Contributor: Paul Asay

With its new album certified gold in just four weeks, Casting Crowns isn’t just one of the most popular Christian bands around, it’s one of the most popular bands—period.

Just call them the Meep Generation. A bunch of kids from Danvers (Mass.) High School nearly hopped into (ahem) a beaker full of hot water when they used the word meep as a method of social disruption. Meep, to my ear, seems an odd sort of rallying cry …

Disaster. No, I’m not talking about my hair. I’m talking about movies, people. The film industry has been on a disaster kick lately, and in the last couple of years we’ve seen the world destroyed (or, at the very least, seriously threatened) by monster …

First, it was aliens. Then it was climate change. Now Roland Emmerich is again destroying the world … through ancient Mayan prophecy. What in the world does this guy have against our world? Did it beat him up at recess or something?

Rock the boat? We all know what happens when you do that. But what happens when you throw a bunch of boat-rockers onto a boat born to rock? It sinks, of course.

It’s November now, and here at Plugged In that means we’re on the cusp of Oscar season. Films with Academy Awards aspirations are starting to trickle into the the theaters, and those sorts of films present all manner of opportunities and challenges for …

Forget G.I. Joe. A few folks in the military once believed the future soldier wouldn’t be armed with gadgets and gizmos but with super-psychic senses. (If you can see where this review is going, Uncle Sam might need you.)

True stories of hideous alien abductions in Nome, Alaska! And this movie’s got the pictures to prove it. (They’re not doctored or concocted, are they? They wouldn’t do that to news footage, would they?)

So, I just finished writing my review of Pirate Radio (don’t look for it right away, though — the movie doesn’t come out until Nov. 13), and from the Plugged In perspective, it had all sorts of problems: Sex, drugs, anarchistic … you know, all the p …

If you look at Plugged In’s home page “rotator” today, you’ll notice a big picture of a candle grasped between two fingers. It’s a pretty cool picture for what, I hope, you’ll think is a pretty decent story—the first of an 8-part series (titled “Not Ju …

What would Hannah Montana say? Reigning teen queen Miley Cyrus has been named as the “worst celebrity of the year” by the readers of AOL’s teen-centric pop culture website, jsyk.com, beating out such celebrities as Kanye West and Britney Spears. The re …

A couple of days ago, Adam Holz wrote a post called “When Weather Attacks.” So I’m blaming him for the winter storm that dumped a few inches of snow on my house last night. It wasn’t too bad, as October storms go. And it’s really not fall in Colorado S …

The weekly box office wrap-up is one of the most-discussed but, really, most-misleading pulse points for our culture. Every week, media outlets across the land report how much money the weekend’s biggest films took in and try to figure out where we are …

Some teens get jobs at McDonald’s. Some land gigs at movie theaters. Darren decides his dream job is working for a bloodsucking spider charmer. How will that look on his résumé?

Vampires are draining. I just got finished watching a couple of episodes of CW’s The Vampire Diaries for a television review. Tonight, I’m going to a screening of Cirque du Freak: The Vampire’s Assistant. Entertainment media is buzzing over the next on …