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.
Adam Sandler gets serious as he teams up with Don Cheadle to tell the story of a man who lost his family in the 9/11 attacks—and how he finds hope through a friend.
Space action heroes and He-Man squads go toe-to-toe as WWI triplanes are shot out of the sky by rainbow-powered battlements.
A game about biblical end times? Not exactly. What is it about, then? Well, discerning that takes time, patience and a lot of exploring.
An inky symbiote organism takes over Spider-Man’s suit and blackens the red and blue. It makes him stronger. But at what price?
There are plenty of solidly silly circumstances and genuinely giggle-worthy gags tumbling around these cinematic fields.
Molly is turning 18, and the devil wants his due. Why wouldn’t he? Her parents sold her soul to him the day she was born.
Lost Dimension gives us a gaggle of young heroes and asks us to play something of an end-of-the-world reality TV show with them.
This flick generally glorifies all the possible train-wreck stuff of high school floundering—from drunken house parties to sneaky sexcapades to secret road trips.
Onechanbara ZII: Chaos sets its gaming sights on fleam fury, fetish fantasy … and fruit. But not necessarily in that order.
Yet another army of urban performance artists hits, ahem, the streets in Disney’s latest teen-targeted dance-and-angst flick—a sequel to 2006’s ‘Step Up.’
If Paul Rudd brings somebody suitably hapless and “entertaining” to his bosses’ meanspirited dinner party—somebody exactly like Steve Carell—the corner office could be his.
In print, the great detective once said that his methods were simply “founded upon the observation of trifles.” And that is exactly what this film does so wonderfully well.
