Contributor: Paul Asay

It was a mind-blowing weekend for the film Limitless, which edged past modest predictions to pocket $19 million and become the most-watched movie of the weekend. The rest of the box office, though, was a bit limited. Holdovers Rango and Battle Los Ange …

Going against character, Matthew McConaughey keeps his shirt on … longer than usual, we’ll say. Too bad his movie couldn’t cover up its problematic elements quite as well.

So, the other night, my 17-year-old daughter and I were channel surfing, looking for a “documentary” to laugh at (like Extraterrestrial Major Leaguers: The Real Story of the 1927 Yankees), when we landed on Auction Kings, a program on the Discovery Cha …

City of Angels? More like City of Extraterrestrials. Late last year, a horde of space-surfing aliens swooped into Los Angeles and showed us humans what’s what in the film Skyline. It made a meager $21 million in North America. Well, second time’s a cha …

Rebecca Black hoped her song, “Friday,” and its accompanying YouTube video, might be seen by a handful of her friends. Seventy million (and counting!) views later, the 13-year-old girl is the talk of the music industry—but not in a nice way.

Red Riding Hood: “Oh, Grandmother! What big problems your movie has!” Wolf: “All the better to make money with, my dear.”

You know you’re a big deal when you get your own action figure. By that measure, Mark Zuckerberg has finally made it. Forget the fact that he invented Facebook. Forget that he could now buy much of Central Europe and still have money to purchase a Cari …

The box office was cold this weekend … or, at the very least, cold blooded. Rango, starring a talented-but-scaly chameleon with the voice of Johnny Depp, crawled away with the weekend’s honors, thumping the cash register for $38 million. It was a nice …

Actress Jane Russell died Feb. 28 at the age of 89. She was a sultry sex symbol in the 1940s and ’50s, steaming up the screen in 1943’s The Outlaw and holding her own against Marilyn Monroe in 1953’s Gentlemen Prefer Blondes (pictured). She also was on …

I just finished reading Adam Holz’s “Why I’m Not Getting an iPhone” story. Pretty interesting stuff. He says that, for him at least, having access to the whole World Wide Web via smartphone would be a bad, bad thing. The more time he spends online, the …

EA Sports’ first M-rated title packs a wallop in more ways than one. Its sparkling graphics rub up against a gritty storyline.

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 …