Contributor: Paul Asay

It’s about 78 degrees below zero where I live, which means it’s too cold to think, much less type. So I’m going to ask you to do the blog’s heavy lifting today while I drink a cup of hot chocolate. In the latest installment of my Not Just a Movie serie …

It was the same ol’, same ol’ at the box office this weekend, with The Blind Side trading places with The Twilight Saga: New Moon for slots No. 1 and 2, respectively. Brothers, the week’s biggest new release, slid into the No. 3 position with $9.7 mill …

Plugged In has passed the halfway point in my 584-part series on film and faith (well, it seemed that long while I wrote it), and this week’s installment is all about on-screen violence: what it is, what it does to us when we watch it and whether it’s …

We tried. We really tried to keep this blog an Adam Lambert-free zone in the wake of his American Music Awards appearance Nov. 22. But recently he said something perhaps as provocative as his awards performance. For those who missed the fracas, Lambert …

Tiana wants a restaurant. Prince Naveen wants to get married. But when they get mixed up in New Orleans-style Voodoo, both of their dreams seem to, um, croak in Disney’s return to classic-style animation.

Leave it to a vampire to drain us of our discretionary income. Recession? Pish. The Twilight Saga: New Moon powered to a staggering $140.7 million take at the box office this weekend, breaking all sorts of records and proving, yet again, that tween gir …

The Grammy-winning Zac Brown Band’s latest country hit delivers tear-jerking reflections from a father who laments the distance that separates him from his son.

Baltimore Ravens offensive lineman Michael Oher was a high school legend, college star and a 2009 No. 1 draft pick. But his life would never have played out that way had not one special family taken him under their wing.

The New Oxford American Dictionary, North America’s last word on words, recently named unfriend as its word of the year. It means, in dictionary parlance, “to remove someone from a social networking site.” But you already knew this. This annual announc …

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 …