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 […]
Culture Clips: The Peak TV Edition
Yes, 2017 still has its New Year smell. Nothing’s gone critically amiss yet, and we still have a little breathing room to ponder what happened in the year just gone by. And while perhaps we might differ on whether 2016 was good or bad, there’s one thing we can all agree on. We sure had […]
Rogue One Ices Disney’s Record Year
Perhaps Obi-Wan Kenobi had something to do with Disney’s record-setting year. Perhaps, unbeknownst to us, the old Jedi stood at the ticket booth as we moviegoers plunked down our money and gestured to Rogue One: A Star Wars Story. “This is the movie you’re looking for,” he’d say in that calming voice of his. “You […]
Pop Culture’s Top 10 Movers and Shakers (2016 Edition)
Well, not every year can be a winner. For many of us, 2016 was a time we’d rather forget. Everyone seemed so angry this year. We saw it in the nearly interminable election cycle. We saw it in the constant barrage of protests and counter-protests. Why, the atmosphere was so explosive this year that even […]
Gone, But Here
We’ve lost a lot of talented entertainers in 2016, from Alan Thicke to Zsa Zsa Gabor, from Muhammed Ali to David Bowie, from Prince to … well, too many more to mention. Earlier this week, Carrie Fisher died at the age of 60. Yesterday, her mother, Debbie Reynolds, passed away at age 84. Her son, […]
Rogue One Takes Two
Some say that the success of the new Star Wars movies is predicated on nostalgia: the affection we still feel for those beloved first Star Wars flicks made when CGI was just a random collection of letters and the only computer mouse around was the one that ate its way into a shipping box. So […]