Meg Paddles to First Place
The prehistoric monster that stars in The Meg (the shark, not Jason Statham) would never be mistaken for something you’d throw in a tiny aquarium with a plastic treasure chest. Still, for its makers at Warner Bros., the megalodon is proving to be one gold fish. The Meg came out this weekend fins-a-flying and ready […]
Eighth Grade,’ Like Eighth Graders, Needs Parents
Eighth Grade, the movie, is rated R, and for some pretty obvious reasons. Our intrepid reviewer Kristin Smith noted lots of profanity (including about 10 f-words) and saw plenty of references to various types of sexual activity when she screened the film. “It left me wondering why so much of it had to be there,” […]
Culture Clips: Make Me Look Like Myself, Only Better
We all probably have a favorite photo of ourselves—the one we use on our Facebook pages and Christmas cards, the one where the light was just right and our smile was just so and our hair was less unruly than it typically is. (Or, in the case of some of us, when we had hair […]
Fallout Hangs on to No. 1
What’s an impossible mission? Out-adorabling Winnie-the-Pooh, that’s what. But out-earning him? Yeah, that’s possible. Mission: Impossible – Fallout took the No. 1 slot for the second-straight weekend in convincing, if not dominating, fashion, forcing a bevy of newcomers to fight for the leftovers. Tom Cruise’s lastest cinematic display of derring-do collected about $35 million in […]
Vodcast: The Dark Knight, 10 Years Later
There’s a sign/T-Shirt/bumper sticker going around that goes something like this: “Always be yourself. Unless you can be Batman. Then always be Batman.” We’d quibble with that here at Plugged In, and not just for the fact that even Batman doesn’t always want to be Batman. But we wouldn’t deny (or, at least, I wouldn’t) […]
The Man Behind the Bear: An Interview With Christopher Robin Producer Brigham Taylor
Christopher Robin may not be wandering around a 100-acre wood anymore, but he’s just as lost as he ever was. He’s an adult now, working way too much and losing touch with his young family. He could use a little help finding his way out of his very adult predicament—and he finds it in some […]
Mission: Impossible – Fallout Climbs up to No. 1
Tom Cruise, the AARP’s favorite action hero, is well known for doing most of his own stunts. Whether it’s hanging off a helicopter or scaling a cliff face or jumping from a building (which led to a broken ankle this time ‘round), Cruise is loathe to let a stuntman or CGI have all the fun. […]
Culture Clips: Demi’s Overdose
After six years of sobriety, pop star Demi Lovato admitted on her latest single that she wasn’t “Sober” anymore. Yesterday, the world came to know the tragic depth of her relapse. Lovato was taken to a Los Angeles-area hospital after an apparent drug overdose, according to multiple media reports. (Initially, celebrity gossip site TMZ reported […]
What a Rescue in Thailand Can Teach Us About Entertainment … and Life
It’s nice to read a happy ending now and then. Like much of the world, I’ve been following the story of a Thailand soccer team—12 boys and a coach—who’d been trapped in a flooded cave for more than two weeks. Rescuers were racing ’round the clock to save the team before heavy rains made rescue […]
Ant-Man and the Wasp Make a Big Impact
Disney and Marvel may have trotted out their two tiniest superheroes this weekend. But the pair made a pretty big impact. Ant-Man and the Wasp scurried about the cinematic landscape and dragged an estimated $76 million into Disney’s domestic anthill. Those aren’t quite Black Panther or Avengers numbers, admittedly, but it was more than enough […]