After serving as an associate editor at NavPress’ Discipleship Journal and consulting editor for Current Thoughts and Trends, Adam now oversees the editing and publishing of Plugged In’s reviews as the site’s director. He and his wife, Jennifer, have three children. In their free time, the Holzes enjoy playing games, a variety of musical instruments, swimming and … watching movies.
I have a confession to make. There are a couple of pretty big movies that I’ve never seen (at least not in their entirety in one sitting): The Wizard of Oz (the monkeys and the witch terrified me as a kid), The Sound of Music (I could sing all the song …
Ten years later, Demon Hunter is still snarling and growling out a Gospel-inspired message, aiming it squarely at its infernal adversaries.
The bluesy, incendiary debut of this Alabama-based roots-rock band seethes with equal parts world-weary wisdom and an earnest, innocent and hopeful outlook on the future.
Let me be honest: I’ve had my fill of The Hunger Games. Nothing against the movie, mind you. I haven’t seen the thing—which may make me one of only three dozen people in the United States that haven’t. It only feels like I have, given what I’ve heard a …
Two years ago this alternative folk-rock outfit won Iceland’s national battle of the bands contest. Now they’re the biggest musical export in their country’s history, delivering to the world their haunting mythological storytelling.
Pink Friday: Roman Reloaded throws the gauntlet down and then puts a bullet through it. This is Nicki Minaj’s big bid for total pop star domination as she alternates wildly between filthy gangsta rap excess and some surprisingly vulnerable confessions about love and insecurity.
Pink Friday: Roman Reloaded throws the gauntlet down and then puts a bullet through it. This is Nicki Minaj’s big bid for total pop star domination as she alternates wildly between filthy gangsta rap excess and some surprisingly vulnerable confessions about love and insecurity.
In some ways, The Lumineers are marching to Mumford & Sons’ massively popular folk rock drumbeat. In other ways, this rising Denver trio has taken a fork in the road leading in a completely different lyrical direction.
The Dragons imagine, it seems, soldiering on after a nuclear apocalypse. Then again, maybe “Radioactive” is about something else altogether … like stuffed animals forced to fight to the death.
JLo all but proves the old saw about pop music and dancing only leading to one thing.
A middle-aged TV weatherman struggles to come to grips with his fragmenting family relationships and his lack of purpose in life—a melancholy midlife crisis in slow motion.
Justin Bieber, who’s now 18, can still hit the high notes. But on the first single from his third album, he displays some seductive new vocal skills that would make Barry White smile … but may make a few parents frown.
One of my fondest memories of growing up is reading our family’s New Book of Knowledge Encyclopedia set. It’s geeky, I know, but as a child I spent countless hours exploring our 1974 set. Whatever I wanted to learn about, it was in there: peregrine fal …
