Contributor: Paul Asay

After 15 years, Duke Nukem is back to his alien-slaying, stripper-admiring ways. Plugged In can only ask, “Why so soon?”

Mars isn’t the most hospitable place at the best of times. But when Darius Mason accidentally unleashes a horde of alien critters, things on the planet get a whole lot worse—and more violent.

Before they became the worst of enemies, Charles Xavier and Erik Lehnsherr were the best of friends. We guess you could say their relationship mutated.

Sure, there’s a teardrop right in the song title. But the truth is, Coldplay’s new anthem may make you smile instead.

The box office derby sent us Plugged In movie reviewers searching for Alka-Seltzer over the Memorial Day holiday weekend. It kinda made us feel a little headache-y and sick to our stomachs. If you’re looking for the reason for our billious angst, look …

When I was a kid, I thought pirates were pretty nifty. They had eye patches, peg legs, cool parrots (who might also have eye patches and peg legs), cool hats, pieces o’ eight (whatever those are). Then one night (surely without my parents’ knowledge) I …

Shiver me timbers! Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides raked in plenty of booty this weekend, with Capt. Jack Sparrow dragging more than 90 million dubloons out of the North American box office. You’d think that kind of loot would be enough to …

Yet another teen sex- and alcohol-romp, this time set to ’70s tunes. See the movie’s title? Our review confirms that it lives up to it.

Time magazine recently published an article (“Bursting the Bubble: Are We Isolated in a World Wide Web of One?”) that discussed how search engines and social networks tailor our searches and pages for us, giving us stuff they think we want. Google and …

Once again, Thor thundered mightily at the box office, bellowing to a $34.5 million weekend to take the title. But Bridesmaids, a gross-out R-rated comedy by and for women, won a nice consolation prize. But not the crown for Miss Congeniality, mind you …

Colonel Claus von Stauffenberg lost an eye, a hand and several fingers in the service of Adolf Hitler’s Third Reich. He sacrificed the rest of himself fighting it.

We love our heroes. The success of Thor and the bevy of superheroes due to invade both the big and small screen is, I think, an illustration of that. We’re all looking for folks we can look up to, folks we can emulate, folks who put their own lives in …

Well, they had a nice run. They tore past the competition last week like they were so many tardy tortoises. But Vin Diesel and Paul Walker of Fast Five just couldn’t outrace the mighty hammer of Thor. Thor, Marvel’s latest comic book icon to be trotted …

Marvel’s latest superhero movie celebrates the Norse god of thunder in all his blond, hammer-wielding glory. What, then, could Plugged In possibly find to like about this flick? You might be surprised.

This Bishop T.D. Jakes-produced comedy has some serious lessons to share about love and marriage and relationships—alongside a few sex jokes.