Contributor: Paul Asay

Gnomeo & Juliet, as sweet as these G-rated animated gnomes might be, will probably never waddle to an Academy Award ceremony. So, while the big boys were over at the Kodak Theatre last night tossing each other golden statuettes, these lawn ornament …

Owen Wilson’s been given a license to cheat by his wife. And he’s doing his best to use it in the Farrelly brothers’ latest effort to offend.

I have a confession to make: I love my car. It’s not a particularly snazzy or pretty car, mind you. It’s a Honda Fit—a vehicle slightly bigger than a skateboard that requires me to switch out the gerbils every other month or so. But since I’m not parti …

The box office was a misty, mysterious place to be this weekend, with four movies packed tightly together at the top of the standings, looking like a handful of cinematic sardines. And since we still have a Presidents’ Day worth of box office receipts …

So for those of you who missed it, Watson—IBM’s wicked smart supercomputer—beat renowned Jeopardy champs Ken Jennings and Brad Rutter in a much-hyped three-day smackdown on the game show. Watson pocketed $77,147 in cash (along with a $1 million grand p …

‘Iron Man’ may be way cool superhero CGI on the outside. But it’s what’s on the inside that counts, right? So we’re taking a good look underneath this film’s rigid metallic shell.

It was a box office showdown between a 16-year-old superstar and a 44-year-old superstar who still thinks he’s 16, with the oldster showing the whippersnapper how it’s done. Adam Sandler’s Just Go With It barely edged the concert biopic Justin Bieber: …

Jennifer Aniston and Adam Sandler fall in love while sinking fast in a sea of lies so deep they can’t even see daylight anymore. Just Go With It? More like Just Make It Stop.

JLo’s stripped out the punctuation from her stage name and is back on the charts with a catchy yet highly derivative dance number featuring rapper Pitbull.

I’m not exactly sure when it struck me. Maybe it was when I brushed my teeth this morning and found the bathroom floor littered with bristles. Maybe it was when I bit through my cereal spoon. Maybe it was when I shook my fist at the plastic pink flamin …

Game? There was a game? Yeah, there was a game of some sort yesterday, one in which the Green Bay Packers scored 31 runs on the Pittsburgh Steelers, with Aaron Rogers dribbling the ball for all its worth and sinking it into the net several times to tak …

Is it time for Hollywood to begin biting their collective, metaphorical nails? D-grade horror film The Roommate snagged box office honors this week with $15.6 million, but the real scare might come from the weekend’s cumulative bottom line. Revenue was …

It’s a dark, cold and unforgiving place. Few should dare to go to this unlit land, and those foolhardy enough to try should be warned that the experience might forever scar them. But enough about the movie. Let’s talk about the caves.

The faith-inflected frightfest The Rite scared up $15 million to claim No. 1 at the box office this weekend. It proved Anthony Hopkins, at the age of 73, can still be a pretty scary guy. In a way, from Plugged In’s perspective, The Rite wasn’t nearly a …

Oscar, America’s favorite naked golden statuette, bestowed its shiny favor on a handful of films this morning, honoring the fighter in all of them, their true grit. From their inception and through the more than 127 hours of their making, they’ve inspi …