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Pop Culture Remix: Alisa Childers
Alisa Childers warns about the dangers of compromising the truth of God’s Word with contemporary cultural sentiment. Read the Plugged In Review If you've listened to any of our podcasts, please give us your feedback.

Movie Review: Guillermo del Toro’s Pinocchio
It has a few wooden moments. But in Oscar winner Guillermo del Toro’s hands, Pinocchio, our puppet protagonist, dances. Read the Plugged In Review If you've listened to any of our podcasts, please give us your feedback.

Movie Review: The Boys in the Boat
George Clooney directs this gritty underdog story about a team of rowers who make it to the Olympics in 1936. There’s lots to like here, but it still has some content ripples that families will have to navigate. Read the Plugged In Review If you've listened to any of our podcasts, please give us your feedback.

TV Review: Squid Game: The Challenge
Unlike the South Korean drama on which it’s based, no one dies in this reality show. But that’s almost the only good thing we can say. Read the Plugged In Review If you've listened to any of our podcasts, please give us your feedback.

The Screen in Your Pocket: The Disney and Hulu Reboot
There’s nothing special about Disney anymore. Just another media behemoth aiming images and messages at young minds and hearts. Read the Plugged In Review If you've listened to any of our podcasts, please give us your feedback.

Pop Culture Remix: Percy Jackson and the Olympians: The Chalice of the Gods
Percy must complete yet another quest to get closer to being accepted to college. Read the Plugged In Review If you've listened to any of our podcasts, please give us your feedback.

Movie Review: The Family Plan
Ironically, Mark Wahlberg’s True Lies-esque action flick The Family Plan may not be the best movie-night plan for families. Read the Plugged In Review If you've listened to any of our podcasts, please give us your feedback.

Movie Review: Migration
The latest animated kids’ movie from Illumination Entertainment takes flight in theaters this week, and its old-fashioned storytelling thankfully won’t have families ducking for cover. Read the Plugged In Review If you've listened to any of our podcasts, please give us your feedback.

TV Review: Work It Out Wombats!
PBS presents a series designed for early preschool kids that focuses on computational thinking, kindness and problem solving–with one cultural glitch. Read the Plugged In Review If you've listened to any of our podcasts, please give us your feedback.

The Screen in Your Pocket: Bentkey
What Is Bentkey? The Daily Wire’s Newest Streaming Service Aimed at Kids. Read the Plugged In Review If you've listened to any of our podcasts, please give us your feedback.

Pop Culture Remix: Super Mario Bros. Wonder
It’s new, it’s colorful, it’s bouncy and fun. But parents of younger players may need to bounce into the game themselves. Read the Plugged In Review If you've listened to any of our podcasts, please give us your feedback.

Movie Review: Chicken Run: Dawn of the Nugget
Chicken Run: Dawn of the Nugget won’t make Chick-fil-A happy. But everyone else? This might be a film worth dipping into. Read the Plugged In Review If you've listened to any of our podcasts, please give us your feedback.

Movie Review: Wonka
This prequel starring Timothy Chalamet as Willy Wonka imagines, with only a few slightly sour moments, what the Candy Man’s origin story might have been. Read the Plugged In Review If you've listened to any of our podcasts, please give us your feedback.

TV Review: Everyone Else Burns
Everyone Else Burns is a comedy about a doomsday cult with a big emphasis on works and little to do about faith. Read the Plugged In Review If you've listened to any of our podcasts, please give us your feedback.

The Screen in Your Pocket: Which Parental Controls
Been wondering about parental controls for … everything? Plugged in can help Read the Plugged In Blog If you've listened to any of our podcasts, please give us your feedback.

Pop Culture Remix: 1989 (Taylor’s Version)
Taylor Swift’s album, 1989 (Taylor’s Version), features five songs from the vault that are not profane, but sensual and occasionally graphic. Read the Plugged In Review If you've listened to any of our podcasts, please give us your feedback.

