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Documentaries are hot right now. Whether you're watching President Obama narrate Our Great National Parks with your kids, baking in the schadenfreude of Bad Vegan , or learning about culture and history through movies like What Happened …

This year, we want to stream the 2020 Tokyo Olympics but of course, we happened to have cut our cable cord years ago. Instead, we rely on several streaming services — mainly Netflix, the free HBOMax subscription that came with our phone …

In a typical Oscars year , I'm pretty much an expert on the (ahem) animated film category , but when it comes to the best picture or documentary feature film categories, I've maybe seen one or two movies. But 2020 was anything but typica…

Anyone else confused about the HBO offerings? There's HBO Go, HBO Max, HBO Now, HBO Later (Okay, I just made that one up, but you get the idea). But the good news is that HBO has finally taken the hint from confused consumers and start c…

Anyone else missing trips to your local movie theater? I know I am, which is why I've been researching the best home projectors for backyard movie nights, which seem to be the closest we're going to get to sitting in a theater anytime so…

Oh hi there, fellow anxious, friends. How are you holding up? It's been quite a stressful week, and I don't see it letting up anytime soon, so I'm doing my best to give my brain a little break, and one way that I do that is binge-watchin…

What you do after the kids are in bed on Valentine's Day -- that's your business. What you do while the kids are still up and wanting to hang out with you though? Well, we can help with that. As the resident cinephile, I've put together …

My husband already had the new Disney+ streaming service locked and loaded on our Roku TV yesterday morning. And even though there were a few glitches with it on mobile, we had no problems perusing the many offerings and watching a coupl…

If you haven't heard, Disney is launching a paid streaming service in November that everyone is talking about and well, based on the Disney+ launch show line-up we're seeing, we're not surprised about the hype. We just got a peek at ever…

If there's ever a time when we deserve some extra hours parked in front of a screen, it's the week after Christmas when we are all coming down from the excitement of the holidays. And if you are a Roku customer, make sure you check out R…

We have a few Thanksgiving traditions in our family: mom's pumpkin pie, a turkey that's never quite ready when we expect it to be, and A Charlie Brown Thanksgiving on TV. Because Lucy, Linus and the rest of the gang are just a sentimenta…

Thanks to comedian Chelsea Peretti, Netflix is about to get a whole lot of movie and TV requests. She recently discovered a link on the Netflix site that allows you to submit your suggestions for what you'd like to see offered. Related: …

With so many of us mourning the passing of Stephen Hawking, and celebrating his many contributions to the world of science, it leaves a lot of our kids asking who he was, what he did, and what he believed -- and some of us adults are int…

The PyeongChang Winter Olympics are here, hooray, which for us means staying up way too late to watch which athletes will take home the gold. So much for sleep these next few weeks. If you're wondering how to stay tuned in to all the act…

We know lots of families, like us, who have ditched cable and completely switched over to a streaming devices, like a Roku or Roku TV . So, when we got an email from our friends at Roku sharing their most searched TV shows, films, and ce…

You know the frustration of sitting down for family movie night, searching Hulu, Netflix, Amazon Prime, but not finding the show you've been so excited to watch, right? Well, we thought we'd share some other sites that stream great movie…

The mixtape will just not go away, and that's just fine by me. In this case, the beloved cassette of the days of yore now comes in form of a new MP3 player called the Mixxtape , courtesy of wildly popular Kickstarter campaign that blew a…

Your Valentine's Day just got a whole lot more romantic thanks to the official news that Prince is now available on Spotify and Apple Music. Whoo! That's right, all of his albums can be streamed all day, and... all night. Ahem. Start off…

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Being a total Prime junkie who likes getting the most out of my membership (hello, free shipping + Transparent !) I was excited to learn that now Prime members will get exclusive access to free streaming PBS Kids series . Then I realized…

With the warm weather here, I'm spending much more time outside with my family, whether it's just eating dinner outside or having a few friends over for an impromptu gathering. And to spruce my little outdoor space up a bit, I think I mi…

I love family movie nights, especially on those rare occasions when it takes less than 15 minutes for the kids to agree on what we're going to watch. So when I heard about a new wireless projector called CINEMOOD that lets you bring fami…

It's pretty rare that I watch a new release or an Oscar-nominated movie in any kind of timely manner, but today's launch of a new service called FandangoNOW may make the impossible possible. We primarily know Fandango for movie listings …

I'd been considering cutting the cable cord for about a year before I actually took the plunge. My kids and I rarely ever watch cable, and pretty much never use the landline (I don't think I ever actually learned that phone number!), so …