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.
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.
A guy. His mom. And a crude, rude, socially unacceptable gym teacher. That equals comedy, Billy Bob Thornton-style.
So think of Walking With Dinosaurs as a souped-up 5th-grade science class filmstrip, with just enough drama to keep kids interested for at least three-quarters of the running time.
From the creator (Ryan Murphy) of one of TV’s most repugnant series (Nip/Tuck) comes one of the year’s most repugnant movies (Running With Scissors).
Pics like Anchorman 2 feel more like a Gatling gun barrage of joke-a-second absurdities and crude nonsense.
Three barely clad women compete in a martial arts contest against the world’s best fighters.
Fish is a washed up ’80s hair band drummer recruited to play with a high school group at the prom. Things might just turn out OK … if he can only keep his clothes on. Ugh.
Channing Tatum’s turn as “Magic Mike” hints at the dark side of male stripping. Mostly, though, it just shows him from every side.
A Scottish lad finds a barnacle-encrusted egg and becomes a daddy … to the Loch Ness Monster.
While not autobiographical in any specific sense, A Serious Man examines the Coen brothers’ roots with a deconstructing—and predictably quirky—look at a Midwestern Jewish family.
Entertainment? Not a lick. Inspiration? All burned up by the fire. Only loss and despair are left.
The vampires are out in force once again—this time in a genre (the sleazy sex comedy) that’s about as preternaturally eternal as the vamps are.
So you always wanted to best Bowser while playing as the princess in pink? Well, step into a new world, Peachy.
First-century Rome is under attack by marauding barbarians. Only one seasoned centurion stands in their way. (That’d be you.) Let the grisly gutting and limb-lopping begin!?
