Your top-shelf guide to shake up family film night.

  • Why the Movie Theater Experience Feels Different Now

    Why the Movie Theater Experience Feels Different Now

    Something happened while we shifted to streaming. It may have accidentally fixed the theater experience. Streaming didn’t just change how often we go to the movies. It changed who goes to the movies.

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  • Diary of a Wimpy Kid: The Last Straw (2025) – Review

    Diary of a Wimpy Kid: The Last Straw (2025) – Review

    The opening scene of Diary of a Wimpy Kid: The Last Straw makes you think this is another Wimpy Kid Christmas movie. It’s not. It is snowy, though, and ends on a positive Christmas-like note. Getting there is a journey.

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  • The 25 Funniest Family Christmas Movies of All Time — Ranked (and Where to Watch Them)

    The 25 Funniest Family Christmas Movies of All Time — Ranked (and Where to Watch Them)

    The Best Christmas Movies When You Need a Laugh The pace of Christmas is stressful. Your shopping list is overwhelming. And it’s all a build-up to one day that you want to be so perfect even Great Aunt Gertrude can’t complain. That’s why Christmas is a holiday we love to make fun of. We need…

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  • December’s Fresh-Squeezed Family Film Releases

    December’s Fresh-Squeezed Family Film Releases

    December 2025’s List…

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  • Zootopia 2 (2025) – Review

    Zootopia 2 (2025) – Review

    I was a little worried about Zootopia 2 when that first teaser dropped — showing little more than just the characters dancing. No story, no stakes, and nothing to tell you this wasn’t a cash-grab sequel shoved into theaters. But the movie proves the opposite.

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  • The Benefits of Christmas Traditions: Why Holiday Rituals Make Us Happier

    The Benefits of Christmas Traditions: Why Holiday Rituals Make Us Happier

    Christmas is a time to revel in the velvety smooth comfort of nostalgia and immerse yourself in the savory emotional fondue of unapologetic sentimentality. Why? Because it makes you happy.

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  • In Your Dreams (2025) – Review

    In Your Dreams (2025) – Review

    If you’re going to emulate a movie, you may as well emulate one of the best family films ever made. In Your Dreams doesn’t quite reach the Inside Out stratosphere, but it is worthy of your family movie night.

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  • The Top 50 Classic Christmas Specials Ranked

    The Top 50 Classic Christmas Specials Ranked

    he weebly-wobbly stop-motion. The red-nosed kindertrauma puppets. The songs about misfit toys and River Bottom Nightmare Bands. We love to bask in the warm nostalgic glow of classic Christmas specials.

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  • The Best Yule Logs to Stream This Christmas

    The Best Yule Logs to Stream This Christmas

    Welcome to our definitive countdown of the ten best yule logs to stream this Christmas — perfect for setting a cozy, festive backdrop whether you’re soaking in the sweet glow of family time or a restorative snifter of Laguvalin. 1. The Classic (YouTube) George Ford makes fantastic fireplace videos. His classic Yule log will warm…

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  • Ne Zah 2 (2025) – Review

    Ne Zah 2 (2025) – Review

    Get ready for dragons and demons and Kung-fu and BAAAAAAAACK STORY! Ne Zha 2 will hit you with a flurry of info. I assume it helps to have seen Ne Zha — you know, the first movie. But that’s not what I did. And I assume from ticket sales that’s not what a lot of…

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