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.
The only one without a big plan when it’s time to take the British throne is 18-year-old Victoria herself …
Now, I’m not all about money. I probably would’ve been quite content to live in the agrarian days of yore when you’d go out and barter a cow for bags of seed corn. But as I was buying Christmas gifts and trying to ignore my bank account’s plaintive cr …
The Federal Trade Commission recently issued a report titled Virtual Worlds and Kids: Mapping the Risks, that examined 27 virtual online worlds. The sites the FTC talked about included digital playgrounds such as Build a Bearville, IMVU, Neopets, Runes …
Kids are stepping it up in Boston. A panel of 14 teens recently started pointing to some contemporary music and telling their peers, “watch out for this junk.” And their list of noxious tunes included well-known hits from artists such as Lady Gaga an …
A while back I spouted a bit about director Roman Polanski, his 30-year-old sex crimes, and the celebrities who rallied together demanding that he be exonerated. Well, a tiny tidbit of side news about that ongoing saga popped up recently. And I thought …
That cute kid from High School Musical meets the feted Orson Welles. Has the Twilight Zone finally made its Broadway bow?
I know we talked a little about lies in a recent blog, but here’s another little tidbit from a different angle. A new study from the Josephson Institute of Ethics suggests a strong connection between dishonest teens and dishonest adults. If you make a …
Ebenezer Scrooge is one of the most delightful grumpy old men there’s ever been. Seriously. Can you think of any better? Why even the old codgers from The Muppets or Fred Sanford from Sanford and Son couldn’t hold a candle to the gloriously irascible o …
In Robert Zemeckis’ newest animated anthem, Jim Carrey plays Scrooge and the three ghosts who goad him into goodness. Is the result one of the best/scariest/coolest Christmas Carols ever?
We all know that today’s media, in its many forms, can impact society. That’s what the whole premise of advertising is based on, after all. Well, now a coalition of atheist groups is hoping that advertising will help them in their own cause. They’ll so …
The movie-going experience is dead. Or so I’ve heard. And looking at the growing number of home theaters in the U.S., skyrocketing ticket prices, easy movie downloads and recent Pew Research numbers—showing that a hefty 75% of respondents would rather …
A few weekends back, the Fab Four rang out in my house in all their remixed and reanimated, digitized and repackaged glory. That’s right: I was one of mooing masses who quickly ran out and bought (for the second, no, third, wait, fourth time) my favori …
