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.
On the way home from work last night, I found myself thinking about the latest self-inflicted travails of actress Lindsay Lohan. Now, even if you don’t pay much attention to the latest pop culture chatter about celebs’ dirty laundry, it’s been almost i …
This six-piece Georgia country act continues to build momentum with its four-part harmonies and good-ol’-boy salutes to familiar country virtues … and vices.
If there was a pop-culture-specific dictionary, and you looked up the word infamous, the entry would say, “See MTV Video Music Awards.” For a couple of decades now, the cable channel formerly known as Music Television has excelled at putting on an annu …
Linkin Park explores new musical territory and simultaneously returns to its rap roots in this brooding concept album about the threat of apocalyptic destruction.
Anberlin’s soaring rock melodies explore the emotional distance between light and dark in the confounding context of romantic success and failure.
I have a confession to make, and it’s a bit of an odd one: I love statistics. It’s odd since I’m a word guy with a phobia of numbers that goes back to being put in pre-algebra instead of algebra in 8th grade (but that’s another story for another time). …
George Clooney’s latest is being marketed as something like a James Bond or Jason Bourne film. It’s nothing like that at all.
The 2010 entry in the long-running Metroid franchise fuses traditional third-person shooter elements with motion-controlled, first-person, sci-fi action.
This lightweight romcom actually tries to make a serious point about … fiscal responsibility.
I’d like to begin today with a simple confession: My wife and I have always liked Shark Week. Ever since we met in 2003, Discovery Channel’s end-of-summer celebration of all things shark has been must-see TV for us. Just as Mutual of Omaha’s Wild Kingd …
Christopher Nolan’s mind-bending, genre-blending, sci-fi-heist thriller Inception ruled the weekend box office for a second week in a row, taking in another $43.5 million and holding off Angelina Jolie’s Salt, which nabbed $36.5 million. In its third w …
I wasn’t a very happy kid. I was intense. Moody. Liked things my way. Got mad—really mad—when things didn’t go my way. God must have known I needed some help, because in 5th grade I met Joe. Joe was pretty much my polar opposite. He was even-keeled whe …
I wonder, sometimes, what the future holds for non-digital entertainment. And an unlikely event raised that question for me earlier this week. My parents moved to town last weekend, bringing with them several boxes of miscellaneous flotsam and jetsam t …
