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.

The Crood family crouches together in a defensive huddle.

The Croods: A New Age

Through almost pure happenstance, The Croods: A New Age has now become a pic that reflects our current crazy world.

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love and monsters

Love and Monsters

Despite Love and Monsters’ feel-good vibe, it still has a few too many foul teeth and rough edges.

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Call of the Sea

You’ve got a fun puzzling adventure game here, toting a lightly mixed steamer trunk.

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A man and a woman share a drink and smile at a bar.

Fatale

Fatale is packed with carnal infidelity, heartless betrayal, vile manipulation and bloody murder.

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Screen shot of a gun about to shoot a sword-wielding enemy in the video game Cyberpunk 2077.

Cyberpunk 2077

This highly anticipated, cinematically structured RPG pushes the boundaries on explicit M-rated content of every kind.

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A bound man sits in a chair with tape across his mouth.

Infidel

Infidel reminds us that faith in the face of real-world persecution isn’t always a comfortable thing to watch.

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Four adults look excited in a hotel lobby.

The Prom

In a season filled with new movies celebrating gay identity and acceptance, The Prom is the tiara-wearing Queen of the Ball.

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We see Miles Morales in his Spider-Man suit with his mask off.

Marvel’s Spider-Man: Miles Morales

What does this guy named Miles Morales have tucked up his web-slinging sleeves?

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What’s New and Streaming for Families for December 2020

It’s December. And hoo-baby there’s a sleigh-full of new family movies flooding down the chimneys of your local neighborhood streaming services.

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Mulan (2020)

This is more wuxia battle adventure than anything winking and whimsical.

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Gaming Goods 2020: Bob Hoose’s Year-End Picks

Now that we’re nearing the end of this Corona-fevered year, we thought we’d take a stab at naming a few of Plugged In’s favorite games.

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Screen shot of the video game Sackboy: A BIg Adventure.

Sackboy: A Big Adventure

The hardest part of Sackboy’s smile-worthy Big Adventure for me was trying to come up with anything problematic to say about it.

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Two guys are walking, one carrying a goat.

Half Brothers

when you add in all of its often diametrically opposed content issues, Half Brothers never coalesces into a satisfying, family-friendly whole.

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Two female lovers walk arm in arm.

Happiest Season

Happiest Season delivers a holiday-themed lesbian romance that predictably appropriates the genre’s formula and feel-good vibe.

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Dr. Seuss’ The Grinch

This version of the Grinch’s tale is well made, as clean as a crisp snow on a Sunday morning.

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