Contributor: Adam R. Holz

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.

Tim Tebow’s Secret Weapon: Good Parents?

In the last seven weeks, Denver Broncos quarterback Tim Tebow has led his team to six remarkable, unlikely victories in seven outings. And approximately 14,116,288,201 articles about every aspect of his equally unlikely story—from his faith to his thro …

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El Camino

The Black Keys’ Grammy-winning album El Camino is as stripped-down and unpretentious as the peculiar automobile it’s named after.

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Lioness: Hidden Treasures

A posthumous collection from the mercurial British neo-soul singer lays bare the soul of a lost woman who longed to be found … but ran out of time.

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Video Games: Boon or Bane? Part 2

Editor’s Note: Yesterday, Bob Hoose discussed some of the evidence suggesting that video games can be beneficial—serving to improve hand-eye coordination, reduce stress and even thicken the cortex of the brain. But all games are not created equal. Toda …

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My Week With Marilyn

What happens when the most famous woman in the world falls (if ever so briefly) in love with a 23-year-old production assistant on a movie set? My Week With Marilyn more than answers that question.

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Hugo

Academy Award-winning director Martin Scorsese is well known for his dark and gritty R-rated dramas. What happens when he decides to make a kinder, gentler movie aimed at a young audience? Hugo is the spectacular answer to that question.

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Here and Now

Inspiration and degradation fight for the spotlight on Nickelback’s seventh album.

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Elevate

Nickelodeon has copied a few pages from the fake/real band playbook used by Disney Channel (or was it NBC back in the days of the Monkees?) with its boy band Big Time Rush. Too bad a few of the sheets got smudged.

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“Set Fire to the Rain”

Adele’s preternatural pipes smolder with passion and pain as she pines the loss of a beloved liar whose deceptive embrace she fears she cannot live without.

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Talk That Talk

Rihanna might as well face it: She’s addicted to love. Or, at the very least, lust.

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Break the Spell

Chris Daughtry told American Idol host Ryan Seacrest that his band’s third album is “way more upbeat, way more positive lyrically than the last two records.” So is it?

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Happy Feet Two

Twice as many happy feet? More like, It’d be a feat for us to be completely happy about this cuddly kids sequel.

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Alvin and the Chipmunks: Chipwrecked

The ‘Munks cover the likes of Lady Gaga, LMFAO and Katy Perry, begging this question: Is merely editing the really obvious references to sex and alcohol enough to make sordid and sexy songs “kid friendly”?

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Take Care

Drake’s second album finds the post-DeGrassi rapper admitting that worldly excess doesn’t satisfy his soul. But that doesn’t stop him from pursuing it with gusto.

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57 Channels (and Nothin’ On)

I was watching the Broncos play the Raiders on Sunday afternoon (go Tebow!) when a DirecTV commercial caught my attention. I wasn’t paying much attention until a voice at the end of the ad trumpeted that anyone who signed up now would receive (among ot …

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