Contributor: Steven Isaac

The Life of David Gale

Part snuff film, part murder mystery, part suspenseful thriller, part political treatise, ‘David Gale’ tantalizes intelligent audiences with the implication that it will inspire myriad discussions about the pros and cons of capital punishment, then flogs them with barbarism and lust.

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Avatar

Fifteen years in the making, James Cameron’s latest creation is an eye-popping spectacle of conflict between idyllic aliens and greedy humans—saturated with environmental and spiritual themes.

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The Road

Cormac McCarthy’s Pulitzer Prize-winning story of utmost tenderness and utter brutality inserts a man and his son into a desperately treacherous post-apocalyptic world.

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Forget About Fangs, ‘Twilight 2’ Is All About the Abs

The line snaked around the lobby, out the door and around the corner of the theater. Music blared from competing radio stations booths. There were still two hours to go before the advance screening for The Twilight Saga: New Moon started in Denver. I k …

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An Education

Sixteen-year-old Jenny wants more verve in her life than her staid English schoolgirl existence is delivering. Her salvation seems to arrive in charming sophisticate David, a man more than twice her age.

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3, 2, 1, Launch!

In the dark ages of 1990 when Focus on the Family launched what would soon become Plugged In, Edison’s light bulb was the light bulb, maps were made of paper, MySpace was what you violated in a crowded elevator, and even websites were, for most of us, …

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Brüno

What’s an Alabama youth pastor doing in a Hollywood sleazefest like this? We decided to find out.

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