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.

F.A.M.E.

You’d think Mr. Brown would be on his best behavior these days. But you’d think wrong. He’s dead set on once again convincing the world that he’s a “bad man.” Um, Is that Justin Bieber’s voice we hear on Track 8?

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“Give Me Everything”

Pitbull teams up with Ne-Yo and Nayer to offer some sensual suggestions about how to spend the night if you don’t think you need to bother with tomorrow.

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Tragedy and Culture, Godzilla and God

Amid the wall-to-wall coverage of the tragic events in Japan this week, I stumbled across an intriguing article and photo essay on the website for Foreign Policy magazine. And that article, it turns out, prompted a whole series of reflections for me ab …

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“Tonight Tonight”

How can you mend a broken heart? Well, not with disco. Not anymore. Now you’ll be heading to a dance party of another sort if you take Hot Chelle Rae’s pop-rock advice.

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Endgame

The sixth set of songs from this veteran Chicago punk outfit seethes with a deep (and at times profane) discontent with our society’s status quo—and traditional values.

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Doom

One of the most popular video game franchises of all time comes to the big screen—complete with all the blood, gore, violence and action that made it a hit.

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Jane Eyre

Charlotte Brontë’s definitive Gothic romance, first published in 1847, returns to the big screen for the 27th time (!) with its quietly feisty heroine’s old-fashioned notions about love, honor, truth and propriety still very much intact.

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Garfield: The Movie

Garfield has been eating lasagna, tormenting Odie and offering his pithy perspective on life for 25 years. How well does the fat cat make the leap to the big screen?

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Nothing to See Here

This morning, I was perusing news on the Internet over breakfast (the 21st century version of the newspaper, right?) when I came across a report that Charlie Sheen has purportedly reached the end of his (very long) rope. In an interview published in th …

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Hundred More Years

The sunny sophomore submission from Christian singer Francesca Battistelli majors in irrepressible likeability. In other words, she kicks curmudgeons to the curb—with nary a hint of violence.

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“Lies of the Beautiful People”

The latest single from Mötley Crüe drummer Nikki Sixx’s hard rock trio makes some provocative observations about our culture’s obsession with beauty. Its video goes further than that.

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Turn on Your Hannah Montana Heartlight

Lots of folks have been parsing Billy Ray Cyrus’ extensive interview in the March issue of GQ. Talking to interviewer Chris Heath, Cyrus spoke in great detail about his anguish regarding the way he’s parented Miley. In a nutshell, he talked about how w …

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Premonition

Sandra Bullock’s nonlinear thriller explores foresight, family and faithfulness. But then you probably already had a strange feeling that that was what this film was about.

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21

Adele’s sophomore neo-soul effort pulls no punches when it comes to mournful, melancholy and wince-inducing recollections of love lost and hearts shattered.

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Elvis has Left the Billboard

Move over, Elvis. Looks like there’s a new king in town. I’m talking, of course, about Fox’s hit show Glee—and the fact that as of this week, it has spawned more Hot 100 singles than any artist in the chart’s 52-year history. Before this week, the King …

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