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Movie Monday: Dark of the Box Office

You can’t keep a good machine down. Transformers: Dark of the Moon flew down to earth and claimed everything it saw for its own clanky

Movie Monday: Cars 2

So what if it suffered a couple of critical dings? So what if reviewers thought Pixar’s newest animated vehicle didn’t hum quite as smoothly as

Movie Monday: Green Lantern

Green Lantern’s mighty ring of power can do many wondrous things. But it couldn’t generate much excitement at the ol’ movieplex this weekend. Oh sure,

A Father’s Close Encounter

You’ve gotta love it when one of the most powerful men in Hollywood is humble enough to second-guess a decades-old creative decision and, in doing

Movie Monday: Super Bummer Weekend

It was a middling weekend at the box office—both in terms of the offerings moviegoers might hope to find there and the returns those films

Marveling at a One-Rating World

“Is the PG-13 rating helping or hurting families?” That’s the question I posed in an article published in Plugged In magazine in the summer of

Movie Monday: X-Men First

Just because X-Men was the fittest of the flock and more than just survived the weekend box office race does not mean that Darwin was

Movie Tuesday: The Hangover Part II

The box office derby sent us Plugged In movie reviewers searching for Alka-Seltzer over the Memorial Day holiday weekend. It kinda made us feel a

Aaarrr! Hornswaggled!

When I was a kid, I thought pirates were pretty nifty. They had eye patches, peg legs, cool parrots (who might also have eye patches

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