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.
Über-producer T Bone Burnett coaxes lush, lamentation-filled efforts out of a long list of familiar and obscure contributors alike, as he tries to make this music a fitting tribute to the Hunger Games tributes.
This reality-competition import from across the pond tears a page from the classic boy-band playbook and implements it to pop perfection. Cue the screaming.
A lumpy, commitment-phobic slacker regrets fleeing from the altar … and signs up for a marathon to prove to his former fiancée that he’s changed his bail-out bachelor ways.
An Oscar-winning Pixar director makes his live-action debut telling Edgar Rice Burroughs’ influential story about a Civil War veteran who suddenly finds himself in the midst of another civil war … on Mars.
It’s the 17th studio album from The Boss, and on it, New Jersey’s favorite son dons the mantle of rock prophet, taking square aim at economic injustice, violent retaliation … and spiritual rebirth.
The only reasonable thing to do when you see a zombie—if you don’t have a large-caliber weapon, a flamethrower or a bazooka handy, that is—is to run. Countless zombie flicks have been built on the premise of shambling, scraping, rotting undead creature …
What happens when Disney loads up the Beach Party Woodie with passengers like West Side Story, Back to the Future and Grease? Teen Beach Movie happens, that’s what.
One more iconic ’80s TV hit graduates to theaters sporting big stars—Colin Farrell and Jamie Foxx—and an equally big dose of R-rated vice.
“Good Girl,” the feisty lead single from Carrie Underwood’s fourth album picks up exactly where “Before He Cheats” left off.
It’s been a while since we’ve seen someone like Adele, someone who transcends that humble descriptor “artist” and becomes something more like … a phenomenon. Exactly one year ago today, this modest British singer with the jaw-dropping neo-soul voice re …
Las Vegas indie rock act Imagine Dragons dreams up a tough world in which hope and progress are nevertheless still possible.
What do you get when you combine tight jeans, Crown Royal and a tailgate party down by the river? Luke Bryan’s latest boot-stomper answers that burning country question.
Katy Perry’s latest hit was written in 2010. But a last-minute lyrics switch makes it clear that she’s repurposed it as a metaphorical gun pointing right at her ex-husband.
Once upon a time, getting your driver’s license was a cherished right of passage, a ticket to freedom few self-respecting teens would pass up for very long. That was certainly the case with me. Growing up in a small town in Iowa, I couldn’t wait to get …
Van Halen’s last album with David Lee Roth came out just as Ronald Reagan was finishing up his first term as president. Almost 30 years later, Diamond Dave is back. And Van Halen is partying like it’s 1984 all over again. Or maybe 1978.
