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.
This is not your typical kids’ movie. There are no explosions, fantasy flights or cartoon characters to be found anywhere.
The language spewed out by these cartoon kiddos would make a longshoreman blanch.
This repeat-a-day flick features a college girl with a hangover who lives out her birthday with a sneer before being brutally murdered. Over and over and over.
“Ugh, who comes up with this stuff?” asks hero in this horror survival sequel. It’s an apt question for the game as whole, too.
Comic book glances are only used to undergird the real focus here: the contorted sexual relationship and societal struggles of Wonder Woman’s creator, his wife and a pretty college student.
This ferocious, M-rated sequel may be set in the milieu of Lord of the Rings. But it’s a lot more gruesome.
My Little Pony: The Movie is a film you can walk out of holding your tyke’s hand without feeling depressed, stressed, grumpy or guilty about having seen it.
Another collection of chin-scratching puzzles features a new member of the Layton family leading the investigative charge.
Battle of the Sexes is a film about how a gay woman—who happened to be a tennis icon—explored her sexual identity and impacted her era.
This latest LEGO tale still feels, uh, apiece with the plastic-block cinematic universe we’ve come to know so well.
Hampered by a laissez-faire, morally minimal worldview, Reese Witherspoon’s latest is a film that could have been better … but isn’t.