Movie Review: Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Mutant Mayhem
Despite being a solid entry into the TMNT franchise, Mutant Mayhem has some surprisingly dark moments for a kids movie. Read the Plugged In Review If you've listened to any of our podcasts, please give us your feedback.

Movie Review: The Boy and the Heron
The latest movie from Japanese anime icon Hayao Miyazaki is a beautiful fever dream that explores the themes of grief and loss in a fantastical setting. Read the Plugged In Review If you've listened to any of our podcasts, please give us your feedback.

TV Review: Curses!
In order to right a generational wrong, the Vanderhouven family must return a plethora of stolen cursed items. Read the Plugged In Review If you've listened to any of our podcasts, please give us your feedback.

The Screen in Your Pocket: Addressing AI
Between new government regulations, chaos at OpenAI, and more and more reports of cheating via AI-generated content, AI is November’s top tech trend. Read the Plugged In Blog If you've listened to any of our podcasts, please give us your feedback.

Pop Culture Remix: Family Friendly
Don’t be fooled by this YouTube channel’s name—Family Friendly is anything but. Read the Plugged In Review If you've listened to any of our podcasts, please give us your feedback.

Movie Review: Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny
While still plenty violent and filled with drinking and smoking, the Dial of Destiny does dial the content back a bit Read the Plugged In Review If you've listened to any of our podcasts, please give us your feedback.

Movie Review: Candy Cane Lane
Eddie Murphy’s family-oriented Christmas movie on Amazon Prime has some nice messages, but it also comes with a bit more content than we’d normally expect in a PG movie. Read the Plugged In Review If you've listened to any of our podcasts, please give us your feedback.

TV Review: All the Light We Cannot See
Netflix takes a lyrical novel and turns it into a clunky, sometimes crass miniseries. Once again, the book is better. Read the Plugged In Review If you've listened to any of our podcasts, please give us your feedback.

The Screen in Your Pocket: Meta is Being Sued
Meta is being sued over its kid-addicting features. Read the Plugged In Review If you've listened to any of our podcasts, please give us your feedback.

Pop Culture Remix: Cocoon
Cocoon is an alien bug-focused puzzler designed to get your brain humming and clicking … without driving you buggy. Read the Plugged In Review If you've listened to any of our podcasts, please give us your feedback.

Movie Review: My Big Fat Greek Wedding 3
There are some big fat messages about family right alongside some big fat sexual content issues in My Big Fat Greek Wedding 3. Read the Plugged In Review If you've listened to any of our podcasts, please give us your feedback.

Movie Review: Wish
Though filled with references to Disney’s past triumphs, Wish itself comes with unexpected problems and a lack of inspiration. Read the Plugged In Review If you've listened to any of our podcasts, please give us your feedback.

Movie Review: A Wonderful Day with Mabel Maclay
For parents wary of agendas in children’s entertainment, A Wonderful Day With Mabel Maclay is something they can allow their children to watch without wringing their hands. Read the Plugged In Review If you've listened to any of our podcasts, please give us your feedback.

The Screen in Your Pocket: Discord Safety Features
Did you hear that Discord has new safety features? Read the Plugged In Blog If you've listened to any of our podcasts, please give us your feedback.

Pop Culture Remix: Schafrillas Productions
Whether it’s Disney, Pixar or DreamWorks, Schaffrillas Productions provides his candid and sometime crude reviews. Read the Plugged In Review If you've listened to any of our podcasts, please give us your feedback.

Movie Review: Leo
Adam Sandler’s Leo is meant for kids. But while it has some good messages, Sandler’s jokes might be more juvenile than his audience. Read the Plugged In Review If you've listened to any of our podcasts, please give us your feedback.

Movie Review: The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes
A grim storyline paired with disturbing (but predictable) brutality and bloodshed involving teens offers families plenty of reasons to pass on this painful Hunger Games prequel. Read the Plugged In Review If you've listened to any of our podcasts, please give us your feedback.

