the movie-going public had forgotten its collective love of film. Oh, sure, there were a few blockbusters here and there. But more weekends than not, folks looked at what was playing and shrugged—unable to recall the magi …

First comes love, then comes marriage, then comes a horrible car crash that wipes out the memory of either. What comes next again?

I own a record player. We don’t use it, of course. We can’t. It was made in 1928, and the crank handle that wound the turntable doesn’t wind anymore. The record player is part of a massive piece of furniture—the nifty-keeno home entertainment system of …

And you thought the Super Bowl was close. In a box office battle not quite for the ages, the sci-fi popcorn-muncher Chronicle pushed past Daniel Radcliffe’s horrifish The Woman in Black by the slim margin of $22 million to $21 million—a veritable pop-c …

It’s Groundhog Day, people. And really, it’s only natural that on this revered holiday, my mind turns its attention to … Michael Bolton. What? The connection isn’t obvious? Let me explain. Ever since the 1993 film Groundhog Day was released, most of us …

The movie’s about a girl named Plum. But the only fruit we can think about right now is a tomato. A rotten one. Being thrown at the screen.