Contributor: Paul Asay

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 …

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

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.

On April 28, Superman announced his intention of giving up his U.S. citizenship.  “I’m tired of having my actions construed as instruments of U.S. policy,” the Man of Steel says in the 900th issue of Action Comics. “‘Truth, justice and the American way …

Score one for high-octane entertainment. Fast Five, the latest installment in the Vin Diesel-anchored The Fast and the Furious franchise, screamed past its competitors for a massive $83.6 million weekend take. While the fact that Fast Five won the week …

It’s time to rent that tux, make those reservations and pick out a suitable corsage. Disney’s asked us out to the dance—and it’s promising to provide a magical evening.

Already, 2011 has been a year of loss. Elizabeth Taylor died. So did Jane Russell. And let’s not forget the Denver Nuggets’ loss last night to Oklahoma City. But nothing rocked me quite as much as the report that the typewriter had clicked its last cla …

Those wacky animated birds had another nice weekend in the sun this week, as Rio bested a bevy of new releases to retain its hold on the box office’s No. 1 slot. Rio snagged an estimated $26.8 million, a cool mil higher than Tyler Perry’s Madea’s Big H …

Britney Spears joins forces with two other pop divas, Ke$ha and Nicki Minaj, to remix one of her Femme Fatale tunes. The result is less than the sum of its parts. (Or maybe it’s more.)