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.

Miracles From Heaven

This is a very human-feeling drama that’s still all about God’s priorities, God’s choices and God’s timing.

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Hitman

It makes it worse that 47 is just so OK-cool about all the life-leeching lessons he’s teaching.

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Eye in the Sky

Through tense, clock-ticking drama and well-acted interactions, Eye in the Sky raises many questions about the new gray areas of military conflict.

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The Division

Loot is good here. Loot is power. And, of course, like many MMOs that have come before, loot can equal addiction.

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Zootopia

More carrots than you might expect to chew on while cabbing the kiddie crew home.

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Eddie the Eagle

Like Eddie himself, Eddie the Eagle probably won’t be winning any awards … but it certainly works hard to get to its goal of properly introducing us to an earthbound man who wished to fly.

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Far Cry Primal

This is still solidly a franchise game, living in its own primal world that’s most likely pretty far away from your own.

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Fire Emblem Fates

Fire Emblem Fates is a game that’s been expanded and broken up into three different parts … with three separate price tags.

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Street Fighter V

Beyond the realities of the fighting itself, then, the real punch to a gamer’s solar plexus comes in the form of the battling characters themselves.

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How to Be Single

How to Be Single is a lousy title for this movie. There’s really very little insight of any kind here for your average single to harvest or digest.

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Unravel

You can’t help but feel at least a bit connected to little Yarny and his soft, colorful and, happily, family-friendly scrapbook of memories tale.

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XCOM 2

It’s twenty years after the original XCOM story, and our alien foes have some nasty plans up their space suit sleeves.

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Hail, Caesar!

There’s always more than “surface” to a Coen collaboration.

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Kung Fu Panda 3

As in past entries, the goofball, underachieving panda protagonist has a lot more than dumplings dumped on his plate.

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The Witness

The gamemakers are asking players to think about … thinking. And that’s something you don’t regularly encounter when you pick up a game controller.

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