Contributor: Paul Asay

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.

Bad Company’s out for blood—again. More than 2.3 million copies of this popular sequel have been sold in less than a month. It just goes to show that carnage sells.

When it comes to movies, we’re serious men and women. When you walk into a theater, we don’t want you to be blindsided or suffer a locker full of hurt. Yes, some of these films can leave you feeling up, but others can sequester you in a district of mis …

Sure, Shutter Island may have lost nearly 50% of its box-office take in a week. Sure, it might’ve made just $22.2 million—less than Avatar has probably earned through themed lunchbox sales. But it was still enough to push the Martin Scorsese thriller t …

So, what’s the most enticing sound you can think of? Birds singing? The engine of a Ferrari 458 Italia? Rain spattering on your window? How about … a buzzing cell phone? According to neuromarketing research expert Martin Lindstrom, we love the soft hum …

What father wouldn’t sell his ultra-valuable baseball card and take on a drug cartel to pay for his daughter’s über-expensive wedding? But do we need to see a foul-mouthed movie about it?

I like the Olympics. I like almost everything about them. I like the snowboard cross. I like bobsledding. I like it when figure skaters hit the perfect quad and when short-track speed skaters careen into walls. I even like the biathalon, for goodness’ …