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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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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: 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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.