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.

Runner Runner

Runner Runner is the readymade stuff of Saturday night movie dates, right? Wrong.

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The Crazies

This remake of a 1973 George Romero horror flick adds new scares and buckets more gore … not to mention an unlikely call to environmental activism.

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Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs 2

The only figurative bruised banana here (unapeeling moments, if you will) is a light barrage of thump-to-the-crotch, cut-the-cheese humor.

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Mad Money

When Diane Keaton becomes her family’s bread winner and goes to work at a bank, she can’t keep from cooking up a way to get lots of, uh, dough.

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Prisoners

Innocents are in danger. Evil is afoot and running wild. An angry “hero” attempts to beat the truth out of his handiest target. It’s a tried-and-tired Hollywood cliché … that doesn’t quite roll easily off this movie’s tongue.

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Enough Said

James Gandolfini’s last movie makes middle-aged dating look … exactly as difficult as it really is.

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Talk to Me

In the tumultuous ’60s, an ex-con shock jock steps forward to speak the people’s language and “keep it real” on the airwaves of Washington, D.C.

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Grand Theft Auto V

UPDATED REVIEW: Sixty-nine levels of slam-bang slaughter and sex. Wasn’t this franchise supposed to be about stealing cars?

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Insidious: Chapter 2

Another chapter of insidious disputes with deleterious demons. Didn’t we already read about this in Chapter 1?

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Puppeteer

A puppet’s adventure can be more than just a loose-limbed jaunt across an empty stage. Sometimes it’s a whole big colorful production.

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Scoop

Woody Allen once again enlists the talents of Scarlett Johansson (and adds Hugh Jackman to the mix) to craft an old-fashioned feeling murder mystery comedy.

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The Hitcher

A rancid remake of the 1986 Rutger Hauer kill-’em-all splatterfest. ‘Never pick up a stranger’ is the tagline for that film and this one. Instead it should be, ‘Never buy a ticket.’

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Trouble With the Curve

Scouting for the major leagues is a complicated science of facts and feelings. Being a dad is sorta that way too. Old Gus is great at the former, but the latter still gives him trouble.

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Puss in Boots

Is this Puss just a boot-marked Shrek prequel? Or is it a tabby of another color?

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Mission: Impossible III

Tom Cruise is back for the third time with fiery ferocity, attempting the most impossible mission ever—cheating death itself.

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