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Plugged In by Focus on the Family reviews the world of popular entertainment and gives families the essential tools they need to understand, navigate, and impact the culture. We equip families with Christian reviews of movies, TV shows, music, games, books, and YouTube channels. You’ll find award-winning articles and video discussions that spark intellectual thought, spiritual growth, and a desire to follow the command of Colossians 2:8: “See to it that no one takes you captive through hollow and deceptive philosophy, which depends on human tradition and the basic principles of this world rather than on Christ.”

Hellcats

Disney alumni Aly Michalka and Ashley Tisdale migrate to the CW for a sudsy soap centered on the sculpted abs, sexy dance moves and fierce squad rivalries that form the core of college cheerleading. (At least on TV.)

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Awkward.

UPDATED REVIEW: When MTV premiered The Hard Times of RJ Berger in 2010, network general manager Stephen Friedman said it “speaks to where we need to go as a network.” Awkward. now puts punctuation on his statement.

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Scrubs

Need another good reason to shape up, eat right and stay healthy? Scrubs is happy to serve up enough gross and crass hospital humor to keep half the country fit and trim—just to avoid the likes of Sacred Heart.

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The Grace Card

When it comes to race relations … and even murder,” justice won’t change our hearts.” So says The Grace Card, the freshman film from Memphis’ Calvary Church.

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Happy-Go-Lucky

A below-the-radar Brit flick that’s supposed to ‘put a smile on your face.’ In a filmscape dominated by the likes of ‘The Dark Knight,’ that got our attention. But we found out there’s more than one way to make yourself happy.

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Did You Hear About the Morgans?

Meryl and Paul have lively careers—but their marriage is almost six feet under. Can a mandatory stint away from NYC and their CrackBerries give them a better grip on matrimony?

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Four Christmases

All Vince Vaughn wants for Christmas is an island getaway—far away from family and foes. But this year fog throws a flag on the play.

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Nothing Like the Holidays

George Burns observed, “Happiness is having a large, loving, caring, close-knit family in another city.” But the Rodriguezes are all together in Chicago for Christmas. And they’re figuring out ways to make the best of it.

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The Spy Next Door

In The Pacifier 2, er, we mean The Spy Next Door, international spy and high-flying kung fu master Jackie Chan baby-sits his girlfriend’s gaggle.

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Yai Wanonabälewä: The Enemy God

Everyone knows Shake is destined for greatness in his primitive Venezuelan tribe. But no one realizes at first that it’s to live life as a Christian, not as an influential shaman.

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Saw 3D: The Final Chapter

John “Jigsaw” Kramer died in Saw III and he’s still making cameo appearances four movies later. But now he’s the least of the horrors awaiting victims—and moviegoers.

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Billy: The Early Years

He’s an globally famous evangelist and has been spiritual adviser to 10 U.S. presidents. This movie’s not interested in that, though. It wants to show us how Billy Graham fumbled through college.

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Eat Pray Love

Bored by your perfectly dreamy life that’s filled with food, shelter, granite countertops and white picket fences? Liz Gilbert sure was. So she walked away from it all for a year of globetrotting “self-discovery.”

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I Hope They Serve Beer in Hell

After his novel detailing a youth misspent on strippers, sex and booze bounced around on best-seller lists for years, Tucker Max is bringing his sordid, rotten self to the movies.

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Rachel Getting Married

Anne Hathaway tries her hand at playing a drug-addicted, mood-swinging calamity of a girl in this art-house flick devoted to being real—at any cost.

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