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 Means War

They say all’s fair in love and war. But what about a war of love that can’t stop hitting below the belt?

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The Illness That Isn’t?

There’s something going around at LeRoy High School. More than a dozen young girls at this little school located in upstate New York are twitching with physical tics and blurting out sounds with a Tourette’s-like frenzy. And the girls say they can’t of …

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Twisted Metal

This 17-year-old car combat franchise has been given a 21st-century jumpstart. So don’t think for a second that it’s your granddad’s demolition derby.

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Prom Night

This 2008 creation isn’t really a remake of teen scream-queen Jamie Lee Curtis’ 1980 slasher. But the formula’s so set, you could have fooled us!

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The Force Lives On … and On and On

I just finished reviewing the new massive multiplayer online video game, Star Wars: The Old Republic. And while taking note of the plusses and minuses of this expansive and entertaining title, I was struck by something that, I’ll admit, I haven’t stopp …

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The Darkness II

What do you get when you (again) give gun-toting mobsters demonic superpowers? Pretty much exactly what you’d expect.

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Kingdoms of Amalur: Reckoning

A sword-swinging, magic-blasting RPG about fate and freedom. Is it your destiny to play this top-of-the-charts game?

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Chronicle

Superpowers. They’re all fun and games … until someone gets hit with a flying bus.

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The Woman in Black

Stepping out from Harry Potter’s supernatural shadow, actor Daniel Radcliffe emerges in the middle of … more supernatural shadows and ghostly bumps in the night. (And by bumps we mean murders.)

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SoulCalibur V

The tale of spirit-filled blades continues … and there’s not much more to say than that. But we’ll give it a go anyway.

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Violin and Nokia Duet in A (for Annoying) Minor

We’ve all been there, that quiet time in the middle of a great movie or maybe a sweet moment while enjoying an intimate dinner with a loved one, when out of the blue somebody’s cell phone starts bleating out its attention-demanding caterwaul. All too o …

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Unaccompanied Minors

When scores of kids get stuck at a snowed-in airport over Christmas, they run roughshod over everything and everybody looking for a little seasonal joy.

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Flying into the Celebrity Debate

The debate has raged on for some time now: How much influence do celebrities have? Do these singers, actors, reality stars and internet icons really have some impact in our lives or are they simply window dressings that pretty up the outside edges of o …

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Forget Disneyland

The men and women of the Make-a-Wish Foundation sure do some great things, helping sick kids bring their fantasies to life. And I say God bless ’em. I just heard about one fulfilled wish, though, that was a little different. Disneyland? Hollywood? The …

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A Puzzling Christmas Morning

I’m a little bit after the fact here, but as my first blog of the new year let me tell you about what happened at our house this Christmas. Like most families, we have some yearly yuletide traditions. For instance, we always gather for a special family …

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