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.

Strange Brigade

This T-rated shooter seems cinematically charming at first. But its creativity soon gives way to a dark, tedious, grinding game.

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Life Is Strange 2, “Roads”

This narrative adventure sequel invites gamers into a thoughtful-but-problematic journey along several rocky roads.

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The House with a Clock in Its Walls

One can only hope that wise parents are scared away from this freaky flick … long before their kids are.

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Transference

You might want to think twice before locking yourself into this VR escape room.

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The Predator

Quinn McKenna is a Special Forces guy who’s very effective behind a sniper scope and hair trigger. If you want some scum somewhere in the world taken out at 1,000 feet via a bullet to the forehead, Quinn’s your guy. His latest kill-the-bad-guy mission, …

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Shadow of the Tomb Raider

Lara Croft’s adventures these days are much better than her tomb-raiding of yore. But in other ways, a whole lot worse, too.

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Peppermint

This flick is a horribly written 102 minutes of bloodletting and spewed foul language.

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Marvel’s Spider-Man

The latest Spidey game delivers high-flying fun with just a few sticky content bits for parents to consider.

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Destiny 2: Forsaken

This expansion for Destiny 2 adds more of what we’ve seen before … but with a much darker storyline.

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Kin

Kin is darker and far less enjoyable than its publicity materials might have you think.

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Operation Finale

This film communicates the horror and aching loss of the Holocaust without actually showing us many gory details.

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Donut County

This light casual game is almost like therapy … with holes.

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A-X-L

If you were a bullied teen who just happened to stumble upon a huge robotic dog, what would you do?

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BlacKkKlansman

For the most part, BlacKkKlansman reflects upon the disturbingly vile mindset of the Ku Klux Klan in the 1970s.

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We Happy Few

We Happy Few quirkily says some compelling things about our world’s problems. But it has problems of its own, too.

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