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To paraphrase Steve Martin circa the 1970s, it’s been a wild and crazy year. We’ve been through the Arab Spring and the Occupy Wall Street

Film has the power to move us in profound ways, both positively and negatively—sometimes even in the same movie. I was reminded of that truism

My iPad cracked the other day. My wife and I had just gotten back from my parents’ house, and we were laden with food and

What did Santa Claus (or whatever treasured, commercialist holiday figure Scientologists eagerly await this time of year) bring Tom Cruise this Christmas? A box-office win

A couple of weeks ago, part of the Plugged In staff gathered around the microphone and talked about our favorite television Christmas specials for the

I’m a gamer. A pretty good one, too. Good enough to review them for Plugged In, anyway. I just wanted to let you know that

Celebrities have different problems than you and I do. For instance, if someone mistakenly reported online that you or I had passed on to our

Kim Jong Il, hereditary dictator of global wallflower North Korea, is gone now, allegedly after suffering a heart attack from overwork. While the world at

Consider: The original Sherlock Holmes earned more than $62 million its opening weekend two years ago when it debuted on approximately 3,600 screens. The sequel,

It’s an odd dichotomy, but at Christmas time we often think about depression. Maybe not our own, but we worry about people whose sadness and