Contributor: Paul Asay

Sure, the franchise may be tired. Sure, the newest installment may have been a box-office disappointment. But, in a frame that saw the fewest number of movie tickets sold over a Memorial Day weekend since 1993 (according to hollywood.com), Shrek Foreve …

Yeah, the app store is overwhelming. Love that touch screen. It’s an all-in-one picture album, GPS, media archive, game platform and know-it-all gadget that’s assuaged the boredom of technophiles everywhere. I hear rumors you can even make calls on it. …

If I made more than $70 million over a weekend, I’d probably be pretty happy about it. When a big, green, 3-D ogre makes that much coin, he’s kinda bummed. Not that you’d know it immediately. The folks at DreamWorks are surely putting a brave face on S …

Carrie Underwood knows a little something about big, bad breakups. Now she’s setting her experience to music.

So long, Jack. See ya, Jack. Sayonara … um, Jack. On Sunday and Monday, broadcast television will bid adieu to three landmark television shows, all of which feature characters named Jack: NBC’s Law & Order (featuring DA Jack McCoy, played by Sam Wa …

A one-note SNL sketch spoofing a semi-successful ’80s TV show turns up in movie form, trying to prove that given enough swear words, any old pallid pedigree will do.

Alan Wake has been pulled into a dark world of his own imagining. But it’s gamers who may walk away with nightmares.

Did you really think that a handful of arrows would be enough to puncture the greatest suit of armor ever? Robin Hood opened this weekend boasting two Oscar-winning stars, a $225 million budget and an enviable Hollywood pedigree. But its $37.1 million …

Robin Hood sheds the tights, loses the feathered hat and instead picks up a Braveheart-style banner. The results? A little off target.

Wes Anderson’s film has style to spare, but the lessons it teaches about sex and spirituality disastrously derail it.

Don’t mess with a guy in a metal suit. Iron Man 2 clanked to the top of the box office this weekend, blasting its way to a $133.6 million take and humiliating arch-villains and opposing moviemakers alike. Iron Man’s closest competition was Freddy from …

Think films are getting more violent? If so, you’re not alone. Some researchers from the Annenberg Public Policy Center think so, too, and they have a whole bunch of sciency stuff to back it up. The folks at Annenberg (part of the University of Pennsyl …

Enrique Iglesias’ new song takes listeners for a tawdry spin on the dance floor. And while he likes it, maybe you shouldn’t.

Working for Plugged In has its perks. Take today, for instance. We had the chance to listen and talk with screenwriter/professor/Christian Barbara Nicolosi, perhaps one of Christianity’s most eloquent, most provocative voices when it comes to faith and …

Hard-core rapper Eminem has been down the road, around the bend … and now, he says, back again. He’s not afraid to tell the tale. Should you be afraid to listen?