Contributor: Paul Asay

One go-around with the four dysfunctional couples in Why Did I Get Married? apparently wasn’t enough. And so Tyler Perry is back for seconds. Will these couples come up with a suitable answer for their titular question this time?

I think most Americans think of television as intellectual comfort food. Generally, we don’t seem to gravitate toward programs because they’re wildly creative and different. We tend to like shows that are reliably the same each and every week. Which ma …

American commandos couldn’t take it down. Bounty hunters failed to haul it off. Even wimpy kids fell short. No, Tim Burton’s mighty Alice in Wonderland, after dominating the box office for the last three weeks, was finally taken down by a horde of Viki …

Justin Bieber and Sean Kingston vie for the attention of the same girl in a song and video that unintentionally showcase just how big the gap between 20-year-old Kingston and 16-year-old Bieber actually is … or at least should be.

Old Yeller? Black Beauty? Flipper? There’s a cool new pet in theaters now … and this one eats the rest of them for lunch. Maybe literally.

We humans are strange, mixed-up things. We are God’s creations, carrying God’s likeness and love—yet we are fallen creatures, torn by sin and selfishness and decay. We seem both animal and angel, and often we’re unable to truly grasp the division withi …

The box-office showdown figured to be a tag-team clash of celebrity heavyweights: In one corner sat Jennifer Aniston and Gerard Butler, tabloid faves and stars of the adventure rom-com The Bounty Hunter. In the other crouched Jude Law and past Oscar ch …

You want the truth? Nothing but the truth? Leonardo DiCaprio and Russell Crowe take on torrents of terrorists in this overlong, overly disgusting spy thriller.

The Cheshire Cat isn’t the only one grinning in Wonderland these days. Alice in Wonderland, Tim Burton’s curiously entertaining 3-D romp, was the weekend’s box-office champion again, collecting another $62 million to bring its two-week total to slightl …

Wouldn’t you know it. Just when I break down and buy a new, HD, flat-screen, fancy-schmancy television (it even comes with a remote!), I find that it’s already behind the times. HD? That’s sooooo 2009. The Joneses are buying 3-D TVs now. Well, maybe th …

Gym Class Heroes frontman Travie McCoy wants to be a “Billionaire.” And his first solo hit brainstorms all the ways he’d roll if he was rolling in dough.

In the curious country of Underland, there’s a certain cake that, if you eat it, will make you grow. I wonder if the folks at Disney have been force-feeding that magical cake to the studio’s ambitious 3-D project, Alice in Wonderland. The movie’s ticke …

It’s time to begin Plugged In’s official live blog of the Oscars. Our red-carpet invites must have gotten lost in the mail this year, so we’ll be watching it on television, just like you are, and writing about whatever seems news- or noteworthy to us. …

Troy and Gabbie sing, dance and make googly eyes at each other … again.

Even at 19, Alice hasn’t gotten her feet firmly underneath her. She’s tumbled back down the rabbit hole—and this time Underland wants her to dispatch the fearsome Jabberwocky. Why so fearsome? Because Tim Burton wanted him to be so.