Movie and DVD reviews and info

[SippinTea]

Where do you go to research the content of that DVD your friends have been recommending?

I get sick of having people recommend certain DVDs to me, begin screening it before the kids watch it, and end up disgusted (yet again!) because of the content. First off, I'm not showing something with bad content to anyone I know, and secondly I find myself annoyed because I want to keep my own mind clear of pollution. And while I try to do my homework so that doesn't happen, I had yet to find a site that is thorough with info collecting.

Just discovered this: http://www.kids-in-mind.com

This is by far the most complete site I've found along this line. But if anyone has anything better, I'd love a link.

[mesipie]

i like
www.screenit.com

idk if its better

[titushome]

Another good one is pluggedinonline.com.  The biggest drawbacks to that site are that they've only been around a few years, and they usually review only the most popular movies - so if the movie you're wondering about was released before the site was around, or if it was a less popular movie, odds are they won't have a review of it.

[MelodyB]

[bishopnl]

Plugged In Online, the one titus recommended is fantastic.  It's part of Dr. Dobson's Focus on the Family organization.

They break down every negative and positive element in movies, from spiritual content to sensual content to curse words and depictions of alcohol and drug use.  Additionally, I've found the reviewers to be pretty fair film critics as well...if the movie is clean, but still stinks (cinematically speaking) they won't hesitate to say so.  Likewise, if a movie is very good, but has negative elements too it, they still are fair enough to point out whether or not it was a decent movie.

They are pretty comprehensive, but they don't screen limited release or straight to DVD titles--which kind of stinks, because I really enjoy some limited release films. 

[Babs]

this is the one i use

http://www.imdb.com/

[titushome]

Plugged In Online, the one titus recommended is fantastic.  It's part of Dr. Dobson's Focus on the Family organization.

They break down every negative and positive element in movies, from spiritual content to sensual content to curse words and depictions of alcohol and drug use.  Additionally, I've found the reviewers to be pretty fair film critics as well...if the movie is clean, but still stinks (cinematically speaking) they won't hesitate to say so.  Likewise, if a movie is very good, but has negative elements too it, they still are fair enough to point out whether or not it was a decent movie.

That's why I like them too.

[nicolejoy]

I often use imdb too - I never remember any of the other ones

I know that I need to start reviewing better now that we've got a baby on the way!!

Bernard's dad buys a lot of DVDs, watches them once and then gives them to us - so we have a HUGE collection of stuff and we haven't watched most of them!!

[titushome]

Here's another that's sometimes helpful:

http://familystyle.com/

[Mrs. Yosemite]

I have seen advertised on television some kind of digital controller that is a dvd player, except you can check what features you want deleted such as bad language, nudity, blood, ect.  According to the way they advertisement it,  you can put almost any movie in  and it will screen it so you family can watch it. 

We just watched The Bucket List with Morgan Freeman and Jack Nichols. Which was a very good movie, except for having to ignore some awful language here and there. Even cartoons have bad language in them now.

[World Traveler]

I go to http://christiananswers.net/spotlight/home.html

[titushome]

I have seen advertised on television some kind of digital controller that is a dvd player, except you can check what features you want deleted such as bad language, nudity, blood, ect.  According to the way they advertisement it,  you can put almost any movie in  and it will screen it so you family can watch it. 

We just watched The Bucket List with Morgan Freeman and Jack Nichols. Which was a very good movie, except for having to ignore some awful language here and there. Even cartoons have bad language in them now.

A friend of mine uses Clearplay and really likes it: http://www.clearplay.com/

They sell specially-designed DVD players that can be programmed with movie-specific software.  So after you buy the player, I believe you buy a subscription with their service, with which you're allowed a certain number of movie software downloads per month.  The DVD player uses this software in conjunction with the regular, non-edited and non-altered DVD disc, to play the movie with the specific edits of your choice.  If I remember correctly, it edits for violence, sex and nudity, profanity, etc.; and it edits them on a scale, depending on whether you want to see/hear all, most, some, a little or none at all in each of those categories.  Also, the settings are password-protected so they can't be changed by anyone - i.e., children - who doesn't have the password.