The film BEETHOVEN is about a cute, cuddly St. Bernard puppy named Beethoven whose antics cause most of the Newton family to love him, but that gives the man of the house numerous bad moments. BEETHOVEN is a rare jewel in today's film market: it is a family movie, refreshing, funny, exciting, and heart-warming as each one in the Newton family learns from their new pet and from each other about love, understanding and acceptance. In addition, the Newtons exemplify a loving, caring family and faith in God as they hold hands while saying "grace" at the dinner table.

CHARLOTTES' WEB is a live action movie of the beloved children's novel, about a young farm girl named Fern, a small pig named Wilbur, and a spider named Charlotte. CHARLOTTE'S WEB is a radiant delight for children of all ages, a brilliantly plotted movie filled with positive moral messages and signs of God's grace penetrating ordinary life.

GODZILLA VS. KONG pits the two monsters together when Godzilla suddenly goes on a rampage against a powerful corporation studying the source of his atomic energy, and the scientists monitoring Kong take him to his original Hollow Earth home, which appears to contain the source of the giant lizard’s power that can be used against him. GODZILLA VS. KONG is pretty much just a spectacular slugfest, with occasional foul language, but it provides lots of big screen thrills, and the heart of the movie is Kong’s touching friendship with a little deaf girl who can talk to him using sign language.

GOING MY WAY is a classic Bing Crosby movie about a new more progressive priest coming to take over a church that is mired in debt and headed by an elderly priest stuck in his ways. Void of objectionable content (other than some minor alcohol), the movie encourages church members to move from being judgmental to being helpful.

POKÉMON DETECTIVE PIKACHU is a funny fantasy adventure with lots of action, set in the world of the Japanese “pocket monsters” craze, where a young man investigates the mysterious death of his estranged father, a police detective, with the help of his dad’s partner, a cuddly, talkative yellow Pokémon creature named Pikachu. DETECTIVE PIKACHU is mostly family friendly entertainment, with a strong father-son story providing some positive moments, but the movie contains some magical creatures, a couple light innuendoes, intense action, and brief foul language that warrant caution for older and younger pre-teenagers.

DUNE is part one of a futuristic science fiction epic about the male heir of a powerful nobleman, who decides to unite a band of nomadic natives, living on a desert planet containing a valuable natural resource, against their oppressors, the rival family that murdered his father. Based on the classic novel, DUNE is a powerful, exciting, satisfying epic with Christological themes, excellent good dialogue, and statements about freedom and individualism, but caution is advised for older children and young teenagers because of intense action violence and references to the hallucinogenic properties of the natural resource.

In THE LITTLE RASCALS, Spanky and the gang are bent on winning the big go-cart race with Alfalfa at the wheel. This movie lacks the magic of the original Little Rascals which it tries so hard to copy that it is drained of almost all humor. Furthermore, there is a minor amount of foul language, some crude slapstick moments and some sexual innuendo which warrant discernment for young children.

Steven Spielberg’s THE ADVENTURES OF TINTIN is a glorious, grand animated adventure about a young curious reporter, his dog, and the drunken descendent of a sea captain who go searching for a lost family treasure. THE ADVENTURES OF TINTIN is an exhilarating roller coaster ride where good triumphs over evil and the light of the Cross reveals hidden treasure, with plenty of action and comedy along the way.

THE AMAZING SPIDER-MAN is a darker, more mature action-packed reboot of the SPIDER-MAN franchise where Peter Parker finds his spider powers and must save his girlfriend, Gwen Stacy, from the evil Lizard Man. THE AMAZING SPIDER-MAN is a very exciting, though more serious, incarnation of the popular web-slinging hero, but still contains a strong moral worldview, with a caution for children.

THE AMAZING SPIDER-MAN 2 finds Peter Parker trying to protect his girlfriend and finding the secret that made his parents leave him while he battles a newly made super-villain named Electro and a childhood friend who turns to evil. The exciting story is slightly convoluted, but everything converges in the end. There’s almost no objectionable content in THE AMAZING SPIDER-MAN 2, which has many strong moral points promoting hope, goodness, and being a good role model for children.

FLIGHT OF THE PHOENIX is a well plotted, exciting action-adventure yarn about a plane load of disparate men who crash in the Mongolian desert. Much less foul language and some attention to detail could have made FLIGHT OF THE PHOENIX one of the year’s better movies.

RUDY is the heroic, basically true struggle of a little guy trying to reach the impossible dream of playing football at Notre Dame. Through his perseverance, he becomes a real life role model in reaching a desired goal. Regrettably, the depiction of Catholicism is somewhat skewed, although a sovereign God is implicitly extoled; and, the film is marred by some foul language, although the character using the most profanity is reformed by his girlfriend.

VENUS AND SERENA is a candid story of the power of perseverance as displayed in the careers of tennis superstars Venus and Serena Williams. VENUS AND SERENA has a light moral/biblical worldview. While the movie has several positive themes such as faith, perseverance and redemption, a caution is still advised for some foul language.