Episodes
Aug. 5, 2020
Screen in Your Pocket: School Gave My Kid a Screen
How do you deal with a screen the school hands out?
Aug. 4, 2020
Movie Review: Kane Brown - Be Like That
Kane Brown is joined by Swae Lee and Khalid on this feel good song with a handful of not-so-feel-good moments.
Aug. 3, 2020
Movie Review: The Larva Island Movie
Think of it as a poor-man’s Minions cartoon with a lot less, well, funny stuff.
July 31, 2020
Movie Review: The Kissing Booth 2
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 ...
July 30, 2020
TV Review: DC Super Hero Girls
Sure, these high schoolers sometimes have to take down the bad guys. But they’re more about lifting up each other.
July 29, 2020
Screen in Your Pocket: Young Kids and Screens
What guidelines work best for young kids and screens?
July 28, 2020
Track Review: Lamb of God - Lamb of God
The group detests injustice. But it doesn’t deliver a redemptive alternative in this pulverizing collection of metal tracks.
July 27, 2020
Movie Review: Ip Man 4: The Finale
Comes with a few controversies, but it’s also a heartwarming tale.
July 24, 2020
Movie Review: Radioactive
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 ...
July 23, 2020
TV Review: PJ Masks
PJ Masks may not inspire kiddos to go to bed on time, but at least it teaches them about being kind and helping others.
July 22, 2020
Screen in Your Pocket: Top Video Apps
What do you need to know about the top social media video apps?
July 21, 2020
Album Review: Juice WRLD - Legends Never Die
This album isn’t what you’d expect, especially when you see it labeled as explicit.
July 20, 2020
Movie Review: Archive
The biggest issue with this robo-drama is the completely unnecessary foul language in its memory bank.
July 17, 2020
Movie Review: First Cow
In new movie First Cow, now streaming online, we meet two guys who don’t fit the profile of adventurous pioneers. Otis Figowitz is a cook for a group of rough and tumble trappers in Oregon in the early 1800s. He’s a quiet, reflective type—in contrast to the boisterous hunters he serves. Otis soon meets an Chinese entrepreneur named King Lu who’s seeking his fortune on the West Coast. Together they form an unlikely friendship and business relationship baking for the group they serve. Now, about ...
July 16, 2020
TV Review: Central Park
Central Park probably isn’t the show you want to be central to your family.
July 15, 2020
Screen in Your Pocket: Teens and Too Much Social Media
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July 14, 2020
Music Review: Kanye West - Wash Us in The Blood
Kanye West calls out to God to change us and guide us with His spirit.
July 13, 2020
Movie Review: Feel the Beat
Feel the Beat is a predictable-but-sweet story about the value of self-worth, the need for selflessness and the beauty of family.
July 10, 2020
Movie Review: Greyhound
The new movie Greyhound, now streaming on Apple TV+, stars Tom Hanks as the captain of a Navy destroyer in World War 2. His assignment? Escorting supply ships across the Atlantic to protect them from Germany’s lurking U-boat submarines. Captain Krause is a man of deep character whose life is marked by faith and prayer. He walks the bridge of his ship until his feet literally bleed. But speaking of blood, we don’t see too much of that in this intense-but-restrained PG-13 war movie. A lone harsh ...
July 7, 2020
Music Review: NEEDTOBREATHE - Who Am I
NEEDTOBREATHE explores our struggle to accept, embrace and trust that God’s love requires nothing in return.
July 6, 2020
Movie Review: Trolls World Tour
This glittery sequel ultimately teaches a valuable lesson about loving and accepting people who are different.
July 2, 2020
TV Review: Go! Go! Cory Carson
Sure, the show has a few tiny bumps—but for the most part, Cory Carson runs smoothly.