Contributor: Paul Asay

Angelina Jolie peppers people with gunfire in this savory spy thriller. But will it raise your blood pressure?

Superheroes were kind of a sensitive subject around my house when I was growing up. My best friend and I loved ’em, and whenever he was over, we’d stuff socks in our shirtsleeves (to make our muscles look bigger) throw some bath towels around our necks …

The brothers are back with a (sort of) new TV show and a (for sure) new album to support it—but they’re still making the same frothy, family-friendly music that made them stars in the first place.

It was a dream of a weekend for Leonardo DiCaprio and director Christopher Nolan. Their project Inception, in which a team of thought-thieves pilfer corporate secrets from their targets’ dreams, REM’ed its way to a $60.4 million box-office victory. No …

Bruno Mars hits No. 1 with a ballad sure to be played at homecoming dances everywhere. But what else might he have ready by prom?

Are teens rejecting faith for Facebook? The folks over at the Barna Group suggest that something like that may be happening. Barna has been studying the intersection of Christianity and culture for years now. And while the researchers say that faith is …

Dastardly Gru may have struggled in his quest to become the world’s No. 1 supervillian. But he had no trouble at all propelling his film, Despicable Me, to the top of the box office this weekend. Universal’s new animated effort earned more than $60 mil …

Keifer and Shawna Thompson plant a big country-sized—and altar-bound—kiss on listeners with this sweet love ballad.

Folks are stabbed, sliced, beheaded, caught in bear traps and burned alive. And that’s before the title screen. After that, things get really bad.

Just like their namesakes did in The Twilight Saga: Eclipse, teams Edward and Jacob joined forces for a long holiday weekend to cast down their competition and posture triumphantly on the field of battle. The new Twilight film bit big at the box office …

Some folks say that they and cameras do not get along. But few people can say, as I can, that they’ve killed one with their face. It’s remarkable it didn’t happen sooner. I was a gangly, pimply, brace-filled, bespectacled child in junior high, often ta …

Bella and Edward are still an item in the third installment of Stephenie Meyer’s preternaturally complicated romantic saga. But Jacob’s not ready to give his favorite girl up without a fight. Nor, for that matter, are a whole bunch of vindictive vampire baddies who want her dead.

So, given your choice of watching children’s toys act like adults or real adults act like children, what would you pick? Most Americans went with the playthings this week, pushing Toy Story 3 to the top of the weekend’s movie charts again with $59 mill …

Adam Sandler, Kevin James, Chris Rock, David Spade and Rob Schneider finally grow up? Don’t count on it.

Plugged In has been talking about Facebook and Twitter for, oh, years now—their pros, their cons and how they’re changing the way we relate to each other. Now, Plugged In has launched its very own Facebook page and Twitter feed (@pluggedintweet, if you …