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.
On my nightstand at home I have a yard-thick Autobiography of Mark Twain, a light-reading young adult novel, a bound collection of mystery yarns and a car magazine. Now, why am I giving you this useless info that you never requested? Well, it’s to test …
A brand-new animated movie from a brand-new animation studio shoots for the moon. Will supervillain Gru’s three little girls make Swiss cheese of the plan?
This globetrotting tale is about tiny creatures who couldn’t travel around the world if their lives depended on it. Not that they’d want to. They’re too busy trying to hide.
From the director of ‘Saw’ comes a chiller flick that’s old-school in all the wrong ways. Demon dolls, anyone?
This hack ‘n’ slasher is a monster to play, difficult beyond almost all others in the genre. But that’s not why DmC is a truly monstrous game.
It’s got the glitz, the retro glamour and the cinematic sheen. It’s ’40s cool, to say the least. So why all the tommy gun splatter?
When people mysteriously begin to commit suicide en masse, there’s no obvious explanation. Is it a terrorist attack? Or could it be something growing much closer to home?
Games, games, games. We’re all into playing games … of one type or another, anyway. And even though some folks will openly claim sports, politics or emotional manipulation as their play du choix, many will readily point to video games as the thing they …
This heartland tale of fracking, farming and fibbing drills down on its message … but does it strike oil?
“Is [Quentin Tarantino’s] Django attacking the cruelty [of slavery] or reveling in it?” asks Entertainment Weekly. We’ve figured out the answer.
The massively and globally popular Circus of the Sun swings from the big top to the big screen and doesn’t miss a single bombastic/contortionist/high-flying step.
OK, so that headline is Wii-lly bad. In fact, the whole Wii, Mii and U thing has always felt a bit cute and kitschy to me. But I guess we’ve got it better than France. Over there they’re stuck calling it the Nintendo “Yes.” Ba-dump-chingggg. The newest …
