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.

Metal Gear Rising: Revengeance

The solid strategy of slipping through the shadows is dead and gone. This Gear grinds on blades and blood.

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Crysis 3

Anyone can be a Superman or Iron Man with the right gadget-filled armor. But will this tech-laden shooter suit you?

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Beautiful Creatures

If teen vampires, ghosts, magicians and zombies can fall in love, why not witches? Well, let us … spell it out.

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A Good Day to Die Hard

All that’s left of the Die Hard franchise is the litter of broken glass moviegoers must navigate for the paltry privilege of seeing Bruce Willis relive his glory days.

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Hoodwinked Too! Hood vs Evil

Red and the gang are out to save Hansel and Gretel from a wicked witch. Or is it the witch who needs a little happily-ever-after aid? Or maybe this sequel?

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Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street

It’s the pitter-patter of blood drops that makes the most lovely music in the ears of the revenge-minded barber Sweeney Todd in this theatrical adaptation of the 1979 Broadway musical.

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Dead Space 3

What’s that gnawing on your space boot? Why, it’s an undead space zombie, back for another bite.

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Fire Emblem: Awakening

So are you a force for good, evil, or both? Only many, many battles and 20-plus chapters of twisting story will tell for sure. (But we’re going with good.)

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Bringing Out Your Hidden Hyde

In the dingier recesses of our minds, there are parts of us that we probably wouldn’t want everyone around us to see. You know, those embarrassing little foolish thoughts or momentary guilty obsessions and temptations that bounce around in our ever act …

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How She Move

The competitive world of step dancing may be Raya’s only ticket out of her crime-filled school and neighborhood.

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The Book Is Dead, Long Live the Book

On my nightstand at home I have a yard-thick Autobiography of Mark Twain, a light-reading young adult novel, a bound collection of mystery yarns and a car magazine. Now, why am I giving you this useless info that you never requested? Well, it’s to test …

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Despicable Me

A brand-new animated movie from a brand-new animation studio shoots for the moon. Will supervillain Gru’s three little girls make Swiss cheese of the plan?

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The Secret World of Arrietty

This globetrotting tale is about tiny creatures who couldn’t travel around the world if their lives depended on it. Not that they’d want to. They’re too busy trying to hide.

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Dead Silence

From the director of ‘Saw’ comes a chiller flick that’s old-school in all the wrong ways. Demon dolls, anyone?

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Mama

Message to everyone who has ever thought their mother was controlling or overprotective: At least she’s human. At least she doesn’t want you dead.

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