Perhaps Groot should change his signature catchphrase to “I am money.”

Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3 is making plenty of it, after all, and few had doubts that it’d repeat as box-office champion...

Game Over. Sorry Mario and Luigi, but much like my older sisters used to boot me off our Nintendo 64, the Guardians have arrived to kick off the summer and shove The Super Mario Bros. Movie out of...

Peter Pan: the play, the book, the boy who wouldn’t grow up, the inspiration for this list.

Author and playwright J.M. Barrie first wrote about Peter in The Little White Bird in 1902. Then, he transformed...

LISTEN TO THE PLUGGED IN SHOW, EPISODE 180 Sometimes, parents might want to quit the social media safari. Every time we get used to one platform, two new ones spring out of the jungle. And when it seems...

Level 4 complete, and we’re getting close to a high score.

For the fourth-straight weekend, The Super Mario Bros. Movie jumped the field, raced to the castle and pulled down a box-office victory....

LISTEN TO THE PLUGGED IN SHOW, EPISODE 179 When I was a little kid, my mom would sometimes take me to a local theater to watch old, old, old movies. So when a film from The Thin Man series was playing,...

When I say “Christian movie,” what comes to your mind?

The Passion of the Christ certainly pops into mine. Perhaps it’s followed by God’s Not Dead or The Case for Christ. Recent moviegoers...

Level three complete.

The Super Mario Bros. Movie seems to have snagged one of those yellow smiling stars. For three-straight weeks, the animated film has been practically invincible, outracing everyone...

LISTEN TO THE PLUGGED IN SHOW, EPISODE 178 Sure, we read. We read all the time. In fact, you’re probably reading right now!

But as entertaining as this blog may be, we don’t necessarily read...

If you’ve been paying attention to recent news, you may have heard of some top secret documents leaked recently on the communications platform Discord. The documents were photographs first shared by...

Level two complete.

Despite a bevy of new competitors at the box office, it was another no-doubter sort of weekend for The Super Mario Bros. Movie. Mario and Luigi took the Rainbow Road all the way...

LISTEN TO THE PLUGGED IN SHOW, EPISODE 177 Your preschoolers are screaming. You have stuff to do. You decide to cash in some of your children’s allotted TV time before you drive each other crazy....

High score, anyone?

The Super Mario Bros. Movie collected a staggering number of coins on its run to the box-office castle, karting away $146 million in North America alone during the traditional...

Editor’s note: This is an updated version of a blog that originally ran last year.

Today is Good Friday, one of the most sacred days on the Christian calendar—a day when we commemorate Jesus’...

LISTEN TO THE PLUGGED IN SHOW, EPISODE 176 Hey, we all make mistakes, right? And that might be especially true in this ever-changing entertainment world we live in. It’s not easy to balance what we’d...

March went out like a lion. Or, at least it did for Paramount Pictures, the distributor behind Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves.

Honor Among Thieves, an adventure caper based on the dice-based...

LISTEN TO THE PLUGGED IN SHOW, EPISODE 175 Back when I was growing up in the 1980s, Dungeons & Dragons was on a lot of parents’ no-no list. It wasn’t quite on the level of, say, playing heavy-metal...

I was thinking about John Wick this weekend.

If you’re not familiar with that character, he’s a former assassin played by 58-year-old actor Keanu Reeves. The plots of the John Wick movies are...

John Wick is a man of few words. But if money talks, his movies say a mouthful.

Much like its main character, John Wick: Chapter 4 mowed down its competitors and roared to a $73.5 million opening...

We’re in the middle of Lent right now, which is a great opportunity for us to dive into movies or television shows that focus on Jesus—His life, His death and His game-changing resurrection. You’ve...