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.

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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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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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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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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Winter’s Tale

Destiny, magic, time travel, Lucifer in Manhattan, winged souls in the stars. It all gets tossed at the screen.

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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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The Ex

Zach Braff takes a job in his wife’s hometown and finds himself competing with her manipulative ex-boyfriend. But how do you fight a guy in a wheelchair?

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Lightning Returns: Final Fantasy XIII

A Final Fantasy journey ends and a new world begins. But utopia comes with quite a spiritual price for gamers to pay.

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Insidious

This spooky tale features an orchestral score full of shrieking violins, a comatose child and Paranormal Activity-like slamming doors. And if that doesn’t scare you away, then read on.

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The LEGO Movie

Sometimes a hero is easy to spot—he’s brave, he’s brilliant, he’s special. But sometimes he’s just a plastic shell of a man waiting for someone to imagine him.

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Bravely Default

This classic Japanese role-playing game pairs adventure and exploration with some dark spiritual twists.

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