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.

Dumb and Dumber To

The low-bar standard of inane and fart-focused giggles that Jim Carrey and Jeff Daniels delivered some 20 years ago has long since been eclipsed.

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Assassin’s Creed: Unity

This game is both a révolutionnaire update and just another stab at back-alley stabbing. Pouah! Read on for les détails sordides.

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Beyond the Lights

So is this a girl-empowering music-biz exposé, an impassioned Nicolas Sparks-style romance or a heavy-breathing leerapalooza? Well, let’s just say you get an eyeful of all three.

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Breaking and Entering

Jude Law’s life is sent into a tumble by an acrobatic young thief and his beautiful mother in this twisted tight tale of forgiveness, sacrifice and … sex.

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LEGO Batman 3: Beyond Gotham

This chockablock game takes its own name quite seriously, pushing the Dark Knight out of his comfort zone. Way out. As in outer space out.

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Next

Nicolas Cage has a secret. He can see two minutes into the future. But can he see enough to rescue his girlfriend and save the lives of 8 million people?

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Hannah Montana: The Movie

It’s not easy for a limelight-addicted teen to adjust to life in the country. But it didn’t seem to take much effort at all for this TV show to turn itself into a movie.

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Big Hero 6

You won’t want to say it (because it would make Baymax power down), but you’ll likely find that you were well satisfied with your care.

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Call of Duty: Advanced Warfare

Call of Duty: Advanced Warfare says futuristic armed conflict will be all about the bravery, blood and guts of very human soldiers … along with super-duper computers and outrageously obliterating weaponry.

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Pride

A passionate coach helps inner-city kids overcome the racist attitudes around them and become Philadelphia’s first African-American swim team.

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Before I Go to Sleep

Before I Go to Sleep’s real problem is not one of scope and craft as much as wince-worthy moments betwixt the plot points.

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Sunset Overdrive

What would you do if all your friends were turned into slavering, gnarly mutants? Sunset Overdrive wants you to find out—in the worst way possible.

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The Sentinel

A throwback to the 1990s’ ‘In the Line of Fire’ and ‘Nick of Time,’ ‘The Sentinel’ stands ready to serve and save the President.

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Charlotte’s Web

If Charlotte herself were spinning this blurb, she’d write that this incarnation of E.B. White’s farmyard ‘miracle’ is ‘some movie.’ Would she be right?

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Bayonetta 2

The hyper-sexualized witch Bayonetta is back for another hacking, slashing, blasting action romp. (But her clothing isn’t.)

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