Episodes
Feb. 21, 2024
The Screen in Your Pocket: Palworld
Palworld may look a lot like another cute and popular monster gathering game. But Pokémon’s never had AK-47s and butchering cleavers. Read the Plugged In Review If you've listened to any of our podcasts, please give us your …
Feb. 20, 2024
Pop Culture Remix: Crystal Story: Dawn of Dusk
Crystal Story: Dawn of Dusk offers gamers a very nice taste of throwback gaming. Read the Plugged In Review If you've listened to any of our podcasts, please give us your feedback .
Feb. 19, 2024
Movie Review: The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Snowbirds & Snakes
A grim storyline paired with brutality and bloodshed involving teens offers families plenty of reasons to pass on this Hunger Games prequel. Read the Plugged In Review If you've listened to any of our podcasts, please give u…
Feb. 16, 2024
Movie Review: Madame Web
A new character steps into the Spider-Verse. But this pic spins some issues that could make your parent-sense tingle. Read the Plugged In Review If you've listened to any of our podcasts, please give us your feedback .
Feb. 15, 2024
TV Review: Hazbin Hotel
If this reviewer was to rate their stay at the Hazbin Hotel, they would award a strong zero stars. Read the Plugged In Review If you've listened to any of our podcasts, please give us your feedback .
Feb. 14, 2024
The Screen in Your Pocket: Teens on Screens Daily
Learn more about studies proving screen time dangers. Read the Plugged In Blog If you've listened to any of our podcasts, please give us your feedback .
Feb. 13, 2024
Pop Culture Remix: League of Pigs
These pigs are in a league of their own—and with nary a content concern, at that. Read the Plugged In Review If you've listened to any of our podcasts, please give us your feedback .
Feb. 12, 2024
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 feed…
Feb. 9, 2024
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 p…
Feb. 8, 2024
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. 7, 2024
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. 6, 2024
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. 5, 2024
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 feedbac…
Feb. 2, 2024
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 yo…
Jan. 31, 2024
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. 30, 2024
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. 29, 2024
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. 26, 2024
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 t…
Jan. 25, 2024
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 u…
Jan. 24, 2024
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. 23, 2024
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. 22, 2024
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. 19, 2024
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, plea…
Jan. 18, 2024
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 .