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.

Bangarang

Who or what is Skrillex? The kids at the raves have known the answer for a while now. The rest of the world is just finding out.

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Bon Jovi: Dead or Alive? Yes

Celebrities have different problems than you and I do. For instance, if someone mistakenly reported online that you or I had passed on to our great reward, a few folks (like our spouses and mothers) might be sad. But it likely wouldn’t become a viral r …

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The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo

Worldwide sales of Swedish author Stieg Larsson’s Millennium trilogy have topped 65 million copies. That means The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo is popular. And it means this movie merely adds insult to injury.

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Hannah Montana & Miley Cyrus: Best of Both Worlds Concert

Disney not only proudly presents its 15-year-old superstar in concert, but also the screaming adoration of 20,000 girls.

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“Wild Ones”

Flo Rida and Australian singer Sia are the “Wild Ones,” singing about what only a rapper might (without any guilt) call the “good life.”

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Golden Globes’ Positive Picks

Every year about this time, Hollywood’s cognoscenti gather in undisclosed locations with furrowed brows to decide which of the year’s hundreds of theatrical offerings are worthy of further critical notice. And this morning marked the official kickoff o …

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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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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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