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.

Astro Boy

Astro Boy was born in April 2003. But he first arrived on the pages of Japanese manga 51 years earlier. Then he conquered TV’s anime airwaves in 1963. Now he’s in theaters everywhere.

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Going With the Crowd

The movie-going experience is dead. Or so I’ve heard. And looking at the growing number of home theaters in the U.S., skyrocketing ticket prices, easy movie downloads and recent Pew Research numbers—showing that a hefty 75% of respondents would rather …

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Beatles In My Ears and In My Eyes

A few weekends back, the Fab Four rang out in my house in all their remixed and reanimated, digitized and repackaged glory. That’s right: I was one of mooing masses who quickly ran out and bought (for the second, no, third, wait, fourth time) my favori …

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Blowing Kisses to Polanski

It’s complicated. He’s a genius. C’mon, it was 30 years ago. She’s forgiven him! He’s 76, for crying out loud!! You’ve probably heard, somewhere in the news, that director Roman Polanski was arrested in Switzerland this past weekend when he showed up t …

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Paranormal Activity

If a demon started skulking around your bedroom at night, would you try to capture the kill on camera? Would you watch if your neighbor did?

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Pandorum

Space-traveling crewmates awake from hypersleep to find that their ship is swarming with nasty, hungry aliens. Haven’t we seen this story before?

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Jennifer’s Body

Jennifer’s a pretty homecoming queen who’s known to be a real man-eater. Seriously. She really does eat them.

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Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs

Pretty near every American child under the age of 8 has either read or has heard Judi Barrett’s book about a town where it rains food.

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Gamer

Tomorrow’s video games have gamers controlling real people. So when you lose in this first-person shooter, you lose a lot more than points.

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Julie & Julia

Julia Child’s most famous cookbook was published in 1961. In 2002 Julie Powell cooks her way through it.

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G-Force

What happens when guinea pigs fly … to the rescue? Well, they save the world, that’s what.

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I Love You, Beth Cooper

As Ms. Turner once sang, “What’s love got to do with it?” This sorry film has no business at all putting such a beautiful word in its title.

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The Proposal

Sandra Bullock and Ryan Reynolds team up in this surprisingly risqué comedy about a domineering boss who suddenly needs to marry her assistant to avoid deportation.

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Imagine That

In this tenderhearted tale, a self-absorbed financial hotshot takes new interest in his daughter when her imaginary pals start doling out winning investment advice.

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“Savior”

Hope and punk rock may seem like odd partners. Yet somehow they manage to coexist on Rise Against’s latest rock hit.

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