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.
Fantastic Four has all the nuts and bolts and moving parts of a fun modern superhero movie—from attractive stars to CGI bombast. But it’s a super-suited tin man seeking a heart.
An alien virus turns people into mind-numbed automatons. (For the fourth time, now.) Nicole Kidman races to the rescue.
Jackie Chan and Chris Tucker team up for a third time for a few more kicks … and punches and backflips and roundhouses.
Writer/director/actor Zach Braff follows up Garden State with a wistful rumination on lessons yet to be learned … and foul language already spewed. It’ll make you say, “Wish I Wasn’t Hearing This!”
Dusty Crophopper is back, not as an ace air racer this time, but as a fire fighter in training.
Dawn of the Planet of the Apes often feels exactly like what it is: a second installment, a step in between, a transitional fossil.
The latest Civilization effort exports its streamlined world-building ambitions straight to your smartphone or tablet.
Here’s a shooter/combat game that wants you to see exactly what damage you’re causing—every crushed bone and ruptured organ.
It’s three years after the evil Decepticons demolished Chicago and the Autobots fearlessly fought them off. High time for yet another big ol’ robot rumble! Or maybe not.
Driving straight through the night from ‘Fargo’ to West Texas, the Coen brothers have created a blood-soaked (Oscar-winning) modern Western that’s as chilling as it is hopeless.
ABBA’s finally off Broadway and on movie screens. Thousands, maybe millions, cheer and dance, but do you really know what this manic musical is about? What it wants to teach you?
