Plugged In Movie Awards: Best Christian Movie
We close out our Plugged In Movie Awards nominations with our picks for best Christian movie, and man, what a tough year it was. Faith-based films have never been better, and Hollywood made it extra tricky to decide even what, exactly, constituted a Christian movie. Could Martin Scorsese’s Silence or Mel Gibson’s Hacksaw Ridge, both […]
Plugged In Movie Awards: Best Movie For Adults
Those Oscar voters have it made. To choose the best of the best based on sheer aesthetics—the writing, the acting, the cinematography—feels easy compared to the task set before us. In this category, we have to factor in ethics, morality and worldview, too. Sure, maybe a given film looks amazing. But what does it actually […]
Plugged In Movie Awards: Best Movie For Teens
Another day, another batch of nominees! This time we turn to movies for teens. It’s a perennially tricky category to pick for, and this year yields a truly eclectic mix of movies, pitting some of the year’s top-grossing flicks against a couple of little-seen gems. As always, read our full reviews before you or anyone […]
Plugged In Movie Awards: Best Movie For Kids
Ladies and gentlemen, it’s time to dust off your finest tuxedo T-shirt, sprinkle glitter on your hair and metaphorically walk down that red carpet with me (or whatever carpet/wood/tile/linoleum that might be nearby). It’s time for the fourth annual Plugged In Movie Awards! Or, at least, the nominations for said awards. Let’s not be too […]
Split Strikes Again
Despite three new movies hitting theaters this weekend, Split continues to dominate the box office with a rather ironic, single-minded aplomb. The M. Night Shyamalan thriller earned an estimated $26.3 million to escape with its second straight box office victory. That’s more than $1 million for each of the central character’s personalities! Not too bad, […]
Me, Mom and Mary Tyler Moore
Mary Tyler Moore, one of television’s true legends, died yesterday at the age of 80. She became a star as Laura Petrie, the beautiful, charming and occasionally hysterical wife of Rob Petrie on The Dick Van Dyke Show. But she became an icon for her self-titled sitcom as Mary Richards. And it’s in that role […]
Oscar Noms: Pretty Good?
Nominations for the 89th Academy Awards were rolled out early this morning. And for the next several days, the entertainment world will be wholly reactionary. Who got in? Who didn’t? Who got snubbed? Meryl Streep again?! We at Plugged In will be thinking and talking about the Oscars over the next month, too. But for […]
Split Decision
It was almost as if we had a sixth sense. We just knew that director M. Night Shyamalan just might see the top of the box office again with his creepy thriller Split. And sure enough, when all the box office receipts were counted, the signs pointed to the cinematic twisteroo making a visit to […]
Amazon’s Alexa Wants You to Have a Dollhouse
Ah, technology. Ain’t it grand? Just the other night, I asked my phone to look up directions to a movie theater, send a text and find a nearby restaurant, and poof! My little digital assistant, Siri, managed it all without a single hiccup. (It may text better than I do, frankly: I, in concert with […]
Go Figure: Hidden Figures Takes Another Win
We were braced for a big upheaval at the box office this weekend. A trio of fresh new movies hit theaters, and a handful of others, Oscar hopes still in tow, moved from the cozy enclaves of New York and Los Angeles and expanded wide across the country. Some serious turnover in the box office’s […]