Contributor: Paul Asay

To market its bloody new horror shooter, Electronic Arts told potential customers that Dead Space 2 is “revolting”—and that “your mom’s gonna hate it.” Thanks, EA, for writing our review for us.

One thing we can say for the salaciously silly hip-hop duo LMFAO, what you see is what you get. And what do we see? Partying. And more partying. Oh, did we mention the partying?

Get ready, America, for the year of Natalie Portman. Portman’s No Strings Attached (which also stars camera pitchman Ashton Kutcher) roped in box office honors this weekend, threading its way to $20.3 million. It’s one of two films she has in the top 1 …

This story of people mysteriously losing their sight and getting quarantined together poses some searching questions about good and evil … and exposes audiences to plenty of both.

The Truman Show director Peter Weir turns Slavomir Rawicz’s 1956 book The Long Walk: The True Story of a Trek to Freedom into an achingly epic movie about prisoners who escape from a Siberian gulag.

The box office had less Grit, more guns over the weekend, as The Green Hornet buzzed to $34 million and the weekend win—with, of course, receipts still to be counted for Martin Luther King, Jr. Day. Thanks in part to a bevy of 3-D screenings (which acc …

I recently wrote a review of NBC’s new show The Cape (a kinda dumb but kinda fun superhero show) and noted our hero fell in cahoots with a band of odd-but-likeable bank robbers. I said that while the show features a man trying to “do the right thing—th …

Well, Plugged In’s iPhone app has been up and running for about a month now, and we’ve heard that a few of you have even downloaded the thing. This is gratifying to me personally, as I spent months slaving over code, making sure that— My editor reminds …

Avril thinks her music is more mature now that she’s all grown up. We think it’s just messier and meaner.

Forget the new releases: Cinemagoers this weekend favored an old movie based on an older movie set in the old, old West. The Coen Brothers’ True Grit triumphed at the box office after playing second fiddle the last two weekends to Little Fockers. Grit …

Is she a witch or isn’t she? That’s the question set before Nicholas Cage and his band of merry medieval cohorts. To kill or be killed is what’s on her mind.

We’re back in the office after a day off, and it looks like the new year’s starting off much as 2010 ended, at least as far as movies are concerned. Ben Stiller and Robert De Niro’s rather foul comedy, Little Fockers, was technically the repeat winner …

Well, 2010 is closing shop, making it a natural time to take stock of the year behind us and look forward to the year ahead. And if entertainment studios are doing the same thing, they may look at the year-end box office figures and have an important N …

On Dec. 28, MTV aired a special spin-off of its popular 16 and Pregnant program. Titled No Easy Decision, it focuses on a 19-year-old girl—pregnant for the second time—as she decides to have, and goes through with, an abortion. The girl, Markai Durham, …

I don’t want to write this post. How many times must we talk about Miley Cyrus’ latest indiscretion? When does this tripe stop qualifying as “news” and slips to a gossip site afterthought? I’m tired of this story. I don’t want to talk about the latest …