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.
What would it take for a video game to depict psychotic madness? Hellblade: Senua’s Sacrifice answers that dark question.
We find a strong dramatic proclamation made that even the most powerful of evil can be faced down by the earnestness of, and belief in, good. Less admirable are the dark and demonic things of this broad fantasy.
Savagely realistic and bloody fights to the death are this graphic film’s bread and, uh, batter.
There’s not a lot here either to blow heart kisses at or shoot steam out of your nostrils over.
This engaging building simulation game transports some of the genre’s familiar facets into a tense-but-satisfying sci-fi setting.
This sleazy, gal pals gone wild flick is anything but empowering to female audience members—or anyone else, for that matter.
Splatoon 2 gets a high-def makeover, reloading its paint guns for remarkably colorful—but mess-free—results.
This may seem like a simple building game at first blush. But there’s a whole lot more in the mix in this Nintendo 3DS title.
Michael Bay’s latest Transformer movie never transforms itself into anything worth watching.
