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.
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 …
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.
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.
