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.

Lawless

Like the white lightning it showcases, this is a flick that might look like a Mason jar full o’ fun, but you’ll find it burns somethin’ wicked whilst you’re gulping it down.

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Guild Wars 2

Some 250 years after the conclusion of the first game, ancient dragons have awoken and begun doing what dragons do: terrorizing the land and corrupting its inhabitants. Someone’s got to figure out a way to take them on.

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Premium Rush

Slide, dash, duck and swerve. The life of a Manhattan bike courier is a fast-pedaling one. But there’s more to navigate here than a few opening cab doors and misjudged stoplights.

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Darksiders II

The seal has been broken and the horseman Death is on the move. But this Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse tale won’t be following any sort of biblical script.

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Call of the Wild … ly Famous

We, the people, have always had an affection for those in the spotlight: the famous. Ever since the first scruffy human guy shuffled back to his clan, pushed his Bieber-ish locks aside and grunted about his near-death brush with a sabre-toothed tiger ( …

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Papo & Yo

Believe it or not, video games can be more than just button-crunching time-fillers. Papo & Yo aims to offer real hope through digital drama to those struggling with abuse.

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Sleeping Dogs

This crime RPG blends Grand Theft Auto-style street grit with Hong Kong action flick hits.

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The Last Story

Here’s a game that unfolds like a fantasy novel page-turner. But what’s to be found on the way to a happy ending?

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Marilyn at 86

The other day I spotted a young girl, maybe 10 or 11, walking through the supermarket with her mom. Nothing out of the ordinary there, of course. What got my attention, though, was the fact that this cute little kid was wearing a Marilyn Monroe T-shirt …

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Nitro Circus: The Movie

These high-risk stunt drivers take motorcycles, school buses, semitrucks and even Big Wheels trikes to jaw-dropping heights. And jaw-breaking lows.

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Diary of a Wimpy Kid: Dog Days

Dog Days has the least amount of slobber on it when it comes to Diary of a Wimpy Kid movies. Does that say more about this movie … or the rest of the series?

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Risen 2: Dark Waters

An invite to put on your virtual eye patch and blue beard might seem like a fine promise of video gaming gold. But ye best know what dangers await before slogging to this here ship.

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Kingdom Hearts 3D [Dream Drop Distance]

What kind of game has the Beagle Boys kidnapping Minnie while RPG critters battle spikey-haired good guys? None other than Kingdom Hearts.

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Something Hopeful in the Midst of Horror

Earlier this week, in the wake of the Aurora Colo., shooting, our own Paul Asay blogged about some of the things he felt when once again stepping back into a movie theater: The wariness, the quick glances, the dash of wound-up anxiety from himself and …

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The Bright Future of Video Gaming (Really!)

If you’ve seen almost any sci-fi movie set in the future, you know what kind of a bleak, dismal place it’s going to be. According to future-foreseeing flicks, in 20 years the earth will have heated to blast-furnace levels and charred brown will be the …

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