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Well, we knew it was gonna be big. But this big? The Avengers, Marvel’s supersized superhero flick, didn’t just win the weekend box-office crown. It

For the last few weeks, we’ve been talking about seeing problematic or challenging movies. Not so much about how to decide whether you see them,

My wife and I both like going to a good movie. She may not ramble on afterwards about a pic’s artistic nuances and production values

In its first five days in foreign theaters, Marvel’s The Avengers raked in a whopping $185.1 million. That’s right. By the time the latest supersized

Every parent of a teenage daughter has, at some point, wrestled with the makeup issue. Should it be allowed? If so, when? What kind? And

It was supposed to be a busy weekend at the multiplex. With the spring movie season winding down and The Avengers just around the corner

Shortly after we started this series of blog posts on how to engage with problematic films, I came across a comment from Josh, one of

Max Schrems is telling you to watch out. Earlier this year The New York Times reported Max’s ongoing battle with Facebook. It seems that after

Call it the Katniss Effect. Around the country, anecdotal evidence suggests that a fair number of girls are picking up Hunger Games heroine Katniss Everdeen’s

A 2004 Disney Channel movie called Pixel Perfect involves a tech-savvy teen creating a holographic lead singer for his rock band, the Zettabytes. All goes