Chatting With American Bible Challenge’s Jeff Foxworthy
In a television landscape filled with can’t-miss flops and out-of-the-blue hits, The American Bible Challenge—launching its third season tonight on GSN—may be one of the most improbable hits of all. For two straight seasons, this explicitly Bible-based game show has been the cable channel’s highest-rated program. And according to host Jeff Foxworthy, it’s not just […]
Movie Monday: Godzilla
We knew it was gonna be big. I mean, it’s Godzilla, right? The 350-foot lizard may need an atomic alarm clock to get up in the morning, but once he’s up, Godzilla’s the definition of big. And sure enough, when Japan’s favorite scaly son stomped into North American theaters this weekend, it caused a big […]
Coming Soon: The Atheist Channel
I was skeptical at first, but now I believe. There really is a channel for everything. It’s been coming for a while now, I suppose. As cable television has grown more and more ubiquitous, more networks moved in to cater to ever-more niche audiences. And now, thanks to streaming “television” services, we’re getting some really […]
Movie Monday: Neighbors
We all know that we’re supposed to love our neighbors as ourselves. And Spider-Man would seem like a guy who’d do his best to live up to that adage. But he might have a hard time embracing these next-door Neighbors. Seth Rogen and Zac Efron moved right past The Amazing Spider-Man 2 this weekend, snagging […]
Can Godzilla Be Too Fat?
Godzilla, stomping into theaters next weekend, is bound to headline one of the summer’s biggest movies. But some folks from the monster’s homeland think he might be a little too big. Some Japanese daikaiju fans believe their favorite monster got a bit … chunky for his role in the American Godzilla. “He’s so fat, I […]
Movie Monday: The Amazing Spider-Man 2
It looks like a Marvel-ous spring. Just one week after Captain America: The Winter Soldier was knocked off the top of the box office heap by The Other Woman, your friendly neighborhood Spider-Man swung into theaters and handed the title back to Marvel (and its big-eared Disney CEO). The Amazing Spider-Man 2 spun an estimated […]
The Secret New Mexico Burial of E.T.
This is a story with a little bit of everything: romance, scandal, shame and mystery. And there’s even an important lesson to be learned. No, no. I’m not talking about Donald Sterling. I’m referring to E.T. The Extra-Terrestrial video game, and why nearly a million copies of it were secretly buried in the New Mexico […]
Movie Monday: The Other Woman
Remember that scene in The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King when the Nazgul leader (Nazguls are the guys who ride those flying dinosaurs, for those who don’t speak geek) is bragging about his invincibility? When he says something like, “Fools! Don’t you know that no man can hurt me?!” And then […]
Focus Friday: The Irreplaceable Dad
In case you’ve not heard (which means you’ve probably not visited Plugged In lately), Irreplaceable, Focus on the Family’s first foray into film, is coming to a theater near you (one night only, May 6 in the U.S., May 7 in Canada). While it doesn’t have the explosion quotient of, say, The Avengers, it is […]
A Crazy Year for Christian Movies
It’s only April, and it’s been a crazy year for Christian movies. They’ve been crazy successful, crazy controversial and, in some moviegoers’ minds, just plain crazy. On one hand, the spring of 2014 has proved what Christians have long insisted: That there’s a market for faith-based movies. For years, we Christians have lamented the lack […]
