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.

Livin’ la Vida Facebook

I’ve got to admit, I really love the recent Toyota Venza commercial. It focuses on a young girl who’s worrying about her parent’s lack of social connection. You’ve probably seen it, but if not check it out. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1xEMNrSdkdY I …

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I Don’t Know How She Does It

A career, two kids, a husband and a closet full of food-smeared blouses. The woman who was the face of Sex and the City is now juggling the joys and juxtapositions of the working mom.

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Tarted-Up Toddlers

There is something about reality shows that just rubs me the wrong way. I can’t help it, I simply find most of them to be pretty obnoxious—repeatedly grinding our virtual noses in their fame-focused subject’s generally silly choices. Case in point: TLC …

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Resistance 3

The third big shootout between humans and the Chimera. Or is it between courage and gore?

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Dead Island

The worst vacation ever … in so many (zombified) ways.

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Shark Night

Sharp-toothed killers are hunting curvy co-eds above and below the waterline in this B-movie catastrophe.

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The Frosh Mindset

Well, it’s time for another incoming class of ex-high schoolers to step up to higher learning. And this year those freshmen were born way back in that ancient year of ye old 1993. Of course, that may mean zippidee to you, but Beloit College in Beloit, …

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Accepted

At this concocted college learning is a maybe, but good tans and gross giggles are a must.

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Lions, Tigers and Studies, Oh My

Here at Plugged In we love statistics and studies. In our daily cultural research and media reviews, we’re constantly plucking out quotes and figures from one study or another to back up a point of view or maybe get people thinking. Why, what would mor …

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Deus Ex: Human Revolution

You want to be able to jump from tall buildings in a single bound? In Deus Ex there’s an aug for that.

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Fright Night

The ’80s may be dead and gone, but DreamWorks hopes to resurrect some of its undead residents.

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The (No) Paper Trail

As you all know, the world of presidential politics is heating up and will be getting incrementally toastier in the next 18 months. Candidates are vying for attention, and media outlets and opposing campaigns are digging around, trying to find out whet …

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Toy Soldiers: Cold War

This downloadable arcade game transports plastic warriors out of your toy box and into your Xbox.

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Heroes in the Tweets

OK, I’ll admit it, I haven’t always been the most vocal supporter of the wonders of social networking. In fact, I was recently contemplating its similarities to the biblical plagues of Egypt—something in the neighborhood of the nagging flies of Faceboo …

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A Prairie Home Companion

Robert Altman and Garrison Keillor bring public radio to the big screen, but tranquil Lake Wobegon vistas are nowhere in sight.

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