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.
This is the kind of movie that will have conscientious parents face-palming and shaking their heads.
If you know a young rock fan in need of a redemptive message, you’d be hard put to find a better one than “My Champion.”
Tim Burton’s infatuation with the macabre and the grim is very much present here.
Mac Miller’s more famous girlfriend, Ariana Grande, didn’t want to dish details about him to Ellen DeGeneres. Miller has no problem sharing much more here.
Shaun Mendes often sounds like a bluesy old soul here, spinning stories of love, sex and breakups that belie the fact that he’s still actually a teenager.
Moby’s latest provocatively critiques our technology-addicted culture and suggests that it’s failing to deliver deeper relationships.
This hedonistic hip-hop hit owes much of its chart-topping success to a surprising influence: a viral internet craze known as the Mannequin Challenge.
Kings of Leon’s latest includes one provocatively positive lyric amid an otherwise edgy narrative about two volatile characters.
When the Bough Breaks paints a nasty, bloody, worst-case-scenario picture of what can (theoretically) happen when using a surrogate to have a baby goes really, really wrong.
Jason Aldean tips his hat to the work ethic and dignity of his country constituency in flyover country. Most of the time, though, he’s just drinking.
