A Conversation With Kevin Sorbo
Once upon on a time way back in the last millennium, actor Kevin Sorbo visited many a living room weekly via his popular action-adventure series Hercules: The Legendary Journeys. These days, though, he’s often in movies that focus on another kind of adventure—a spiritual one. Sorbo’s latest faith-based film, Let There Be Light, lands in […]
Culture Clips: Train Up a Child …
It may not be as famous as John 3:16, but the counsel in Proverbs 22:6 is right up there when it comes to most-frequently quoted Bible verses: “Train up a child in the way he should go; even when he is old he will not depart from it.” And some new research suggests that this […]
A Conversation With Miles Teller
The movie Only the Brave—which documents the true story of an Arizona wildfire that tragically killed 19 wildland firefighters in June 2013—opens in theaters this weekend. And I recently had a chance to sit down with one of the movie’s stars, Miles Teller (Allegiant, Fantastic Four, Footloose), to talk about his role in the film. […]
Culture Clips: Distracted to Death?
Today’s vehicles are packed with more safety and collision-avoidance technology than ever before. But traffic-related deaths in the United States have nevertheless risen sharply over the last two years, up 14.4% after decades of generally trending downward. Curiously, certain kinds of folks are increasingly prone to be involved in fatal car accidents than others: pedestrians, […]
Culture Clips: How True Are ‘Based on a True Story’ Movies?
We’ve seen it many times at the outset of a movie: “Based on a True Story.” And if you’re taking a careful look at what’s in multiplexes this week, you might notice that many films being screened right now deliver a version of that statement. Stronger, which opened last week and rolls wider this week, […]
Kingsman: Golden Circle Lassos IT
It’s usually good to be the king. And so it is for Kingsman: Golden Circle, which relegated IT to second place at the box office over the weekend. This Bond-esque, R-rated sequel to 2014’s Kingsman: The Secret Service outpaced the original in its debut, taking in an estimated $39 million en route to its No. […]
Vodcast: Meet Mully
How much difference can one person really make? The forthcoming documentary Mully addresses that question with the story of one remarkable man’s life and the transformative influence it has had on the nation of Kenya. Charles Mully certainly didn’t look like a good candidate to impact thousands of lives. Abandoned by his family at the […]
Introducing the Bothie
Virtually every smartphone sold these days comes equipped with cameras on both sides. The one facing the user, of course, has given rise to the now-ubiquitous selfie. (And, for me at least, it’s also given rise to startled moments where I accidentally ended up with an image of myself onscreen while trying to take pics […]
As the TV Turns …
My family joined the 21st century last week. No, no, we didn’t just crawl out of a time capsule. Rather, we finally bade farewell to our ’90s-era CRT TV. You know, the kind that kill backs to move and would literally kill someone if you dropped it on them. We replaced it with a snazzy […]
So You Wanna Buy a Direwolf …
Plugged In has tracked plenty of correlations between entertainment and its influence on our real-world values. We’ve regularly looked at what scientists have to say about the potential links between our media habits and our choices in areas such as sex, smoking and alcohol usage. But sometimes those links show up in ways that are […]