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.
Well, it’s time for another incoming class of ex-high schoolers to step up to higher learning. And this year those freshmen were born way back in that ancient year of ye old 1993. Of course, that may mean zippidee to you, but Beloit College in Beloit, …
Here at Plugged In we love statistics and studies. In our daily cultural research and media reviews, we’re constantly plucking out quotes and figures from one study or another to back up a point of view or maybe get people thinking. Why, what would mor …
You want to be able to jump from tall buildings in a single bound? In Deus Ex there’s an aug for that.
The ’80s may be dead and gone, but DreamWorks hopes to resurrect some of its undead residents.
As you all know, the world of presidential politics is heating up and will be getting incrementally toastier in the next 18 months. Candidates are vying for attention, and media outlets and opposing campaigns are digging around, trying to find out whet …
This downloadable arcade game transports plastic warriors out of your toy box and into your Xbox.
OK, I’ll admit it, I haven’t always been the most vocal supporter of the wonders of social networking. In fact, I was recently contemplating its similarities to the biblical plagues of Egypt—something in the neighborhood of the nagging flies of Faceboo …
Robert Altman and Garrison Keillor bring public radio to the big screen, but tranquil Lake Wobegon vistas are nowhere in sight.
Veruca Salt was cast as a bad egg when she screeched, “Don’t care how, I want it now!” The Victorious cast sings the same song … and they’re the new role models.
1) Disney. 2) An orange soda gun. 3) A platypus wearing a hat. What’s the common thread in that list? Why, Phineas and Ferb, of course.
The title is super-cool. The concept is inventive. And the messages about self-sacrifice and leaving the past in the past so you can do the right thing now are poignant. But violence and bad language do some serious damage as they strafe the story.
I remember the day—many moons back when I was in high school—when the school administration announced that they were going to sanction a certain outdoor spot behind the school as a “smoking area.” Now, not being a smoker, it didn’t really matter much t …
The guys who’ve already tormented moviegoers with ‘Date Movie’ and ‘Epic Movie’ are now deliberately making things worse by releasing what they should have just called ‘Sword Movie.’
So you’ve given up on your dream of being the next web-discovered pop phenom. And you’ve wisely backed away from trying to wow ’em with some kind of set-yourself-on-fire-and-jump-off-the-roof YouTube vid. But fear not, there are still plenty of ways to …
