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.

JESUS

Sight & Sound Theatres’ JESUS is proof that sweeping, engulfing and emotional events are all at home on the stage.

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REV

REV wants to tempt viewers, through exotic cars and bikini-clad girls, into thinking it’s a Fast and Furious clone. It’s not.

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Gears Tactics

Gears Tactics offers a strategy-oriented approach to this combat franchise. But if you’re expecting less gore, think again.

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The Half of It

The Half of It comes packing the two-punch combo of same-sex attraction and subtle elbows thrown at people of faith.

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Predator: Hunting Grounds

The movie-like vibe of playing a Predator is undeniably compelling, but it can’t be called good hunting.

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The Rhythm Section

Actress Blake Lively certainly appears to give her all in this graphic and miserable movie.

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Extraction

Blood spurts and explosions decimate in a rhythmic two-step of deadly destruction.

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Lost Words: Beyond the Page

This creative, E-rated platforming adventure uses particular words to help gamers explore the things of grief.

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The Turning

The Turning offers a collection of dirty-mirror jump scenes in search of a point. Or a message. Or a story.

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Tigertail

This is a thoughtful, emotional examination of how we’re all changed in small, incremental ways by the choices we make.

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Selah and the Spades

This film uses privileged teenagers as a window into a stylized, play-like study of human frailty and corruption.

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Half-Life: Alyx

A classic gaming franchise gets an immersive, VR-only sequel. But what does this game immerse you in?

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Underwater

Underwater skips exposition altogether and leaps with videogame-like glee into its deadly, high-pressure destruction.

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Resident Evil 3 (Remake)

The remake of this 1999 game adds two decades of realism and detail to this already gore-drenched zombie apocalypse.

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Dolphin Reef

Dolphin Reef ably weaves together made-up fish tales to give us a very nice understanding of how a coral reef ecosystem works.

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