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.
A Final Fantasy journey ends and a new world begins. But utopia comes with quite a spiritual price for gamers to pay.
Sometimes a hero is easy to spot—he’s brave, he’s brilliant, he’s special. But sometimes he’s just a plastic shell of a man waiting for someone to imagine him.
This classic Japanese role-playing game pairs adventure and exploration with some dark spiritual twists.
Jealousy and back-stabbing reign as beautiful sisters (Natalie Portman and Scarlett Johansson) vie for the eye of kingly hunk Henry.
It also attempts to transition the action from gritty and “adult” (there’s foul language and gun violence in the short) to silly and kiddie. And I can’t say that the trip was worth it.
It’s a new star, a new director, a new look and a new history. Chris Pine gives us Tom Clancy’s Jack Ryan in a cinematic reboot—without direct help from the late author’s written words this time.
In order to keep the Paranormal Activity sequel mill cranking its way through to número cinco, the original story canon has had to unspool and get a bit tangled.
A cinematic recounting of a real-life failed U.S. military operation that took place in the mountainous Kunar Province of Afghanistan in June of 2005. It has since been called the worst tragedy in the history of the Navy SEALs.
The Secret Life of Walter Mitty has some rough edges. (We’ve felt them here.) It also proves to be positive, optimistic and, yes, surprising.
Ashton Kutcher is the new Tom Cruise as Top Gun meets The Perfect Storm in this tribute to the Coast Guard.
It’s Protestants vs. Catholics in this sweeping historical sequel as Queen Elizabeth I is charmed by Sir Walter Raleigh and dragged into war by King Philip of Spain.
