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 […]
Movie Monday: Captain America Soldiers On
Sure, Rio’s nice this time of year. And heaven is, well, heavenly. But when it comes to movies, North American audiences still think there’s nothing quite like, well, America. Captain America, that is. Captain America: The Winter Soldier once again took point and marched straight to the top of the box office this weekend—the third […]
Trust Issues
Last Thursday, Adam Holz published a great blog (“It’s an I, I, I, I, I World?“) about society’s growing embrace of individualism. In it, he wrote about recent reports that Millennials are less prone to belong to a political party or join a religion. It turns out that they’re suspicious of ideologies and wait longer […]
Movie Monday: Captain America’s Winter Soldier
Thought spring had finally come? Already digging holes to plant your peonies? Hold off, people. Baseball’s barely begun, it’s snowing here in Colorado Springs, and a blast of winter—the Winter Soldier, that is—is chilling theaters across America and filling Disney freezers with cold, hard cash. Oh, we knew it was coming, this arctic wave from […]
Anger of Biblical Proportions
Unless you’ve been playing an elaborate, and early, April Fool’s joke on us, I gather a lot of you didn’t care much for Noah. Plugged In outlets have been awash with angry Noah viewers and even some angry non-Noah viewers who wouldn’t see the movie for a gazillion dollars. “The movie got NOTHING right except […]
Movie Monday: Noah
After weathering a deluge of controversy before it even launched, Noah and his ark sailed over a sea of competitors and came to rest at the top of the box office. The pot of gold at the end of this rainbow? An estimated $44 million—a fairly worthless sum for Noah himself, given the lack of […]