Contributor: Paul Asay

Dastardly Gru may have struggled in his quest to become the world’s No. 1 supervillian. But he had no trouble at all propelling his film, Despicable Me, to the top of the box office this weekend. Universal’s new animated effort earned more than $60 mil …

Keifer and Shawna Thompson plant a big country-sized—and altar-bound—kiss on listeners with this sweet love ballad.

Folks are stabbed, sliced, beheaded, caught in bear traps and burned alive. And that’s before the title screen. After that, things get really bad.

Just like their namesakes did in The Twilight Saga: Eclipse, teams Edward and Jacob joined forces for a long holiday weekend to cast down their competition and posture triumphantly on the field of battle. The new Twilight film bit big at the box office …

Some folks say that they and cameras do not get along. But few people can say, as I can, that they’ve killed one with their face. It’s remarkable it didn’t happen sooner. I was a gangly, pimply, brace-filled, bespectacled child in junior high, often ta …

Bella and Edward are still an item in the third installment of Stephenie Meyer’s preternaturally complicated romantic saga. But Jacob’s not ready to give his favorite girl up without a fight. Nor, for that matter, are a whole bunch of vindictive vampire baddies who want her dead.

So, given your choice of watching children’s toys act like adults or real adults act like children, what would you pick? Most Americans went with the playthings this week, pushing Toy Story 3 to the top of the weekend’s movie charts again with $59 mill …

Adam Sandler, Kevin James, Chris Rock, David Spade and Rob Schneider finally grow up? Don’t count on it.

Plugged In has been talking about Facebook and Twitter for, oh, years now—their pros, their cons and how they’re changing the way we relate to each other. Now, Plugged In has launched its very own Facebook page and Twitter feed (@pluggedintweet, if you …

Syfy, the oddly spelled cable outlet once known as the Sci-Fi Network, has never been known for its award-winning original programming. Known for such films as Aztec Rex (in which Aztecs and Conquistadors team up to fight a rampaging dinosaur), The Man …

Think earthlings have issues? Be glad you don’t live on Cybertron. It’s in the midst of a huge civil war, is completely lacking in good vacation spots, and is overrun with … transformers. (Or at least it used to be.)

It was easy to figure out this week’s big movie (ahem) buzz. Toy Story 3, the newest installment in Pixar’s timeless franchise, collected an estimated $109 million this weekend—enough cash to buy everyone in New York City a Barbie doll. It was Pixar’s …

Quick: When you hear the name Homer, do you think of the father of Western civilization’s literature, the Greek poet who crafted The Iliad and The Odyssey? Or do you think of a yellow-skinned cartoon character who has a thing for donuts? Mmmmmm, donuts …

Are you sure we’ve made it to the summer blockbuster season? You wouldn’t know it by the box-office takes as of late. Shrek Forever After took the title for the third straight week with $25.3 million—and that says more about its competition than its lo …

Katherine Heigl thinks she married the perfect man. Turns out, he used to be an assassin. What other deep, dark secrets is he hiding? That he has a Twitter account?