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.

This Is the End

Seth Rogen and his typical gang of lowball comedy pals think it’s a drag when their party gets crashed by … a horde of demons as Armageddon descends upon Los Angeles.

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Animal Crossing: New Leaf

Turn over a new game with this town-building, resource-managing and friend-making “adventure” that’s animal-filled casual gaming at its most casual.

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Remember Me

Memory manipulations and recollection reconstructions in a future world are the name of the game.

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Transporter 3

It’s a silly, incoherent action movie to the third power, but with an odd twist of integrity. Not enough of a twist to make any difference, though.

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After Earth

Real-life father-son duo Will and Jaden Smith bring fictional father-son duo Cypher and Kitai Raige to life … in a world not very conducive to such extravagances.

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Haywire

Mallory Kane may not know why everything in her private security job has gone, well, haywire. But she sure can take a punch.

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Epic

Tiny and epic aren’t words that usually play well together. M.K. certainly wouldn’t think so … until she’s shrunk down to grasshopper size for the adventure of her life.

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Resident Evil: Revelations

Is it actually a new revelation or still dead men walking as old man Resident Evil raises his weathered head with another excursion into virally infected horror?

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Metro: Last Light

Living in an underground metro system while the surface above glows from nuclear devastation is not an easy life. And it’s not an easy game. (Or a splatter-free one either.)

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Step Up Revolution

The Step Up dance card expands to flash mob scenes and community protests.

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Ratatouille

Remy dreams of becoming a great French chef, but his family reminds him of one major hurdle: He’s a rat.

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The Big Wedding

It’s a movie that’s just like a dress. A bridesmaid’s dress. And, yes, that kind of bridesmaid’s dress.

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Mud

A boy finds a man who’s living in a boat that’s stuck in a tree. That may sound outlandish. But in this delta world it’s as normal as catfish pie and broken hearts.

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Dead Island: Riptide

And the worst vacation ever just won’t die! (The zombies won’t allow it.)

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Star Trek

Better set your phaser to “wary” when encountering this new movie-inspired game-based life-form.

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