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.

Martian Child

Widowed sci-fi writer John Cusack adopts a boy who claims to be from Mars—in hopes of finding a planet where both can be happy.

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I Know Who Killed Me

Lindsay Lohan arrives onscreen bloody and mutilated in this tawdry and torpid torture flick that also exploits her in a series of pole-dancing scenes.

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Vatican to Beatles: I Wanna Hold Your Hand

Last month, we reported that the Vatican jumped into the ever-controversial game of naming the Top-10 rock albums of all time. It was a list that contained classics from the likes of Santana, U2 and Pink Floyd. And the number one rock album, in the Vat …

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Anti-Tech … Me?

Lately, I’ve gotten some comments that my blogs are becoming pretty anti-technology—that I’m ready to blame all the evils of the world on our quickly progressing tech. But that couldn’t be farther from the truth. No, no no. Believe me, you won’t find m …

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Monster Hunter Tri

Japanese heroes face off with dino-like monsters in an exotic frontier the likes of which Wii has never seen before.

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Lakeview Terrace

L.A. burns, neighbors clash and people die in this rabble-rousing Samuel L. Jackson vehicle. And you think you’ve got problems.

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Vacancy

A late-night detour lands a couple in a shabby motel where sadistic filmmakers hope to make them their next deadly feature.

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‘Til Death Do Us Tweet

Hey guys, if you’re looking for a unique way to pop the question to that special someone but skydiving makes your nose bleed and you’re afraid the old ring-in-the-champagne routine could require a Heimlich maneuver, you can always follow Greg Rewis’ ex …

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Clash of the Titans

Mythological gods and buzz-saw-toothed monstrosities are out to crush the puny humans once again. But is this remake of the 1981 original worth a new look?

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One More Rage to Worry About

“I think this is probably the first case of text rage we’ve ever seen,” Broward County (Fla.) Sheriff Al Lamberti told ABC News. “We’ve had road rage before, but never text rage.” Yep, you heard him right, rage facilitated by texting. It appears that i …

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Somewhere Down the Road

Amy Grant’s latest studio album returns to her CCM roots and offers easy-on-the-ears encouragement for those traveling life’s rocky roads.

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The Devolution of Dads (and Other Men, Too)

Ward Cleaver. Andy Taylor. Cliff Huxtable. You know the names. They’re all TV dads who stand out as father figures that sat tall in the saddle, gave solid, sensible advice and were even able to chuckle at their own foibles from time to time. Quick, now …

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Just Cause 2

Chaos and destruction rule the roost and gain all the applause in this new action/adventure game. Why? Well, just ’cause.

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Zhu Zhu Pets

You knew there just had to be a video game to go along with all those mechanical hamsters, didn’t you? It would be unthinkable for there not to be. So it would be unthinkable for us not to review it.

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Diary of a Wimpy Kid

Jeff Kinney’s Wimpy Kid opens up his diary on the big screen. But somehow the stick figure fun just doesn’t seem the same in live-action movie skin.

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