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.

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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Endings, Beginnings

This broken young woman’s journey toward emotional wholeness is fraught with reckless choices and explicit content.

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Some Good News About ‘Some Good News’

Perhaps one of the most exhausting things about the coronavirus epidemic is the nonstop negative coverage about the coronavirus epidemic. And the news can be pretty bleak. Lives have been lost, businesses have been shut down, and many families are stru …

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Mom

In Two and a Half Men producer Chuck Lorre’s hands, we can be sure of one thing in this CBS sitcom: The mothers don’t know best.

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The Midnight Gospel

The Midnight Gospel emphasizes each individual’s right to find their own “truth.” But the truth is, it’s a messy show.

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Escape to Witch Mountain

Despite what this movie’s title suggests, there are no witches in this live-action Disney classic.

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Like a Boss

Viewers have a front-row seat to hurled insults and some very graphic language.

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Bad Boys for Life

It’s been 25 years since these self-proclaimed “bad boys for life” first arrived on the big screen, and not much has changed.

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