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.

Faith of Our Fathers

Faith of our Fathers is a sometimes sobering, sometimes goofy, sometimes incoherent road-trip movie. It also mirrors the spiritual journey John Paul and Wayne’s fathers took before them

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Terminator Genisys

No matter how much a director strives to change a franchise’s cinematic past when rebooting it, all that change can really only go so far.

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J-Stars Victory VS+

Super Smash Bros. meets anime and manga in J-Stars Victory VS+. It packs in 39 playable characters and 13 support characters.

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Max

It’s a matinee-style flick that harkens back to old TV shows like Lassie and The Adventures of Rin Tin Tin.

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88 Minutes

Not even Al Pacino—with 88 days on his hands instead of only an hour and a half—can drag this depraved and undernourished serial killer thriller out of the instant-reject file.

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Batman: Arkham Knight

Batman: Arkham Knight could leave a dark imprint on the minds of those who soldier through its hours of dank gameplay

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J. Edgar

The tangled tale of the FBI’s founding director gets a compassionate look from Leonardo DiCaprio and Clint Eastwood.

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Stick It

Rebel teen Missy Peregrym tumbles back into the world of competitive gymnastics and has to decide whether she’ll ‘stick it’ or tell the judges to.

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PAYDAY 2: Crimewave Edition

For all of its teamwork coolness, this is merely another bloody shooter that’s all about illicit loot … and ruthless murder.

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A Nightmare on Elm Street

Freddy’s back. (Again.) And the kids are in for another round of undeserved hacking and slashing. It’s high time they moved over to Maple Street.

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Jurassic World

Seriously? Some unsavvy insurance company is still issuing coverage policies to this dyno-devoted theme park? And they’re still making movies about it too!

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LEGO Jurassic World

The key to making it through LEGO Jurassic World – which combines all four films into one – is to explore, break things apart and create something new.”

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Insidious: Chapter 3

Would it surprise you to know that Insidious: Chapter 3 works from pretty much the same screeching-demon template that its two predecessors used?

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Entourage

Are we really supposed to appreciate yet one more showcase of the lifestyles of HBO’s rich and raunchy boy-men of Tinseltown?

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Splatoon

Painting your territory with torrents of ink replaces coloring the ground with gore in Nintendo’s version of a multiplayer shooter game.

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