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Movie Review: The Marvels

The Marvels has some of the MCU’s typical problems, including language and violence. But it’s got a surprisingly sweet side, too. Read the Plugged In Review If you've listened to any of our podcasts, please give us your feedback.

Feb 12, 20241 min

Movie Review: Turning Red

This animated Pixar movie about adolescence and puberty originally streamed on Disney+ in 2022. Now it’s getting the theatrical release it never had, telling the story of a Chinese-Canadian teen who turns into a raging red panda when she gets angry. Read the Plugged In Review If you've listened to any of our podcasts, please give us your feedback.

Feb 9, 20242 min

TV Review: All Creatures Great and Small.

If you’re in the mood for a brief escape from modern life, welcome to the charming country world of Darrowby. Read the Plugged In Review If you've listened to any of our podcasts, please give us your feedback.

Feb 8, 20241 min

The Screen in Your Pocket: Say, Yes!

Have you ever considered ways that you could creatively say yes to your kids’ requests? Read the Plugged In Review If you've listened to any of our podcasts, please give us your feedback.

Feb 7, 20241 min

Pop Culture Remix: The Labors of Hercules Beal

Hercules must reenact the labors of his namesake and consider their meaning along the way. Read the Plugged In Review If you've listened to any of our podcasts, please give us your feedback.

Feb 6, 20241 min

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.

Feb 5, 20241 min

Movie Review: Argylle

Argylle is restrained compared to some of its cinematic brethren. But the content might still have families longing for an ejector seat. Read the Plugged In Review If you've listened to any of our podcasts, please give us your feedback.

Feb 2, 20242 min

The Screen in Your Pocket: Roblox Unsupervised

So, should you let your kids play the Roblox game unsupervised? Read the Plugged In Blog If you've listened to any of our podcasts, please give us your feedback.

Jan 31, 20241 min

Pop Culture Remix: SteamWorld Build

Those who enjoy building sims will find fun in them thar SteamWorld hills. Read the Plugged In Review If you've listened to any of our podcasts, please give us your feedback.

Jan 30, 20241 min

Movie Review: Aquaman and the Lost Kingdom

The final DCEU movie features action and heroism aplenty … as well as violence and profanity that feel anything but heroic. Read the Plugged In Review If you've listened to any of our podcasts, please give us your feedback.

Jan 29, 20241 min

Movie Review: Freud’s Last Session

Psychologist Sigmund Freud and Christin thinker C.S. Lewis never met. But this movie imagines the kind of philosophical and theological conversation they could’ve had if they had connected in London in the late 1930s. Read the Plugged In Review If you've listened to any of our podcasts, please give us your feedback.

Jan 26, 20242 min

TV Review: Percy Jackson and the Olympians

Mythological creatures and beliefs come center stage, along with friendship, family and purpose in Disney’s Percy Jackson and the Olympians. Read the Plugged In Review If you've listened to any of our podcasts, please give us your feedback.

Jan 25, 20241 min

The Screen in Your Pocket: TikTok’s Changing Rules

TikTok is changing its rules. Will that inform your choices? Read the Plugged In Blog If you've listened to any of our podcasts, please give us your feedback.

Jan 24, 20241 min

Pop Culture Remix: Smosh

The trailblazing YouTube channel Smosh is still around, and it’s still got some concerns parents will want to note. Read the Plugged In Review If you've listened to any of our podcasts, please give us your feedback.

Jan 23, 20241 min

Movie Review: Maboroshi

Maboroshi raises questions about being alive and using one’s precious time. But the anime trip is a strange one. Read the Plugged In Review If you've listened to any of our podcasts, please give us your feedback.

Jan 22, 20241 min

Movie Review: Lift

Kevin Hart stars in this PG-13 action-comedy heist flick that’s full of familiar genre tropes, as well as violence, profanity and suggestive content. Read the Plugged In Review If you've listened to any of our podcasts, please give us your feedback.

