Plugged In Entertainment Reviews

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 feedback.

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.

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 podcasts, please give us your feedback.

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.

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 feedback.

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 us your feedback.

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 your feedback.

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 feedback.

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 feedback.

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 podcasts, please give us your feedback.

‘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 feedback.

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 feedback.

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 feedback.

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 give us your feedback.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Why are tween girls using anti-aging products and what can parents do to help them?   Read the Plugged In Review   If you've listened to any of our podcasts, please give us your feedback.