Contributor: Bob Hoose

After spending more than two decades touring, directing, writing and producing for Christian theater and radio (most recently for Adventures in Odyssey, which he still contributes to), Bob joined the Plugged In staff to help us focus more heavily on video games. He is also one of our primary movie reviewers.

Haywire

Mallory Kane may not know why everything in her private security job has gone, well, haywire. But she sure can take a punch.

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Epic

Tiny and epic aren’t words that usually play well together. M.K. certainly wouldn’t think so … until she’s shrunk down to grasshopper size for the adventure of her life.

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Resident Evil: Revelations

Is it actually a new revelation or still dead men walking as old man Resident Evil raises his weathered head with another excursion into virally infected horror?

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Metro: Last Light

Living in an underground metro system while the surface above glows from nuclear devastation is not an easy life. And it’s not an easy game. (Or a splatter-free one either.)

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Step Up Revolution

The Step Up dance card expands to flash mob scenes and community protests.

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Ratatouille

Remy dreams of becoming a great French chef, but his family reminds him of one major hurdle: He’s a rat.

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Mud

A boy finds a man who’s living in a boat that’s stuck in a tree. That may sound outlandish. But in this delta world it’s as normal as catfish pie and broken hearts.

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The Big Wedding

It’s a movie that’s just like a dress. A bridesmaid’s dress. And, yes, that kind of bridesmaid’s dress.

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Star Trek

Better set your phaser to “wary” when encountering this new movie-inspired game-based life-form.

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Dead Island: Riptide

And the worst vacation ever just won’t die! (The zombies won’t allow it.)

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Welcome Home Roscoe Jenkins

In Martin Lawrence’s latest low-brow raunch-fest, a TV self-help guru heads back to his hometown and into the perverse and prickly embrace of his extended family.

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Injustice: Gods Among Us

So what’s the deal with Superman killing Joker? And Batman fighting Superman? Clearly, this superhero scramble is more than just another arcade brawler.

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The Hangover Part II

Another Hangover? Or is the cultural headache spawned by the morally vacuous pulp we call comedy just steadily pounding away? Anybody got an aspirin?

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Pandora’s Tower

If you’re thinking tall tower, trapped girl and long blonde hair, you’ve got the wrong fairy tale. Rapunzel didn’t have to gobble down raw monster flesh in order to stay human.

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Defiance

In 1941 the Nazis invade Poland and begin exterminating Jews. Four Jewish brothers fight back by building a community of survivors in the Belorussian forest.

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