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.

PAYDAY 2: Crimewave Edition

For all of its teamwork coolness, this is merely another bloody shooter that’s all about illicit loot … and ruthless murder.

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A Nightmare on Elm Street

Freddy’s back. (Again.) And the kids are in for another round of undeserved hacking and slashing. It’s high time they moved over to Maple Street.

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Jurassic World

Seriously? Some unsavvy insurance company is still issuing coverage policies to this dyno-devoted theme park? And they’re still making movies about it too!

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LEGO Jurassic World

The key to making it through LEGO Jurassic World – which combines all four films into one – is to explore, break things apart and create something new.”

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Insidious: Chapter 3

Would it surprise you to know that Insidious: Chapter 3 works from pretty much the same screeching-demon template that its two predecessors used?

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Entourage

Are we really supposed to appreciate yet one more showcase of the lifestyles of HBO’s rich and raunchy boy-men of Tinseltown?

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Splatoon

Painting your territory with torrents of ink replaces coloring the ground with gore in Nintendo’s version of a multiplayer shooter game.

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Megamind

Is he a blue meanie with the blackest of souls? Or a misunderstood genius with a heart of gold? Only Minion—and our reviewer—know for sure.

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Puzzle & Dragons Z + Puzzle & Dragons Super Mario Bros. Edition

This Nintendo game pack takes the Candy Crush-style puzzle concept and plays it out with two totally different stories and sets of characters.

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The Witcher III: Wild Hunt

In this trilogy conclusion, the witcher Geralt searches, sexes and slaughters his way through 100-plus hours of horror.

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Pitch Perfect 2

A cappella vocal arrangements. Smooth. The conversations that surround them? Sloppy.

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Fearless

Graceful bone crunching abounds as Jet Li journeys from selfish arrogance to selfless service with honor.

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Hot Pursuit

Here’s a comedy in hot pursuit of crude gags, tired put-downs, vapid sexual nonsense and more than a cursory curiosity about carnal curves.

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Letters to God

For 8-year-old Tyler, a stack of letters he’s written to God are far more than just childish scribbles. They’re good spiritual medicine—for him and for everybody around him.

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Wolfenstein: The Old Blood

Nazis are using mechanized war suits and the occult to win the big war. It’s “history” by way of an FPS game.

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