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 fun, old-school, kid-focused platforming adventure is kinda super.
The latest Call of Duty installment marches bloodily back to the battles where the franchise began.
Thor and Hulk have been replaced by two beefy, good ol’ boy jokesters who’d be right at home in a wisecrack-tossing Guardians of the Galaxy movie.
The ’50s costumes and scenery look authentic. But then the whole shebang nosedives into something luridly witless, foul and bloody.
The latest Wolfenstein game pits players against a cruel, alt-reality Nazi regime. Playing it feels like a cruelty of its own.
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.
“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 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.
This ferocious, M-rated sequel may be set in the milieu of Lord of the Rings. But it’s a lot more gruesome.
Another collection of chin-scratching puzzles features a new member of the Layton family leading the investigative charge.
