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.

Another Gloriously Royal Dimension

You’ve stocked your cabinets full of commemorative T-shirts, comic books, jewelry boxes and even a monogrammed servant’s bell, but you haven’t got your wedding invites from the Queen yet? Oh, dear. But don’t worry, duckie, it looks like the whole upcom …

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The Mechanic

Jason Statham is a hard-hitting killer who pounds his way through scores of foes. When isn’t he?

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The Virtual Lies They Tell

I’ve been keeping an eye on a new video game that’s coming out soon called L.A. Noire. It’s a 1940s crime thriller being released by Rockstar Games, the same company that built its reputation around the Grand Theft Auto titles. But I’m not really here …

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Two Worlds II

Games these days deliver immersive worlds that can swallow you whole for days, weeks and months at a time. Two Worlds II takes that gobble-up-your-life creed to heart.

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The Pink Panther 2

Inspector Jacques Clouseau is back on the job. Well, the rebooted Steve Martin version, anyway. So grab the kids, clear the streets … and get out of the way.

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No Strings Attached

When it comes to romcoms, Natalie Portman is “tired of seeing girls who want to get married all the time.” She shouldn’t have any trouble enjoying her new movie then.

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Girlie Gaming

Hello there, blogging Plugged Inners. I recently posted a brief article called The Girls of Gaming that I wanted to point out to you. And I do so not because I desperately want you to read all things Hoose … though I suppose I do. But more importantly, …

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LittleBigPlanet 2

Ready for another round of LittleCuteAdorable? Sackboy is back to save a whole new world of dreams … and build some of his own, too.

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The Nanny Diaries

When Scarlett Johansson finds herself working as a nanny on Manhattan’s East Side, she discovers there all the things that money can’t buy.

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The Real Man on the Street Announcer

It’s easy to look at YouTube with its videos of ranting nobodies, marauding thugs and train-wreck teens and think, “when does the shelf life of this stuff finally run out?” I know my grumpy old man thoughts have drifted in that direction from time to t …

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Box Office Solidarity

For all you Twitter fans out there, it appears there’s something else that your tiny social interaction blurbs can do really well: improve our choices at the box office. Well, maybe it wasn’t all Twitter’s doing, but you tweet lovers helped, according …

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Gulliver’s Travels

Jack Black is the big man on campus in this Lilliputian remix flick. But the resulting fun is much smaller than you might expect.

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Ve Haf Vays of Makink You Buy

Here’s your disturbing thought for the day. There’s a new form of advertising being tested in Germany that won’t let you escape a product’s branding, even if you shut your eyes. Stay with me and I’ll explain. The experiment, conducted in a German movie …

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TRON: Legacy

After almost three decades TRON finally gets a sequel. But do we all know too much about the cyberworld now to feel any of its wow factor?

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The Last Sin Eater

Christian director Michael Landon Jr. turns his attention away from Janette Oke and toward Francine Rivers, trading the open prairie for the coves and confines of Appalachia.

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