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.

Welcome Home Roscoe Jenkins

In Martin Lawrence’s latest low-brow raunch-fest, a TV self-help guru heads back to his hometown and into the perverse and prickly embrace of his extended family.

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Injustice: Gods Among Us

So what’s the deal with Superman killing Joker? And Batman fighting Superman? Clearly, this superhero scramble is more than just another arcade brawler.

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The Hangover Part II

Another Hangover? Or is the cultural headache spawned by the morally vacuous pulp we call comedy just steadily pounding away? Anybody got an aspirin?

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Pandora’s Tower

If you’re thinking tall tower, trapped girl and long blonde hair, you’ve got the wrong fairy tale. Rapunzel didn’t have to gobble down raw monster flesh in order to stay human.

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Defiance

In 1941 the Nazis invade Poland and begin exterminating Jews. Four Jewish brothers fight back by building a community of survivors in the Belorussian forest.

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Shorts

In the town of Black Falls, some crazy things are happening. And that’s before the magic rainbow wishing rock drops out of the sky.

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21

MIT math geniuses take on Las Vegas and rake in millions. Then they get greedy. Go figure.

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Scary Movie V

The Scary Movie flicks haven’t ever been all that scary. Oh! These things are supposed to be parodies? That’s odd. They’ve never been funny either.

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The Strangers

Little does a young couple know that her turning down his proposal of marriage will be the highlight of the night. (Did you know that this was a horror movie?)

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Superhero Movie

This latest predictably twisted parody from the writer of ‘Scary Movie 3’ and ‘4’ offers a predictable twist on the superhero genre.

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Hit & Run

A former wheelman and his squeeze are burning rubber in an attempt to outdistance his past. Is it a hit, or should you run?

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The Elder Scrolls Online

The Elder Scrolls is offering up a new suit of online armor and an endless Tamriel where you can battle till, well, you’re old and gray.

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1408

John Cusack portrays a writer who pens scary tales about haunted hangouts, but he doesn’t believe a bit of it. Room 1408, though, might make him a believer … or a permanent resident.

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Idlewild

OutKast adds raunchy rap lyrics to the already long list of sins committed at a 1930s speakeasy.

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The Place Beyond the Pines

It’s a nice sounding title, but there’s no peaceful breeze wafting through these trees. This father-son micro-epic snaps off limbs and uproots saplings in a gale of horrific choices.

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