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Don’t tell my editor this … but I have a soft spot for James Bond. It’s partly my grandmother’s fault. Grandma, a woman who was

I’ve been diligently digging through cause-and-effect stories about media for more than a decade and a half now. It’s sort of a Plugged In tradition,

So you’ve tossed your diet overboard like a rusty anchor, huh? I understand. Cutting back on favorite foods and snacks can be doggone tough. (Unless

If you’ve been paying attention to the news during this presidential election cycle, you’ve probably noticed the wide variance among different polls. Over at Fox

Game over, man. Disney Animation’s Wreck-It Ralph, about an old-school videogame villain who’s tired of being the (literal) fall guy, made the week’s box office

It’s not often you see a 3-foot-6 zombie, particularly one that knocks on your door. But that’s what happened to me Wednesday night, groaning not

Sesame Street’s little, giggly Elmo may just seem like a furry friend of the letters A and Q to you. But to me, he’s the

The calendar yesterday may have read Oct. 30, the day before Halloween. But for Star Wars fans everywhere, it was more like an early Christmas.

The late Douglas Adams, of The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy fame, wrote, “If it looks like a duck, and quacks like a duck, we

Normally, if a movie has any hope of securing the top slot at the box office on a given weekend, it happens the first week