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.

One Chance

Beyond a few notes about content, there are some movies that you shouldn’t know too much about going in. And the less you know about Paul Potts, the more you might like his musical underdog’s tale.

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Dracula Untold

A new dimension of the ancient monster Dracula is being exposed to the sunlight. Was he really just a misunderstood and oh-so-swoon-worthy action hero?

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Piranha

The director of The Hills Have Eyes should have called his gorefest The Fish Have Teeth. Lots of them. More of them than R ratings can typically handle.

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Left Behind

It struggles sometimes with plot holes and special effects but tries to make up for that by working hard to raise questions.

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The Good Lie

Much like the 2006 award-winning documentary God Grew Tired of Us, this drama grabs Americans by the collar.

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Annabelle

Threatened babies, ceiling-crawling demons, screeching occultists and bloody suicides do not a watchable movie make. Even in the horror genre.

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Middle-earth: Shadow of Mordor

Slipping through the shadows to butcher an evil army’s leaders … Lord of the Rings style.

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Hyrule Warriors

The legendary Link is back. (Again.) But this new adventure has a fan service twist as Zelda gets mashed up with Dynasty Warriors.

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The Song

The poignant words of Song of Solomon and Ecclesiastes come to (modern) life through the story of a singer named Jed, the son of David King.

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Disney Infinity: Marvel Super Heroes (2.0 Edition)

The latest bring-your-toy-to-digital-life game goes super and swings the Marvel universe door wide.

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Blood and Chocolate

Mashing up and mangling a handful of old movie titles may clarify this new one: I Was a Teenage Werewolf in Bucharest Who Wants to Date an American Artist.

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A Walk Among the Tombstones

It’s tense, it’s moody and prickly, and it’s ultimately bloody and grim and deadly. Which, of course, finally leads us right up to those tombstones.

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Tusk

It’s enough to make me wish the Internet itself had never been invented. But since it was, then all I can say now is: #WalrusNo!

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The Eye

After Jessica Alba’s double corneal transplant, she starts seeing shadows that shouldn’t be there.

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Harsh Times

Mix an explosively hot-tempered man with enough drugs and booze, and things are bound to get ugly. Especially in L.A. (From the producer and writer of Training Day.)

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