Popcorn & Prayers
Popcorn & Prayers
★ ALL REVIEWS ★

Find your next movie night.

ACTION / SUPERHERO
Spider-Man: Brand New Day

The world forgot Peter Parker, and this movie is about what that costs him. It argues that asking for help is brave — and it echoes Genesis 2 more than it knows. PG-13 and it earns it, mostly on language.

ANIMATED
Tuttle Twins

Our family's favorite kids show, and the rare one that actually teaches critical thinking. An animated time-travel series on Angel Studios (with free episodes on YouTube) that makes history, money, and freedom genuinely fun — with an honest note about the worldview it teaches.

EPIC / ADVENTURE
The Odyssey

Christopher Nolan's three-hour, IMAX-shot take on Homer is a staggering piece of filmmaking — and a surprising picture of surrender and confession. But it's a hard R for adults only, with heavy violence and real pagan ritual content.

HISTORY / DRAMA
Young Washington

Angel Studios' story of a young George Washington is less a battle movie than a story about failure, humility, and going back for your people. Beautifully acted, honest about hard history, and quietly moving — best for 14 and up.

ANIMATED
Meet the Robinsons

The most underrated animated film Disney has ever made, and the best movie about failure ever aimed at kids. A family that cheers when the invention explodes, a villain built out of one grudge he never put down, and an ending about a boy being chosen.

ANIMATED
Toy Story 5

A wholesome, surprisingly timely return about screens, imagination, and finding your people — I really enjoyed it.

FAITH / DRAMA
I Can Only Imagine 1 & 2

A combined review of I Can Only Imagine (2018) and its 2026 sequel — two of the most touching, faith-deepening films we've watched. Remarkably clean, deeply moving, and worth the tissues.

FAITH / DRAMA
Unsung Hero

Our favorite Christian film. The true story of the Smallbone family losing everything and rebuilding on faith — the movie my husband and I have leaned on through our own hard seasons in business.

SCI-FI
Disclosure Day

A slick, well-made Spielberg alien thriller that I admired more than I enjoyed — the heavy language and genuinely murky spiritual content are the real talking points, making this one for discerning adults rather than family movie night.

ACTION
Masters of the Universe

A loud, silly, nostalgic He-Man reboot that I genuinely had a blast with — just know the PG-13 is real, and this one's for teens and grown-up fans, not the littles.

ANIMATED
Hoppers

A Pixar eco-fable with the right heart — stewardship, repentance, family — but a too-scary Insect King overshadowed the good stuff for our kids.

BIBLICAL DRAMA
House of David

A prestige biblical drama that sent us running back to our Bibles — heavy on violence, witchcraft, and dark spiritual imagery, but rare in how seriously it takes the source material.

SCI-FI
Star Wars — The Mandalorian and Grogu

A lighter, funnier, creature-feature Star Wars with a real father-and-son heart underneath all the blaster fire — and a body count to talk about on the way home.

SCI-FI
Project Hail Mary

A beautiful story of friendship and sacrifice in space — I walked out of this one grinning, and almost went back to bring my husband.

ANIMATED
The Super Mario Galaxy Movie

A family-first Mario sequel with surprisingly real heart — Bowser of all people gets a redemption arc, the sisters get a reconciliation, and "your family is forever" earns its place as the movie's beating heart.

ANIMATED
KPop Demon Hunters

I almost wrote this off based on the title — and I would have missed one of the most accidentally Christian-themed animated movies of 2025

ANIMATED
Shrek Forever After

A nostalgic rewatch with a surprisingly grown-up message about treasuring the everyday — and a little more wink-wink humor than I remembered.

ANIMATED
Moana

A strong-hearted heroine my kids walked away talking about for days.

SCI-FI
Star Wars — Episode IV — A New Hope

One of my favourite comfort films — a movie about courage, loyalty, friendship, and the clearest good-versus-evil story in modern cinema.

FANTASY
The Lord of the Rings — The Fellowship of the Ring

A three-hour fantasy epic that takes courage, friendship, and the corrupting nature of evil more seriously than almost any movie of the last twenty-five years — and the Christian imagination underneath it is part of the reason.

FANTASY
The Lord of the Rings — The Two Towers

The middle film of the trilogy — darker, heavier, and possibly the most quietly Christian war movie of the modern era. Mercy, addiction, deliverance, and hope-as-discipline, all the way down.

FANTASY
The Lord of the Rings — The Return of the King

The finale of the trilogy — the heaviest, the longest, and the most quietly Christ-haunted of the three. Sam carrying Frodo, Frodo failing, the king kneeling to the hobbits, and the gospel everywhere underneath.

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MoanaThe Lord of the RingsStar WarsToy StoryInterstellarFinding NemoThe HobbitInside OutDuneFrozenProject Hail MaryShrekJurassic ParkTangledPlanet of the ApesEncantoRatatouilleUpThe IncrediblesCarsHow to Train Your DragonZootopiaWall-ECocoBrave