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.
If you think battling robots in space will be less messy for human combatants, think again.
As this fright flick’s occult mayhem gets predictably unleashed, it quickly falls back on all that evil-spirit-possession, scream-and-die blech that one might expect from this tired genre.
Some funny flicks weave a little too much yuck in with their yuk-yuk. Before you know it, a guffaw becomes an “Are the kids watching this?” wince. Keeping Up With The Joneses is one of those movies.
With a little parental boundary-setting and guidance, the colorful characters and strategic maneuvering in the latest Civilization contest can be a whole lot of fun.
Batman gets an immersive virtual reality treatment that’s darker than you might expect.
The new age of virtual gaming begins with a virtual tank contest from long, long ago.
Is this next-gen Gears of War title a kinder, gentler version of its graphically gory predecessors? Gears action without Gears goop? Nah.
From shrapnel-torn flesh to protruding bones, thundering eruptions to chunks of metal yanked from hideous wounds, this heroic story is not an easy film to experience.
Pixar-like moments? Sweet scenes that require wiping a tear from your grown-up eye? Nope, not a one. But then there aren’t any cannibals or exotic words you’d hate to have repeated, either.
While it isn’t explicitly a movie about God, The Light Between Oceans powerfully, poignantly deals with the passion, sacrifice, grace and moral truth that originate from that heavenly source.
The Turing Test offers a collection of increasingly difficult puzzles and a deep space mystery in a man-versus-machine contest.
