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.
National Champions has passion to spare, but it’s more diatribe than compelling story.
This is probably as good a time as any to look back over this last year and see what impact COVID has had on our kids (and their screens).
So, we figured it’s time to grab several books worth highlighting from the last year and give your young readers some good suggestions.
Master Chief and Halo are back. Does their T-rating make them more family-room friendly?
Reading Rainbow is returning as a live show in 2022.
Halloween Kills’ screeching, impaling and exuberant hemorrhaging is exactly what you’d expect it to be.
Ron’s Gone Wrong doesn’t quite know how to follow through on the wrongs it gets right.
This animated family adventure about venomous Australian creatures is about as rambunctiously lovable as it could be.
It’s a fun game that’ll give you a good time, and maybe offer just a bit of cerebral heft.
Best family movies streaming on Disney+, Hulu, Amazon Prime, Netflix and HBO Max in December 2021.
Blue Bayou poignantly highlights the plight some foreign adoptees face even as it batters viewers with tough content.
As far as great family friendly games are concerned, there’s good news and bad.
Nintendo has freshened up a classic Pokémon game. But it’s still just as comforting and fun as the original.
