Explore how major platforms like Netflix, Disney+, Amazon Prime Video, Hulu, and Apple TV+ rate their content. Our guides explain each streaming service’s age rating system, parental controls, and maturity levels, helping families make smart, safe viewing choices across every platform.
Joel Edgerton stars in Train Dreams, a spare, elegiac drama directed by Clint Bentley and adapted from Denis Johnson’s 2011 novella. The film is a period piece set in the American West (early 1900s) that follows Robert Grainier (Edgerton), a logger and railroad hand whose life is shaped by love, long absences from home, sudden … Read more
A new action-comedy landed on Prime Video this week and—true to its title—turns an ordinary playdate into a full-blown survival movie. Playdate is a 2025 buddy action-comedy directed by Luke Greenfield (known for broad comic fare) and written by Neil Goldman. The film stars Kevin James as Brian Jennings, a recently laid-off accountant-turned-stay-at-home stepdad, opposite … Read more
Champagne Problems (2025) is a holiday romantic comedy written and directed by Mark Steven Johnson, starring Minka Kelly as ambitious executive Sydney Price and Tom Wozniczka as Henri Cassell, the charming heir to a historic French champagne house. Supporting roles include Thibault de Montalembert, Sean Amsing, and Flula Borg. The story follows Sydney’s business trip … Read more
In a bright, family-friendly holiday offering that leans into music, comedy, and the Jonas Brothers’ signature charm, A Very Jonas Christmas Movie follows Kevin, Joe, and Nick Jonas as themselves on a chaotic, music-filled dash from London back to New York to be with their families for Christmas. Directed by Jessica Yu and written by … Read more
Guillermo del Toro’s long-gestating film Frankenstein (2025) is a sweeping, gothic, based on a novel by Mary Shelley’s from 1818 that blends tragedy, spectacle and gruesome creature-making. The film is written and directed by del Toro and stars Oscar Isaac as Victor Frankenstein, Jacob Elordi as the Creature, with Mia Goth and Christoph Waltz in … Read more
Nia DaCosta’s Romance, Comedy Hedda, a bold re-imagining of Henrik Ibsen’s Hedda Gabler starring Tessa Thompson, opened in select U.S. cinemas on October 22, 2025, and began streaming on Prime Video on October 29. The film recasts the 19th-century drama in a lush, 1950s England setting and leans into queer themes, guns, and psychological manipulation … Read more
The age-old legend of Robin Hood — the heroic thief who “steals from the rich to give to the poor” — returns in 2025 with a darker, more politically charged TV adaptation from MGM+. But unlike the colorful family-friendly swashbucklers of past decades, this new 10-episode series is a gritty, violent reimagining, set against the … Read more
Kathryn Bigelow’s A House of Dynamite arrived this month as a Netflix event movie that refuses to be comfortably categorized. The film—an ensemble, White House–set thriller about a single, unattributed missile on a collision course with the United States—plays like a real-time moral pressure test: seconds count, authority clashes, and the camera stays tight on … Read more
HBO’s long-teased prequel series IT: Welcome to Derry arrived in late October as an unapologetically adult expansion of Stephen King’s mythic town — and it comes with clear viewer warnings. The first episode premiered October 26 on HBO (weekly episodes to follow), and early reviews and parental guides flag the show as intense, violent, and … Read more
When the familiar world of superheroes meets the ruthless, ravenous world of the undead, the result is both shocking and unmistakably for grown-up viewers. The new animated series Marvel Zombies shifts the usual bright cape-and-cowls scenario into dark territory — and the age rating speaks volumes: TV-MA in the U.S. Here’s how the story plays, … Read more