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.

Screen shot of armored, monstrous-looking soldiers attacking.

Outriders

This looter-shooter title fully earns its M-rating with a cacophony of raging action and profane dialogue.

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A man and a young man ride horses through a town.

Concrete Cowboy

Concrete Cowboy is a modern redemption tale with an equal number of aces and poison snakes in its boot.

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What’s New and Streaming For Families for April 2021

It’s time to focus on April sunshine and budding flowers and … hey, a family friendly movie or two wouldn’t be bad either.

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It Takes Two

There’s a kids’ game vibe in this unusual video game that aims to help parents think about love, conflict and marriage.

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Godzilla and King Kong trade punches while standing on an aircraft carrier.

Godzilla vs. Kong

Kong and Godzilla don’t cuss or make a single inane choice. They just crush and smash things. Over and over and over.

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The Pathless

The Pathless is a quick-paced, beautiful game with a mythical journey that could trip up some players.

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Screen shot from the video game Harvest Moon: One World.

Harvest Moon: One World

More than any of the past Harvest Moon games, One World keeps players engaged in its farming sim fantasy world.

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Yakuza: Like a Dragon

The latest Yakuza entry offers a fresh, creative revamp of this hit franchise. Unfortunately, it’s still a bloody and profane one, too.

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Shot from the movie Yes Day, starring Jennifer Garner, with her and her whole family in a car dressed up as superheroes.

Yes Day

Balance is the lesson that this sweet, and occasionally eye-rollingly silly, little film wants to promote.

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Screenshot from the game Maquette.

Maquette

Maquette is, without question, a very creative and at times very difficult, puzzle-focused game.

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SpongeBob and Patrick talk to Keannu Reeves as a sentient sage brush plant.

The SpongeBob Movie: Sponge on the Run

If families decide to dogpaddle into Bikini Bottom, they should be aware of some odd, tangled seaweed amid the colorful coral.

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A female lawyer talks with her client across a table in a prison.

The Mauritanian

The Mauritanian is a dramatic story of U.S. governmental overreach, a tale of abuse and injustice.

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What’s New and Streaming for Families for March 2021

Let me tell you something else about March … as in some family friendly fare that’ll be streaming this month that you might like to check out.

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Animated Tom and Jerry talk to a real-life hotel worker.

Tom & Jerry

This pic won’t leave anyone purring to beat the band. But it won’t make you want to scratch the furniture either.

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Screenshot from the video game Persona 5 Strikers

Persona 5 Strikers

Beneath its Japanese anime charm, Persona 5 Strikers cloaks a whole host of spiritual, sexual and language problems.

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