Contributor: Lauren Cook

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Lauren Cook is serving as a 2021 summer intern for the Parenting and Youth department at Focus on the Family. She is studying film and screenwriting at the University of North Carolina School of the Arts. You can get her talking for hours about anything from Star Wars to her family to how Inception was the best movie of the 2010s. But more than anything, she’s passionate about showing how every form of art in some way reflects the Gospel. Coffee is a close second.

Screen shot from Rosanna Pansino's YouTube channel.

Rosanna Pansino

The most popular baking channel on YouTube can be fun and educational for kids, despite some occasional content hiccups.

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St. Vincent Daddy's Home album cover

Daddy’s Home

Annie Clark, aka St. Vincent, returns with an alt-rock effort that mixes redemptive themes with questionable conclusions in Daddy’s Home.

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Wooden puppet in Pinocchio

Pinocchio

This version of the classic tale, Pinocchio, is much more Grimms’ Fairy Tales than it is Disney.

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three women standing in Flack

Flack

Nonstop vulgar content dilutes a relevant message about the façade of celebrity culture.

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A teenage girl participating in Panic

Panic

Unless you’re interested in a version of high school that includes casual sex and life-endangering stunts, Panic might be worth skipping.

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Still from Knockout City game

Knockout City

Your gym teacher’s favorite game goes digital. And you won’t risk a trip to the nurse’s office to play it.

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A mother and child in Awake

Awake

It’s difficult to take themes of sacrifice and family seriously from a film that doesn’t seem to value life in the slightest.

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Billie Eilish and friends in Lost Cause music video

Lost Cause

It’s great that Billie Eilish is shaking free of a bad boyfriend. But did she have to be so spiteful and profane about it?

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Screen Shot from MrBeast's YouTube Channel.

MrBeast

Mo’ money, mo’ problems, as they say. Well, not for Jimmy Donaldson, aka MrBeast, whose dozens of spending sprees ranging from philanthropic to frivolous to downright ridiculous have earned him over 100 million subscribers and well over 10 billion view …

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