Jan 19, 20242 min

Tv Review: Dragons of Wonderhatch

For those searching for an epic, fantastical adventure, you could do a lot worse than this live action/animation hybrid. Read the Plugged In Review If you've listened to any of our podcasts, please give us your feedback.

Jan 18, 20241 min

The Screen in Your Pocket: Kids’ Phone Use Increases

According to a new survey, 46% of teens say they’re are online “almost constantly.” Wanna know more? Read the Plugged In Blog If you've listened to any of our podcasts, please give us your feedback.

Jan 17, 20241 min

Pop Culture Remix: A First Time for Everything

Dan learns to be himself on a trip to Europe in this National Book Award winner. Read the Plugged In Review If you've listened to any of our podcasts, please give us your feedback.

Jan 16, 20241 min

Movie Review: Journey to Bethlehem

Journey to Bethlehem is the Nativity story crossed with High School Musical. And it kind of works. Read the Plugged In Review If you've listened to any of our podcasts, please give us your feedback.

Jan 15, 20241 min

Movie Review: Mean Girls

This remake of the 2004 cult-classic film of the same name satirizes high school girls vying for supremacy in their fiercely policed pecking order, mixing positive lessons about bullying with a lot of suggestive content along the way. Read the Plugged In Review If you've listened to any of our podcasts, please give us your feedback.

Jan 12, 20242 min

TV Review: My Life with the Walter Boys

This Netflix drama about a teen girl who has moved from NYC to Colorado features enough adolescent angst to electrify a small city Read the Plugged In Review If you've listened to any of our podcasts, please give us your feedback.

Jan 11, 20241 min

The Screen in Your Pocket: The Right Age for Kids and Screens

When’s the best age for kids to get screens? Read the Plugged In Blog If you've listened to any of our podcasts, please give us your feedback.

Jan 10, 20241 min

Pop Culture Remix: Avatars: Frontiers of Pandora

Frontiers of Pandora lets you fly through its beautiful world. But it has plenty of angry things to say about … you. Read the Plugged In Review If you've listened to any of our podcasts, please give us your feedback.

Jan 9, 20241 min

Movie Review: Soul

Soul strives to help us remember that life itself is a blessing, even when it doesn’t go as we planned. It tells us that lives of service can be just as rewarding as lives on stage. Read the Plugged In Review If you've listened to any of our podcasts, please give us your feedback.

Jan 8, 20241 min

Movie Review: The Color Purple

This remake of Alice Walker’s critically acclaimed novel tells a redemptive story that’s also full of content concerns that push the boundaries of this movie’s PG-13 rating. Read the Plugged In Review If you've listened to any of our podcasts, please give us your feedback.

Jan 5, 20241 min

TV Review: Julia

While Julia’s compelling story might entice some viewers, others will find the profanity, alcohol, and sexual content unpalatable. Read the Plugged In Review If you've listened to any of our podcasts, please give us your feedback.

Jan 4, 20241 min

The Screen in Your Pocket: Open AI Can Speak, Hear and See

Have you thought about how Open AI’s latest changes impact your family? Read the Plugged In Blog If you've listened to any of our podcasts, please give us your feedback.

Jan 3, 20241 min

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.

Jan 2, 20241 min

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.

Jan 1, 20241 min

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.

Dec 29, 20232 min

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.

Dec 28, 20231 min

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.

Dec 27, 20231 min

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.

Dec 26, 20231 min

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.

Dec 25, 20231 min

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.

Dec 22, 20232 min

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.

Dec 21, 20231 min

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.

Dec 20, 20231 min

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.

Dec 19, 20231 min

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.

Dec 18, 20231 min

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.

Dec 15, 20232 min

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.

Dec 14, 20231 min

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.

Dec 13, 20231 min

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.

Dec 12, 20231 min

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.

Dec 11, 20231 min

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.

Dec 8, 20232 min

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.

Dec 7, 20231 min

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.

Dec 6, 20231 min

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.

Dec 5, 20231 min

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.

Dec 4, 20231 min