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.

Not Easily Broken

Based on a T.D. Jakes book, ‘Not Easily Broken’ starts where most romance movies end. Turns out, perpetual bliss requires a lot of hard work.

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Step Brothers

Will Ferrell and that guy who directed ‘Anchorman’ and ‘Talladega Nights’ have decided to make another movie together. Um. Why?

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Thor: The Dark World

Marvel movies are as reliable as a six-pack of Coke: Every can tastes the same. That sounds disparaging, but I don’t mean it to.

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Definitely, Maybe

Sex ed leads to a lengthy sex talk between a dad and his 11-year-old daughter—about HIS love life.

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Last Vegas

Four acting legends go to Sin City to collect another paycheck, market a casino and create a salacious (but sometimes sweet) movie.

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The Mist

The weather report in Castle Rock, Maine: Foggy and gloomy. Showers of flesh-eating monsters likely. (What else could it be in a Stephen King movie?)

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Mr. Brooks

Can a serial killer be a nice guy, too? Kevin Costner’s Mr. Brooks seems to think so—and his imaginary friend (William Hurt) agrees.

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College

A superbad ode to sex and suds about high schoolers determined to party-hearty with the big boys on campus.

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Watchmen

‘Watchmen’ is being called the superhero movie of the year. We have a different take.

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The Counselor

There’s no country for old sin. That’s what The Counselor tells us. So why does it show us so much of it?

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Cadillac Records

Rock ‘n’ rollers didn’t invent sex and drugs. Actually, this biographical drama about Chess Records artists Muddy Waters, Little Walter, Howlin’ Wolf, Etta James and Chuck Berry makes the case that it was the other way around.

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Why Did I Get Married?

Bo knows baseball. And Tyler Perry knows melodrama. In his latest play-turned-movie, four couples clash at a Colorado retreat—and (mostly) come away better people than they were before.

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All Is Lost

All Is Lost is an intense movie, even without offering quantities of content (one f-word, a minimum of violence, no sex).

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The Fifth Estate

The Fifth Estate is a dense, ponderous (and sometimes foul) look at Julian Assange and the complex array of secrets he helped leak.

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I’m in Love With a Church Girl

I’m in Love With a Church Girl can give moviegoers a taste of what the beginnings of that God-given change can look like. A glimpse of the spiritual hope surrender to Christ provides.

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