Episodes

March 10, 2025

Culture Remix: God With Us: Bible Stories on the Road to Emmaus

While walking the road home to their village, an elderly couple and their two young charges are amazed by a stranger’s stories. Read the Plugged In Review If you've listened to any of our podcasts, please give us your feedbac...
March 9, 2025

Movie Review: Plankton: The Movie

SpongeBob SquarePants' tiniest frenemy, Sheldon J. Plankton, is finally getting his close up. Read the Plugged In Review If you've listened to any of our podcasts, please give us your feedback.
March 6, 2025

Movie Review: Rule Breakers

This feel-good story focuses on a brave woman in Afghanistan who recruits girls to compete in an international robotics competition, despite fierce opposition. Read the Plugged In Review If you've listened to any of our podca...
March 5, 2025

TV Review: Your Friendly Neighborhood Spider-Man

Spider-Man may be a nice guy, but not every content issue is friendly in Your Friendly Neighborhood Spider-Man. Read the Plugged In Review If you've listened to any of our podcasts, please give us your feedback.
March 4, 2025

SiYP: Parent’s Screen Time

Do you think your teenager spends too much time on his or her phone? What about your own screen time? Read the Plugged In Blog If you've listened to any of our podcasts, please give us your feedback.
March 4, 2025

Culture Remix: Screen Fast 2025

Looking for something to do for Lent 2025? Join the Screen Fast—take a week to fast from technology and reconnect with your family! Read the Plugged In Review If you've listened to any of our podcasts, please give us your fee...
March 3, 2025

Movie Review: Between Borders

Timely and compelling, ‘Between Borders’ tracks an Armenian family looking for home—and finding one in the Church. Read the Plugged In Review If you've listened to any of our podcasts, please give us your feedback.
Feb. 28, 2025

Movie Review: Ne Zha 2

This Chinese animated film comes with box-office bona fides and nice craftsmanship. But when your main character is a demon, you’re bound to run into problems. Read the Plugged In Review If you've listened to any of our podca...
Feb. 27, 2025

TV Review: Goosebumps: The Vanishing

A few darker elements raise this adaptation from the kid-friendly tone of its source material to a TV-14 rating. Read the Plugged In Review If you've listened to any of our podcasts, please give us your feedback.
Feb. 26, 2025

SiYP: Hikikomori

The hikikomori phenomenon, once an issue largely exclusive to Japan, is now a global problem. Here’s what you should know about it. Read the Plugged In Review If you've listened to any of our podcasts, please give us your fee...
Feb. 25, 2025

Culture Remix: How Ridiculous

In pursuit of fun, the team behind How Ridiculous competes and experiments, proving that having fun doesn’t have to be crude to be enjoyable. Read the Plugged In Review If you've listened to any of our podcasts, please give u...
Feb. 24, 2025

Movie Review: The Gorge

The Gorge is an action-adventure-romance-mystery-drama-sci-fi-thriller all in one—and with content issues from each of those genres to boot. Read the Plugged In Review If you've listened to any of our podcasts, please give us...
Feb. 21, 2025

Movie Review: The Unbreakable Boy

This film is funny, sweet and true. We’re broken. But in our brokenness, we can still strive for gratitude, forgiveness and love. Read the Plugged In Review If you've listened to any of our podcasts, please give us your feedb...
Feb. 20, 2025

TV Review: Going Dutch

In Fox’s Going Dutch, decorated Colonel Patrick Quinn is assigned to Stroopsdorf, the “least important U.S. Army base in the world.” Read the Plugged In Review If you've listened to any of our podcasts, please give us your fe...
Feb. 19, 2025

SiYP: Bored Teens

When teens are bored, they habitually reach for their phones. It’s a quick dopamine fix, but only leaves them with the anticipation of… is there something more? Read the Plugged In Blog If you've listened to any of our podcas...
Feb. 18, 2025

Culture Remix: For the King II

‘For the King II’ offers a fun, turn-based, multiplayer adventure. But there are things that parents of young players should note. Read the Plugged In Review If you've listened to any of our podcasts, please give us your feed...
Feb. 17, 2025

Movie Review: The Lord of the Rings: The War of the Rohirrim

The Lord of the Rings: The War of the Rohirrim is a simple story, but both its violence and animation have some choppiness to them. Read the Plugged In Review If you've listened to any of our podcasts, please give us your fee...
Feb. 14, 2025

Movie Review: Captain America: Brave New World

While not the worst of the Marvel offerings, this film’s not really worthy of breaking out your red-white-and-blue shield, either. Read the Plugged In Review If you've listened to any of our podcasts, please give us your feed...
Feb. 13, 2025

TV Review: Doc

Fox’s new medical drama Doc sets up an intriguing premise. Time will tell if it crashes into salacious content or recovers into a worthwhile watch. Read the Plugged In Review If you've listened to any of our podcasts, please ...
Feb. 12, 2025

SiYP: Top Social Media Used by Teens

90% of US teens use YouTube. How do parents stem the tide of that site’s influence? Read the Plugged In Blog If you've listened to any of our podcasts, please give us your feedback.
Feb. 11, 2025

Culture Remix: Unraveled (Keeper of the Lost Cities # 9.5)

An elf runs off to the Forbidden Cities of the human world to find secrets and figure out how to control his new powers. Read the Plugged In Review If you've listened to any of our podcasts, please give us your feedback.
Feb. 10, 2025

Movie Review: Juror #2

Truth and justice are the central themes behind Juror #2. But there’s quite a bit of language at the center of it, too. Read the Plugged In Review If you've listened to any of our podcasts, please give us your feedback.
Feb. 7, 2025

Movie Review: I’m Still Here

This film juxtaposes familial tenderness and political violence, gritty determination amid personal devastation. Read the Plugged In Review If you've listened to any of our podcasts, please give us your feedback.
Feb. 6, 2025

TV Review: Wonder Pets: In the City

Wonder Pets: In the City brings back a beloved franchise with new characters and (as of yet) no content issues to worry about. Read the Plugged In Review If you've listened to any of our podcasts, please give us your feedback...