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.
This platformer may be located in an unseeing wood, but it’s infused with lavish color. (Also layers of Eastern spirituality.)
An eerily shadowed blinking-light screen-full-of-static chill. But not your typical scare-fest game.
A footloose penguin named Mumble and his band of wisecracking sidekicks stand up to icebound tradition and … save the world.
A method actor, a fading action star, a drugged-out comic and a hip-hop mogul. What do they have in common? They’re all in a bad Ben Stiller movie about a bad war movie.
Imagine, if you will, a 19th-century steampunk London in which the Knights of the Round Table are still dashing about serving the monarchy. Actually, you don’t have to. The graphically otherworldly Order: 1886 does it for you.
The first Hot Tub Time Machine movie was gunk-in-the-drain-pipe putrid. This sequel doesn’t even try to ooze past the clog.
A cross-cultural cross-country drama about a beleaguered teacher inspiring young kids beyond anyone’s expectations—especially their own.
The pink ‘n’ bouncy hero Kirby is back to restore color to the universe with the help of a rainbow-painting sidekick.
The first book of Joseph Delaney’s The Wardstone Chronicles makes its decidedly unmagical way to the world of movies.
Is this whole thing a little long in the loofah? Maybe. But we can still squeeze out a few new things to talk about.
