Contributor: Paul Asay

Score one for the icky. Jacka– 3D, a cinematic collection of bizarre, dangerous and often really, really disgusting stunts, catapulted to the top of the box office like a Porta Potty slingshot this weekend, cresting at an estimated $50 million and bec …

Johnny Knoxville and his comedically sadistic and masochistic crew perform a series of dangerous, disgusting and demeaning stunts for the paying audience’s pleasure. In 3-D.

Clint Eastwood serves up a compelling—but ultimately confusing—campfire story about three ghosts, still very much alive, searching for the key to the afterlife.

Toy Story 3 is coming out on DVD next month, and I, for one, am not looking forward to it. Oh, I’ve heard it’s a fantastic film. Some folks are saying it might not just get nominated for a Best Picture Academy Award, but perhaps win the thing. I’m sure …

If Secretariat, the horse, was still alive today, and if the thoroughbred received a visitor who happened to have boxofficemojo.com bookmarked on his laptop, the visitor might well turn to the horse and say, “Why the long Facebook?” To which Secretaria …

With the success of MTV’s Jersey Shore, it was only a matter of time before reality show makers scoped out the other 49 states to determine what sort of regionally stereotypic, debauched twentysomethings might be exploited for a reality show. Alas, it …

A horse is a horse, of course, of course. Unless the horse is the famous Secretariat, perhaps the greatest racehorse ever. We know he wins in the end. Does his movie?

Longtime frienemies Katherine Heigl and Josh Duhamel suddenly find themselves with child when their best friends die in a car crash—leaving a 1-year-old girl to their charge.

Singer/songwriter/Twitterer extraordinaire John Mayer stopped tweeting back in February, leaving his 3 million-plus followers adrift and leaderless in a great digital wasteland. He never returned to the medium that helped make him one of pop culture’s …

Sony “likes” The Social Network—and a whole lot of other folks do, too. The movies most folks are calling “the Facebook film” topped the box office this week, snagging $23 million. The bevy of holdovers that followed weren’t within shouting distance of …

For nearly two months now, 33 Chilean miners have been living a half-mile underground, waiting for rescue. Experts say these miners will see the sun again—eventually. Until then, the miners are cobbling together a new reality down under—and that realit …

Kenny Chesney claims Ernest Hemingway’s life served as an inspiration of sorts for his 17th release. Before taking a swig of his Whiskey, though, it might be wise to recall exactly where that substance led Chesney’s titular muse.

Money really doesn’t sleep. Sometimes at 2 a.m., I think I hear the sound of laughter and music from my billfold, as my tiny collection of George Washingtons boogies down until dawn. If my money is lonely—as it often is—I’ll sometimes find it sitting o …

It’s a terrible tug-of-war in this movie based on Karen Kingsbury’s book: two sets of parents fighting over the fate of one 6-year-old boy.

In high school, Marni was bullied by the meanest of mean girls. Now she learns that her brother is marrying that monster. Can people change? Can we allow them to?