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.

Godzilla

You get to be the beastie in this game that focuses on some 50 years and 35 films full of rampaging radioactive dino destruction.

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Midnight in Paris

Woody Allen sticks rose-tinted lenses in his signature scoop-shaped glasses to take film fans back to the “perfect” Paris of the ’20s. But will we want to stay there?

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Minions

This prequel to the Despicable Me films is little more than 90 minutes of goofy silliness designed to uncork a cluster of cackling kid convulsions.

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Young Adult

What becomes of a high school beauty queen who never really grew up and can’t quite reconcile her thirtysomething unhappy life with her past popularity? Is she the epitome of today’s young adult?

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The Final Season

A teeny-tiny high school with a big baseball legacy desperately tries to tally one last championship.

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Anna’s Quest

A download-only title that the gamemakers say is inspired by “the Brothers Grimm & Hans Christian Andersen … with a sci-fi twist.

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30 Minutes or Less

How long will you be in the theater before you wished you’d read this review first? How about 30 seconds or less?

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Faith of Our Fathers

Faith of our Fathers is a sometimes sobering, sometimes goofy, sometimes incoherent road-trip movie. It also mirrors the spiritual journey John Paul and Wayne’s fathers took before them

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Terminator Genisys

No matter how much a director strives to change a franchise’s cinematic past when rebooting it, all that change can really only go so far.

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J-Stars Victory VS+

Super Smash Bros. meets anime and manga in J-Stars Victory VS+. It packs in 39 playable characters and 13 support characters.

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Max

It’s a matinee-style flick that harkens back to old TV shows like Lassie and The Adventures of Rin Tin Tin.

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88 Minutes

Not even Al Pacino—with 88 days on his hands instead of only an hour and a half—can drag this depraved and undernourished serial killer thriller out of the instant-reject file.

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Batman: Arkham Knight

Batman: Arkham Knight could leave a dark imprint on the minds of those who soldier through its hours of dank gameplay

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J. Edgar

The tangled tale of the FBI’s founding director gets a compassionate look from Leonardo DiCaprio and Clint Eastwood.

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Stick It

Rebel teen Missy Peregrym tumbles back into the world of competitive gymnastics and has to decide whether she’ll ‘stick it’ or tell the judges to.

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