Movieguide(R) Releases New iPhone App For
Families
HOLLYWOOD, California, July 27, 2010 - (ANS) --
Looking for a family-friendly movie app for your iPhone?
Christian parents need look no further.
Movieguide®: The Family Guide to Movies and
Entertainment has just released a new application for
Apple's iPhone offering family-friendly reviews of
the latest movies and DVDs.
"This is a great day for parents and their
children," said family and child advocate Dr.
Ted Baehr, Founder and Publisher of Movieguide®.
Parents now will be able to protect their children
even better from all the negative, graphic content
coming from Hollywood."
The new application lets parents instantly scan
the reviews offered on Movieguide®'s main website, www.movieguide.org .
Movieguide®'s reviews not only tell families
the amount and nature of the foul language, violence,
sex, nudity, and substance abuse in a particular movie
or DVD. They also tell them what other things Hollywood
may be teaching in their products about morality, religion,
theology, philosophy, politics, government, and economics.
To get the new app, readers can click on the following
Internet link: http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/movieguide-family-guide-to/id376467905?mt=8.
Dr. Baehr is chairman of the Christian Film & Television
Commission® (CFTVC) ministry and its family guide
to movies, Movieguide® (www.movieguide.org ).
Founded in 1985, CFTVC and Movieguide® are
an international non-profit ministry dedicated to "redeeming
the values of the entertainment industry by influencing
industry executives and by informing and equipping
the public about the influence of the entertainment
media."
The New York Times has called Movieguide® "the
most conservative" Christian, family review service
in the United States.
# # #
By Michael Ireland, Chief Correspondent, ASSIST News
Service - Michael Ireland, Chief Correspondent of ANS,
is an international British freelance journalist who
was formerly a reporter with a London newspaper and
has been a frequent contributor to UCB Europe, a British
Christian radio station. Michael's involvement with
ASSIST News Service is a sponsored ministry department
-- Michael Ireland Media Missionary (MIMM) -- of ACT
International at: Artists
in Christian Testimony (ACT) International.
FOR MORE INFORMATION:
For more information about Movieguide®, visit www.movieguide.org or
call 1-888-248-6689.
HOLLYWOOD, California, July 27, 2010 - (ANS) -- Looking for a family-friendly movie app for your iPhone? Christian parents need look no further.
Movieguide®: The Family Guide to Movies and Entertainment has just released a new application for Apple's iPhone offering family-friendly reviews of the latest movies and DVDs.
"This is a great day for parents and their children," said family and child advocate Dr. Ted Baehr, Founder and Publisher of Movieguide®.
Parents now will be able to protect their children even better from all the negative, graphic content coming from Hollywood."
The new application lets parents instantly scan the reviews offered on Movieguide®'s main website, www.movieguide.org .
Movieguide®'s reviews not only tell families the amount and nature of the foul language, violence, sex, nudity, and substance abuse in a particular movie or DVD. They also tell them what other things Hollywood may be teaching in their products about morality, religion, theology, philosophy, politics, government, and economics.
To get the new app, readers can click on the following Internet link: http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/movieguide-family-guide-to/id376467905?mt=8.
Dr. Baehr is chairman of the Christian Film & Television Commission® (CFTVC) ministry and its family guide to movies, Movieguide® (www.movieguide.org ).
Founded in 1985, CFTVC and Movieguide® are an international non-profit ministry dedicated to "redeeming the values of the entertainment industry by influencing industry executives and by informing and equipping the public about the influence of the entertainment media."
The New York Times has called Movieguide® "the most conservative" Christian, family review service in the United States.
# # #
By Michael Ireland, Chief Correspondent, ASSIST News
Service - Michael Ireland, Chief Correspondent of ANS,
is an international British freelance journalist who
was formerly a reporter with a London newspaper and
has been a frequent contributor to UCB Europe, a British
Christian radio station. Michael's involvement with
ASSIST News Service is a sponsored ministry department
-- Michael Ireland Media Missionary (MIMM) -- of ACT
International at: Artists
in Christian Testimony (ACT) International.
FOR MORE INFORMATION:
For more information about Movieguide®, visit www.movieguide.org or call 1-888-248-6689.