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.

Star Wars: Battlefront

Star Wars: Battlefront certainly pushes the nostalgia button. Hard.

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Rise of the Tomb Raider

The newly rebooted Lara returns with bigger adventure and, unfortunately, bigger piles of corpses, too.

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Fallout 4

Games used to fit into specific categories. Fallout 4 fills something closer to an “all of the above” slot. For better and for worse.

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Call of Duty: Black Ops III

The thing you don’t really get anymore with the Call of Duty games is any sense of, well, duty.

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The Peanuts Movie

The Peanuts Movie is the perfect representation of some 50 years of Charles Schulz comic strips, condensed into a single feel-good family flick.

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Brooklyn

It’s a cinematic construct that relishes taking long, easy moments to just study actress Saoirse Ronan’s serene face, watching her pale blue eyes say far more than a wordy, noisy script ever could.

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Halo 5: Guardians

Master Chief is back to fight off the alien invaders. But he’s not the only one. And what about Cortana?

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The Last Witch Hunter

The Last Witch Hunter never quite even makes it to bland.

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Assassin’s Creed: Syndicate

In a sentence, it’s everything we’re accustomed to confronting in an Assassin’s Creed game … and more.

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Jem and the Holograms

Four or five stars would be seriously pushing things here. But I guess it’s a flick that’s probably worth at least a Facebook “like.”

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Just Dance 2016

Just Dance has always been about getting your groove going with a group and flailing around in exhilarating (embarrassing) ways. Is 2016 any different?

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Bridge of Spies

His is a story with a moralistic flare that might have stumbled in lesser hands.

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Crimson Peak

Its wince-worthy words and images aren’t anywhere near as easily brushed aside as, say, a cinematographic palette of falling leaves and crimson-dappled snow.

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Pan

This explosion of CGI color is a long way from that beloved story about a boy in green tights who never wants to grow up.

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Rock Band 4

As far as Rock Band 4’s out-of-the-box 65-strong track list is concerned, well, there are plusses and minuses in this all-important category …

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