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.

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Blue Prince

‘Blue Prince’ is a charming E-rated puzzler with equal measures of difficulty and delight for players of all ages.

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Want Lunch? Call My AI Agent.

What if you could hand over a list of tasks to an AI personal assistant and have it take care of all the details?

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Locked

‘Locked’ pits two deeply unsympathetic characters against each other in a taut, gruesome morality play about crime and punishment.

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South of Midnight

In ‘South of Midnight’ lessons and wisdom compete with blood and muck in a visually creative folklore tale.

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Captain America: Brave New World

There are a few nice things about this cap and his tale. But maybe not enough to be worthy of a hearty ‘Family Assemble!’

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In The Lost Lands

‘In the Lost Lands’ is a bloody fairytale of corrupt churchmen, a werewolf and a witch, all wrapped in grime, torment and shadow.

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The Alto Knights

Director Barry Levinson has created a taut and textured mob movie. But that doesn’t make it an easy trip to the theater.

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A Working Man

‘A Working Man’ unleashes a former black-op soldier to eviscerate human traffickers. But will it leave you cheering … or blanching?

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The Woman in the Yard

‘The Woman in the Yard’ uses creepy horror to sketch out its metaphorical lesson.

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Elroy and the Aliens

There’s a lot to enjoy here, but don’t let the cartoony visuals fool you. There are adult bits and pieces in this interdimensional quest, too.

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Atomfall

‘Atomfall’ feels a bit lighter than your typical bloody survival game. But it still has gun blasts to the face and crazed rats.

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Opus

‘Opus,’ the latest horror film from A24, attempts to comment on faith and society. But it’s a gory composition.

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6 Techy Doodads for Parents to Keep an Eye On

Each year the Consumer Electronics Show (CES) presents a showcase of all sorts of new wiz-bang electronics, computer hardware and software innovations. This year it was hosted in Las Vegas at a convention center that encompassed some 2.9 million square …

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Assassin’s Creed Shadows

‘Assassin’s Creed Shadows” takes its shadow-slipping storyline to feudal Japan. The result? Beauty and gore in equal measure.

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Carmen Sandiego

The new ‘Carmen Sandiego’ game won’t stump older detectives, but young rookies may enjoy solving crime in a red fedora and trench coat.

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