Sometimes I like to think I’m a pretty good person. That I’m aging gracefully, not grumpily. That I do a little better than average. That I give a little more come the end of each year. That I make fewer mistakes than the guys who sit next to me. And a …
I’ve been diligently digging through cause-and-effect stories about media for more than a decade and a half now. It’s sort of a Plugged In tradition, sometimes even an obsession to find connection points between entertainment and the way people act. We …
The late Douglas Adams, of The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy fame, wrote, “If it looks like a duck, and quacks like a duck, we have at least to consider the possibility that we have a small aquatic bird of the family anatidae on our hands.” How we ac …
Lance Armstrong is a cheater. The International Cycling Union says so, his teammates say so and 1,000 pages of documents say so. That makes me very, very sad. And maybe a little mad. But not everyone feels that way. In fact, some people don’t believe t …
I don’t have a Facebook page. And I’m starting to feel pretty bad about that. After all, out of the 2.5 billion or so folks who have Internet access on our planet, 1 billion of them now apparently have a Facebook page. Or maybe it’s only 900 million, i …
Think of “The Last Samurai” as “Braveheart” in Japan, and you’ll be close to grasping what brand of war epic this movie is.
It wasn’t what he said that got me. It was that he hadn’t noticed before. Stephen Simon, a movie producer whose credits include What Dreams May Come and Bill & Ted’s Excellent Adventure, was horrified recently when he noticed a mother who had broug …
It wasn’t his first movie, but chances are that the first time you saw Mandy Patinkin was in The Princess Bride. He was Inigo Montoya, the drunken swordsman whose only purpose in life was to catch and kill the six-fingered man. And his famous lines are …
The democratic government of Nigeria collapses in this fictional drama, leaving the country in the ruthless hands of a military dictator.
At the intersection of 17 randomly selected story lines, you’ll find a suitcase. Inside that suitcase rests a nuclear bomb.
A low-key Will Ferrell stars as a man who’s about to be killed by a novelist’s exclamation point. He can hear her narrating voice. And what she’s saying doesn’t bode well for him.
Bored with the drudgery and confinements of extreme wealth, Thomas Crown needs some excitement…
David is plagued by dreams. Nightmares, really. He’s not always sure where his nocturnal fantasies end and his day-to-day life begins. Moviegoers will be even less sure than he is.
