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A Dark Night
Early this morning, a shooter—allegedly 24-year-old James Holmes, according to police—opened fire in an Aurora, Colo., movie theater midnight screening of The Dark Knight Rises.
Emmy Nominees: Rated TV-MA
Nominees for this year’s Emmy awards were released this morning, and many of the nominees have been showered with Emmy love many times before. AMC’s
The Bright Future of Video Gaming (Really!)
If you’ve seen almost any sci-fi movie set in the future, you know what kind of a bleak, dismal place it’s going to be. According
Out of India
I just got back from India. Along with a handful of other folks, I was a guest of Friends Church of Yorba Linda, Calif., on
Movie Monday: Ice Age Drifts to the Front
Wedged between two iconic superheroes, Manny made the most of it. The lumbering mammoth and his motley band of prehistoric pals pulled Ice Age: Continental
Seventeen’s Pledge: Do You Buy It?
Julia Bluhm is one of my heroes. Recently, the 14-year-old took on Seventeen magazine, armed only with an online petition and a passion for seeing
Why Batman Must Die
The Dark Knight Rises lands in theaters on July 20. And already there’s feverish speculation regarding just how high the opening-weekend box office will go—specifically,
A Whole New Dimension (Sort Of)
Sick of wearing dark glasses in a dark theater? Tired of laying out all that extra cash for a 3-D experience that just doesn’t seem
A Conversation With Mirror Mirror’s Lily Collins
Movies are, by definition, trendy. Filmmakers want to make movies that folks want to see—movies that’ll grab their attention and, hopefully, bring them back for
Movie Monday: The Amazing Spider-Man
Fireworks? Barbecues? Baseball? Hey, they were all viable ways to celebrate Independence Day during this weirdly elongated holiday “weekend.” But it seems as though when
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Good media discernment is about guarding our eyes and hearts before we watch or listen. And it’s also about grappling with the entertainment we do see or hear. That’s why the Plugged In Blog is devoted to guarding, discussing and grappling. About Plugged In >>