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.

Blades of Glory

Will Ferrell teams up with Jon Heder (‘Napoleon Dynamite’) in a bawdy comedy about rival figure skaters who combine their talents to become the world’s first men’s pairs team.

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Facebook and the First Amendment Go to School

Facebook. Free speech. High school. Mix them together and what do you get? A volatile combination. Just ask Katie Evans. In 2007, then 17-year-old Evans set up a Facebook page to complain about an instructor she dubbed “the worst teacher I’ve ever met. …

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Sigh No More

This Grammy-nominated British folk foursome may not have been named Best New Artist this year. But they’re having a breakthrough year anyway. And they’re having it on the back of a shockingly positive album. (With a twist.)

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Valentine’s Day

Garry Marshall is an iconic helmsman in Hollywood—for a whole lot more reasons than just The Princess Diaries, Pretty Woman and Beaches. Maybe that’s why half the actors in California showed up to give him chocolates on Valentine’s Day.

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Bowling Over ‘M*A*S*H’

I should have been a baseball fan. Why, you ask? Well, I like records. They’re interesting. And baseball has lots o’ records. So does TV. And one of the biggies, a record that’s withstood everything television programmers could hurl at it for 27 years, …

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“Window Seat”

Erykah Badu’s latest song is about a woman getting out of town to collect her thoughts. But the lyrics aren’t what have people talking.

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Tonight

It’s been 10 years since dc Talk decided to take a break. But that’s hardly slowed rapper/singer tobyMac, whose fourth solo effort since the band dispersed delivers a satisfying helping of what he calls “musical gumbo.”

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Soldier of Love

After a 10-year absence, Sade returns with another album full of smoldering, sophisticated and sad songs about love found … and lost.

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Georgia Rule

Jane Fonda, Felicity Huffman and Lindsay Lohan star in Garry Marshall’s raw, racy and emotional story about family dysfunction, addiction and redemption.

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United 93

On Sept. 11, 2001, terrorists sought to transform four U.S. commercial jets into deadly guided missles. Three hit their assigned targets. United 93 did not.

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It’s Good to Be the King

OK, so maybe he is king of the world. The movie world, at least. I’m talking, of course, about director James Cameron. On Tuesday, his sci-fi behemoth Avatar surpassed Titanic—also a Cameron-helmed film—as the highest-grossing North American film of al …

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Who I Am

Nick Jonas’ debut solo outing flits from rock to pop to R&B. But while the sonic spectrum he traverses is slightly more diverse than the Jonas Brothers’, the emotional spectrum isn’t.

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White Knight Chronicles

First released in Japan, this fantasy role-playing game has now been retooled for the rest of the gaming world. Maybe it worked better in its native tongue.

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Rebirth

Lil Wayne follows up his triple-platinum 2008 effort Tha Carter III with a rock album full of bombast, electric guitars and … the same foul subject matter.

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The 90-Hour Media Week

If you surf any given news site on any given day, you’re likely to find some university or scientist that’s published the latest research on this, that or the other. Not all of them are pertinent to what we do here at Plugged In, and not all of them ar …

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