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.
Director Barry Levinson has created a taut and textured mob movie. But that doesn’t make it an easy trip to the theater.
‘A Working Man’ unleashes a former black-op soldier to eviscerate human traffickers. But will it leave you cheering … or blanching?
‘The Woman in the Yard’ uses creepy horror to sketch out its metaphorical lesson.
There’s a lot to enjoy here, but don’t let the cartoony visuals fool you. There are adult bits and pieces in this interdimensional quest, too.
Each year the Consumer Electronics Show (CES) presents a showcase of all sorts of new wiz-bang electronics, computer hardware and software innovations. This year it was hosted in Las Vegas at a convention center that encompassed some 2.9 million square …
‘Assassin’s Creed Shadows” takes its shadow-slipping storyline to feudal Japan. The result? Beauty and gore in equal measure.
The new ‘Carmen Sandiego’ game won’t stump older detectives, but young rookies may enjoy solving crime in a red fedora and trench coat.
Like the 2019 documentary of the same name, ‘Last Breath’ tells a taut tale of daring rescue, with just a few spiny, content sea urchins.
Players encounter a few messy moments in this co-op game. But all-in-all, ‘Split Fiction’ is a fun fiction.
Bash, smash, hack and slash. ‘Monster Hunter Wilds’ has T-rated versions of all that on a mammoth monster scale.
‘Heart Eyes’ is eardrum-scorchingly foul, and its flesh-hacking is gruesome and brutal (even when it’s trying to elicit a smile).
