Contributor: Paul Asay

So what if it suffered a couple of critical dings? So what if reviewers thought Pixar’s newest animated vehicle didn’t hum quite as smoothly as it ought? When Cars 2 raced into movie theaters Friday, it ran just fine. Cars 2 took a $68 million checkere …

Cameron Diaz teaches all the wrong lessons in this crass cinematic class. The results earn a big, fat F.

Plugged In recently published a story of mine called “Around the World in 80 Clicks,” which examined the amazing (and kinda scary) ability we have to go practically anywhere we want to via the Internet. I started by telling readers I was taking a “nayc …

Green Lantern’s mighty ring of power can do many wondrous things. But it couldn’t generate much excitement at the ol’ movieplex this weekend. Oh sure, Ryan Reynolds’ alter-ego Hal Jordan flew to the top of the box office, zapping his way to a very gree …

The many funny faces of Mr. Bean loom large as the British comic known around the world for his wordless weirdness offers families a rare, G-rated, live-action comedy.

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 …