Contributor: Paul Asay

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’ …

Ewan McGregor’s out to rattle some chains in Roman Polanski’s new politically tinged thriller. But what’s a ghost got to do with waterboarding?

Halfway through The Wolfman, I began wondering, “Would the werewolf be quite so murderous if someone just gave him some Milk Bones?” I know Milk Bones always cheer my dog up. Really, you’d think someone would’ve tried to formulate a better strategy for …

Did you do something special with your significant other this weekend? Give them flowers? Chocolates? A new crescent wrench? Or did you celebrate Valentine’s Day like much of America apparently did, and buy your sweetie … some movie tickets? A trio of …

So I was sitting on my couch yesterday, munching on nachos and sipping a carbonated beverage when I saw Tim Tebow tackle his mother. It was a clean hit—no flags were thrown, no fines were levied. And it was, I must admit, a clever turn for what at firs …

It’s amazing what dust an eensy-weensy Super Bowl ad can stir up. As some of you may have heard, Focus on the Family (Plugged In’s parent organization) will be airing a commercial during the Big Game this weekend. The ad—featuring former Florida Gators …

The kill-happy Charlie Wax may be the least secretive secret agent in history. Now his bosses want him and his new partner to take down a terror cell in Paris. Can the City of Lights survive the assault? More importantly, can we?

Someday, I will write this Monday blog and announce that Avatar has fallen to No. 2. But today is not that day. Avatar continued to hold a convincing lead on the weekend’s box office charts, pulling down another $30 million to continue its march to bec …

We’ve read stories on how celebrities influence us. We’ve read stories on how we’re growing more obsessed with how we look. We’ve even read stories on how celebrities affect that obsession. But I’ve never read a story quite like this. There’s a woman i …

When is love not really love? When it’s magic, of course. That’s something Kristen Bell finds out when a pack of guys starts drooling over her after she retrieves coins from a fountain of love in Rome. Can she sort out what’s true from what’s infatuation? Does this movie bother to try?

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 …