Contributor: Paul Asay

Avatar, as you may have heard, is kind of a big deal. It’s now the highest-grossing movie ever internationally, and it’ll likely break Titanic’s $600 million record for domestic grosses in the next week or so. So, with all that money floating around (s …

I never thought I’d say this, but thank goodness for Avatar. Yes, the film proved its box office might yet again, grabbing another $36 million to claim the top spot for the sixth straight week. Yes, I’m sick of starting off every Monday blog with the s …

This January, it looks like the film industry has found religion. (Or, if you’re more cynical, you might say it’s found that religion can be a nice selling point.) The Book of Eli has made about $43 million in its first week of release. Avatar and The …

To Save a Life begins with one that wasn’t. And sex, drugs, divorce and cutting make things worse … before they get better—by the grace of God and the choices of a few determined teens.

Clearly, I’m doing this writing thing all wrong. I write roughly 6 gazillion words a day, most of which are immediately cut (and sometimes burned) by my editor. Those which remain could still lay siege to a mid-sized fortress (if they somehow attained …

Avatar. No. 1. Again. ‘Nuff said about that. But this weekend, James Cameron’s titanic blue-hued blockbuster had a bit (just a bit) of competition from Denzel Washington’s  The Book of Eli, which slid into the No. 2 slot with $31.6 million (compar …

Here’s a movie that puts the proverbial ball right through the net. Too bad it’s about Ping-Pong, where that’s not a good thing.

For 31 years in a post-apocalyptic nightmare, Eli has treasured and protected the world’s most precious set of words. Now someone wants to take the Book away from him.

Here at Plugged In, we’re always telling y’all that too much TV is bad for you. Yes, we know that some of you roll your eyes and say, “Yeah, yeah, whatever,” and then flip on Gossip Girl just to spite us. So it’s for you that I’ll reiterate: Too much t …

Daybreakers, a curious little vampire tale, was the only new film to break into the Top 5 at the box office over the weekend, with $15 million changing hands between mostly mindless moviegoers and mostly bored teenage ticket takers. I doubt very many o …

Edward is back! Oops. Wrong Edward. It’s 2019, and almost everyone’s a vampire now, so there’s bound to be lots of undead Edwards. Problem is, if everyone’s a bloodsucker, whose blood are they sucking?

We all know the theory: If you wanna make a big blockbuster film these days, you need to throw in some sex, even if the film doesn’t necessarily require it—a little nudity, perhaps, or a salacious scene, or at the (ahem) bare minimum, a cleavage-reveal …

With her aptly named debut album, Animal, Ke$ha’s on top of the music world. What put her there? Her primal party-’til-you-pass-out pulpit pounding.

It’s 2010, folks, and lots of us are thrilled to have another blank slate on which to draw. But despite the year being so shiny new and all, the box office looks suspiciously similar. James Cameron’s sci-fi extravaganza Avatar made another $68.3 millio …

Ben Affleck’s tumultuous tale of abduction, treachery and murder explores humanity’s best and worst intentions—and questions the line that separates them.