Contributor: Paul Asay

Paul Asay has been part of the Plugged In staff since 2007, watching and reviewing roughly 15 quintillion movies and television shows. He’s written for a number of other publications, too, including Time, The Washington Post and Christianity Today. The author of several books, Paul loves to find spirituality in unexpected places, including popular entertainment, and he loves all things superhero. His vices include James Bond films, Mountain Dew and terrible B-grade movies. He’s married, has two children and a neurotic dog, runs marathons on occasion and hopes to someday own his own tuxedo. Feel free to follow him on Twitter @AsayPaul.

Maleficent

Disney’s most memorable villain returns, bent on all manner of wickedness. What can possibly stop this “mistress of all evil”? Could it be … love?

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Madea Goes to Jail

Tyler Perry’s famously abrasive alter ego does hard time. But that doesn’t mean she’s scared straight.

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Camp Rock 2: The Final Jam

It’s time for camp again, and these Disney rockers hope to make your stay a pleasant one. But it turns out that they have something more to share than just the best way to melt a s’more.

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Camp Rock

Saccharine was invented so we’d have an adjective to describe ‘Camp Rock.’ But Demi Lovato and the Jonas Brothers do manage to deliver a bit of nutrition along with the, uh, camp.

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The Brothers Solomon

Will Arnett and Will Forte want a baby so that they can make their dad proud. What they get is a 90-minute Saturday Night Live skit gone very, very wrong.

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Quantum of Solace

James Bond swills six martinis, beds one flustered agent and kills roughly 1,000,007 people during his latest—and darkest—onscreen romp.

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Old Dogs

Who are the dogs in this scenario? Robin Williams and John Travolta, who go all old-school slapstick on each other as the classic notion of a “family film” meets the messier modern world.

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Beastly

Belle wouldn’t have known whether to scream or laugh or faint if her beast had had so many tattoos. And even for Vanessa Hudgens it’s love at 8th sight.

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Mirror Mirror

Disney’s Snow White sang to birds and swept floors and slept a good long while in a glass coffin, waiting for her prince to arrive. This Snow White … well, she’s a little more determined and active than that.

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The Other Woman

This infidelity-meets-revenge comedy might make you start looking around for the other movie. Any other movie.

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Changeling

When Christine Collins’ little boy went missing March 10, 1928, she began to live out every parent’s worst fear. Clint Eastwood captures her nightmare on film.

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A Haunted House 2

In 1963’s The Haunting we’re told that “some houses are just born bad.” A Haunted House 2 insists that some movies are too.

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Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close

A little boy embarks on a quest that’ll take him across New York City. He thinks he’s looking for a lock that fits a mysterious key. But in truth he’s chasing his father—his father who died on 9/11.

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Letters to Juliet

They say love is for the young. But they are wrong. Letters to Juliet, wrapped around a lovelorn senior citizen and her two young chaperones, insists that true love never carries an expiration date.

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Feast of Love

Feast of love? Poisonous snack of infatuation and lust is more like it.

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