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.
The gamemakers are asking players to think about … thinking. And that’s something you don’t regularly encounter when you pick up a game controller.
This intriguing-but-flawed M-rated thriller earnestly ponders the influence of our choices from the perspective of a time-warping teen girl.
Jokes about what adults will be able to, um, “bear” aside, this is really a pretty awful kid’s film.
That Dragon, Cancer is more of an experience than a game. An unforgettable one.
There are hanging corpses, self-harming delusions and jump scenes aplenty in this pointless pic. Mostly, though, The Forest shambles around mindlessly.
Director Ericson Core drives a needle full of adrenaline into the original pic’s heart and blows the scope out to a global extreme-sports perspective.
What can you say about yet another Chipmunk movie? Surely nothing all that surprising. Or even enlightening.
The latest entry in the Just Cause franchise is a lot like Grand Theft Auto … only with tanks, grenades and weapons of mass destruction.
Rainbow Six Siege is one of a new breed of online shooters that’s all about short, intense, close quarters combat between two teams. And very little else.
Those who do decide to jump in this rambunctious and alternate-reality river will at least find a few kid-focused lessons.
Based on an Oscar-winning Argentinean drama, this is a film that’s uncomfortable and sometimes downright difficult to watch.
