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 Solid V: Ground Zeroes

Metal Gear Solid offers up a sampler plate in hopes of whetting appetites for the upcoming main course. But we’ve got to be honest, It just gave us a stomachache.

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Bad Words

This flick may not be as scary as suffering from defecaloesiophobia or as painful as pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis, but it comes close on both counts.

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Dark Souls II

The incredibly difficult Dark Souls franchise delivers another 40-plus hour journey into a virtual world that’s all about dying over and over.

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Titanfall

With super-athletic style and walking tank bulk, the gamemakers at Respawn Entertainment have given birth to a new generation of first-person shooters.

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Leatherheads

George Clooney does his Cary Grant best to make 1920s football something worth watching.

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Space Chimps

An animated movie about monkeys lost in space? Count us in! Did we mention yet that these scampering simians wear fancy space suits—and talk?

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300: Rise of an Empire

They didn’t name it 600, but the Warner Bros. moviemakers certainly upped the ante in this double dose of hyper-stylized, 3-D sex, blood and guts.

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South Park: The Stick of Truth

We will indeed stick to the truth in our review of a gross game spawned by one of the vilest entertainment franchises on the planet.

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Non-Stop

As passengers begin to die on a transatlantic flight, everyone onboard is a suspect, even the scruffy air marshal hero.

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Plants vs. Zombies: Garden Warfare

Here’s a third-person battler for gamers who like shooters without all the trigger-pulling gunk. More mulch than mess, you might say.

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Thief

Is this franchise reboot a game of big rewards, a penny-ante thief of your time or something altogether more grim?

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Pompeii

No awe. No mystery. No intelligence. Just a big overwrought mess. My own youthful ponderings seem pretty grown up compared to all this.

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Man of the Year

Barry Levinson and Robin Williams reunite to set the world on its ear by electing a comedian President of the United States of America.

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Resident Evil: Extinction

This is movie No. 3 in a painfully predictable and gruesomely bloody (video game-inspired) zombie series.

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About Last Night

It presents a one-dimensional romcom tale in a crude, crass, offensive and completely forgettable way.

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