It’s the living vs. the undead in this gory horror thriller.
The other day I learned that fast-food kids’ meals may be even less healthy than I thought. Fries aside, and not counting greasy burgers, sugary drinks or those processed chicken nuggety things, it turns out something else in those colorful, puzzle-tat …
Lindsay Lohan is up to her old tricks again. Sadly, I’m not referring to the playful mischief that endeared her to us in 1998’s family comedy The Parent Trap. “I will be very surprised if she doesn’t go to jail,” criminal defense attorney Steve Cron to …
There’s something charming (and admittedly formulaic) about teams in conflict being pulled together by gifted critters. Such is the case in this movie.
Notorious crime boss Pops Romano will spend his final years in prison unless someone can infiltrate the FBI and destroy incriminating evidence. But who?
Acknowledging that a popular song, movie or TV show contains an element of “big-T” Truth is not the same as endorsing the entire product. Makes sense, right? Even so, I have to be careful how I talk about those little pop-culture epiphanies, and with w …
Cultures collide when a reclusive, Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist befriends a gifted black teenager. Basketball, books and the Bronx.
The juxtaposition of humor and horror puts this flick in a class with other modern B-movie yuk/yecch-fests including “Mars Attacks!” and “Tremors.”
Believe it or not, ‘Godzilla 2000’ is the 23rd film in this popular sci-fi series about a giant radioactive lizard that first stormed Tokyo in 1954.
What if the Bible actually contained strains of embedded code that could be deciphered by a sophisticated computer program, thereby revealing the whole of human history?
While not a particularly good movie, this Jackie Chan kung-fu vehicle is a more than responsible PG-13.
When I reflect on my nearly 20 years at Plugged In, one of my most memorable experiences has been interviewing the Lord of the Rings cast. I asked, “While working on these films, did you learn a life lesson that would be valuable for teenagers today?” …
A love story in reverse, written by Charlie Kaufman, best known for his work on the offbeat films “Being John Malkovich” and “Adaptation.”