TV Review: Pluto
Pluto is a compelling tale. But like its planetary counterpart, it won’t be the warmest watch. Read the Plugged In Review If you've listened to any of our podcasts, please give us your feedback.

The Screen in Your Pocket: Shorter Attention Spans
Our attention spans are getting shorter and shorter. Ever wonder why? Read the Plugged In Blog If you've listened to any of our podcasts, please give us your feedback.

Pop Culture Remix: The Lamplighters League
There’s much more to the stylish Lamplighters League than you might expect: both great and not-so-great. Read the Plugged In Review If you've listened to any of our podcasts, please give us your feedback.

Movie Review: Sound of Freedom
Angel Studios’ ‘Sound of Freedom,’ starring Jim Caviezel, shines a light on the horror of sex trafficking. Read the Plugged In Review If you've listened to any of our podcasts, please give us your feedback.

Movie Review: The Marvels
The latest MCU movie features three female superheroes teaming up to take down an equally fierce female opponent in a film with plenty of action, a bit of profanity and some surprisingly sweet friendship moments. Read the Plugged In Review If you've listened to any of our podcasts, please give us your feedback.

TV Review: Frasier
Frasier is back, this time on Paramount+. And it seems both the humor and content issues are right on par with the original. Read the Plugged In Review If you've listened to any of our podcasts, please give us your feedback.

The Screen in Your Pocket: Is AI Ready?
Is AI ready to give us its point of view? And should we be listening? Read the Plugged In Review If you've listened to any of our podcasts, please give us your feedback.

Pop Culture Remix: All the Light We Cannot See
The lives of Marie-Laure LeBlanc, a blind Parisian refugee, and Werner Pfenning, a Nazi soldier, intertwine in France during World War II. Read the Plugged In Review If you've listened to any of our podcasts, please give us your feedback.

Movie Review: Gran Turismo
Video game fans hoping for a family-friendly outing should pump the brakes a bit to avoid Gran Turismo’s unexpected obstacles. Read the Plugged In Review If you've listened to any of our podcasts, please give us your feedback.

Movie Review: Inspector Sun
This quirky animated murder-mystery movie is ostensibly aimed at kids … even as it borrows detective-story tropes that aren’t always family friendly. Read the Plugged In Review If you've listened to any of our podcasts, please give us your feedback.

TV Review: Loki
This show can be fun and surprisingly thoughtful. But like Loki himself, its story and themes shouldn’t go unchallenged. Read the Plugged In Review If you've listened to any of our podcasts, please give us your feedback.

The Screen in Your Pocket: Glued to the Screen
Screen-based worries aren’t going anywhere. They’ll be with us as long as screens themselves are. But parents are not powerless. Read the Plugged In Review If you've listened to any of our podcasts, please give us your feedback.

Pop Culture Remix: Streaming Service Tutorials
Did you know that Plugged In has a variety of tutorials and safety tips for streaming services? Read the Plugged In Review If you've listened to any of our podcasts, please give us your feedback.

Movie Review: Blue Beetle
Blue Beetle flies in with a lot of potential but ultimately leaves comic book fans—and those who like a good movie—feeling blue. Read the Plugged In Review If you've listened to any of our podcasts, please give us your feedback.

Movie Review: Five Nights at Freddy’s
This PG-13 horror-comedy mashup based on a hugely popular video game surprisingly isn’t as quite nasty as we expected. That said, it’s not exactly sunshine and daisies either. Read the Plugged In Review If you've listened to any of our podcasts, please give us your feedback.

TV Review: Krapopolis
If the title, Krapopolis, wasn’t hint enough, be warned. Fox’s adult animation comedy contains crass humor, profanity and sexual content. Read the Plugged In Review If you've listened to any of our podcasts, please give us your feedback.

The Screen in Your Pocket: Meta Chatbots
Because of the drop in younger users, Meta is utilizing chatbots to entice teenagers into using Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp. Read the Plugged In Review If you've listened to any of our podcasts, please give us your feedback.