Contributor: Emily Tsiao

Emily studied film and writing when she was in college. And when she isn’t being way too competitive while playing board games, she enjoys food, sleep, and geeking out with her husband indulging in their “nerdoms,” which is the collective fan cultures of everything they love, such as Star Wars, Star Trek, Stargate and Lord of the Rings.

Do Disney’s Recent Kids Shows Pull Punches on Important Issues?

When Disney+ was introduced last year, it kicked the nostalgia of my adolescence into overdrive. With shows such as Boy Meets World, Lizzie McGuire, That’s So Raven and many others from my youth now at my fingertips (not to mention lots of spare time t …

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She-Ra and the Princesses of Power

Adora’s pledge to fight for “the honor of Grayskull” may lose sight of other honorable qualities.

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Thirty-Four Years on Screens?!

If you’ve ever worried whether or not you spend too much time looking at screens, consider this: A new study commissioned by Vision Direct reports that “the typical person will spend a staggering 34 years looking at phones, computers or televisions.” S …

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Emma. (2020)

The promise of this witty, PG-rated period piece is briefly undermined by some surprising content.

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Entertainment That Might Cure Your Boredom (and Benefit Others)

“We may be apart right now, but coming together has never been more important,” says the Global Citizen, an organization dedicated to ending extreme poverty. And it has a point. It seems crazy that just a few months ago, we were all commuting to and fr …

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Dead to Me

It goes in some dark directions that plenty of viewers won’t want to go.

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Go! Go! Cory Carson

Sure, the show has a few tiny bumps—but for the most part, Cory Carson runs smoothly.

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The Photograph

PG-13 content concerns ultimately temper the sweet-but-substantive reconciliation at the heart of this story.

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Valley Girl

Valley Girl—a remake of Nicholas Cage’s much raunchier, R-rated 1983 version—still has its fair share of PG-13-level concerns.

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Culture Clips: Pomp, Circumstance and the Coronavirus

Well, here we are in week…wait, is it week six or seven of quarantine? Honestly, I’ve lost count. Regardless, though the days have started blending together, for many folks, this week of quarantine stands out as preschools, kindergartens, high schools …

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Hollywood

This Netflix miniseries rewrites Hollywood’s history–sometimes for the better, but often for the worse.

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I Still Believe

I Still Believe is a poignant portrait of faith and doubt, love and grief, heartbreak and hope.

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Greed

Despite embracing some admirable goals, this R-rated dramedy comes with a slew of content issues.

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Bloodshot

Despite this film’s PG-13 rating, families may well choose to draw a line with Vin Diesel’s latest bloody actioner.

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To the Stars

This at times racy YA drama sends two very different messages about who’s worthy of acceptance.

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