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Take a minute to hear a family-friendly review of the hottest movie, YouTube video, streaming series, video game, or new technology to help you decide if it’s a good choice for your kids and family. Hosted by Focus on the Family’s media and culture analysts, these reviews for parents offer a fresh Christian perspective on entertainment from a Biblical worldview.

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Screen in Your Pocket: School Gave My Kid a Screen Aug 05, 2020

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How do you deal with a screen the school hands out?

Movie Review: Kane Brown - Be Like That Aug 04, 2020

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Kane Brown is joined by Swae Lee and Khalid on this feel good song with a handful of not-so-feel-good moments.

Movie Review: The Larva Island Movie Aug 03, 2020

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Think of it as a poor-man’s Minions cartoon with a lot less, well, funny stuff.

Movie Review: The Kissing Booth 2 Jul 31, 2020

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In the new Netflix sequel The Kissing Booth 2, viewers are reunited with teen lovers Elle and Noah, who first connected romantically two years ago. Now, Noah’s off to Harvard, while Elle’s navigating her senior year of high school. She misses her man desperately, and she fears he may be seduced by more experienced women at college.
Soon, though, Elle’s got a new problem—a newcomer named Marco who’s providing Elle with a tempting possibility of her own. But there’s more. Elle wants to join Noah at Harvard. But her only chance is winning a dance competition with Marco as her partner. Talk about teen drama.
The Kissing Booth 2 is rated TV-14. But this Netflix movie’s teen characters act more like they’re 28. Physical intimacy is a given. Consequences of that activity are nowhere in sight. And while we don’t actually see a lot of it, there’s no question what’s happening here between Elle and Noah, as well as other characters (including some same gender pairings). Profanity, underage drinking and completely clueless parents add to this movie’s many concerns, especially since it’s definitely targeting a young teen audience. For those reasons, we’re giving The Kissing Booth 2 a 1 out of 5 for family friendliness.

TV Review: DC Super Hero Girls Jul 30, 2020

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Sure, these high schoolers sometimes have to take down the bad guys. But they’re more about lifting up each other.

Screen in Your Pocket: Young Kids and Screens Jul 29, 2020

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What guidelines work best for young kids and screens?

Track Review: Lamb of God - Lamb of God Jul 28, 2020

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The group detests injustice. But it doesn’t deliver a redemptive alternative in this pulverizing collection of metal tracks.

Movie Review: Ip Man 4: The Finale Jul 27, 2020

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Comes with a few controversies, but it’s also a heartwarming tale.

Movie Review: Radioactive Jul 24, 2020

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The new movie Radioactive, now streaming online, paints a portrait of Marie Curie. As the 19th century rolled into the 20th, this Polish-born French researcher met and married fellow scientist Pierre Curie. Together, they discovered the elements radium and polonium. Their work, of course, formed the foundation for advances such as the X-ray machine and cancer treatment, as well as paving the way for the atomic bomb.
That’s the stuff of textbooks. But Radioactive also takes us behind the scenes of that story. What we see is a woman whose passionate stubbornness is almost her undoing. Marie cares little for what others think of her. But Pierre quietly helps Marie channel her passion in positive ways. Together, they make a dynamic radioactive duo that will lead to not just one, but two Nobel Prizes for Marie.
Speaking of passion, we see a surprising amount of the physical kind on display here for a PG-13 film, both in Marie’s relationship with Pierre and in an affair she has after Pierre is tragically killed in an accident. Some violent images of World War I get screen time, too, as do the Curies’ deteriorating health due to radiation sickness. For those reasons, we’re giving Radiation a 2.0 out of five for family friendliness.

TV Review: PJ Masks Jul 23, 2020

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PJ Masks may not inspire kiddos to go to bed on time, but at least it teaches them about being kind and helping others.

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