# Do we have a choice about what we watch?

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19 June 2015 · Reviews / Culture

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[The Big Picture – What your kids are watching – Minions](https://vimeo.com/130656533) from [The Big Picture](https://vimeo.com/user37994556) on [Vimeo](https://vimeo.com).

School holidays aren’t far away. That means at least one thing — more kids/family movies filling our big screens. Major animation studios Pixar and DreamWorks have released *Inside Out* and *Minions*, to tempt your holiday spending. To help you work out what you might spend your money on, *Insights* provides you with the nifty service of The Big Picture. Every week, movie and TV reviewers Mark Hadley and Ben McEachen discuss what’s out and about, so you can get a better idea of what to check out. And what to avoid.

As you will see when you press play on the *Minions* video, Mark and Ben also raise the simple but overlooked question: do you HAVE to take your family to watch the latest animated movie? Or, you know, can you decide not to? Sounds easy; often, it’s not as easy it sounds.

- **[Read Russ’s review of Inside Out.](https://www.insights.uca.org.au/reviews/inside-out)**

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**[For more Big Picture videos, including Jurassic World, Mad Max Fury Road and 50 Shades of Grey, click here.](https://vimeo.com/user37994556/videos/sort:plays/format:thumbnail)**