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.
So while How to Train Your Dragon 2 is every bit as entertaining and engaging as its predecessor, it’s traded some of the whimsical, childlike wonder for a more nuanced examination of good and evil.
Robert De Niro steps into the shoes of a lonely widower trying to reconnect with kids who are all harboring damaging secrets from their perfectionist father.
Brad Pitt! Angelina Jolie! What more is there to say about this assassin/spy flick? Well, actually…
All the components of newcomer Meghan Trainor’s neo doo-wop hit add up to having a healthy body image. But a saucy sexiness subtracts from the positivity.
There’s a boy band tsunami swirling out in the Pacific—and it’s about to hit American shores in the form of four lyrical lads from Australia. Too bad their music isn’t as “good” as this track’s title suggests.
As Justin Bieber’s career veers erratically into Michael Jackson eccentricity and rock star debauchery, the Internet has graciously served up the heir apparent to his arguably vacated teenybop throne.
Another superhero takes to the skies, flying over familiar territory. Does he stay true to the will of the green, or fearfully give in to the yellow?
Wes Craven’s latest nightmare revolves around the ghost of a serial killer who’s apparently returned to wreak vengeance upon the seven children born the night of his death.
The couple is on their way to marriage, but, as the song suggests, as things start heating up, it gets distasteful long before OMI puts a ring on it.
The Fault in Our Stars is one of the most tragic romantic stories about love and death in recent memory. No surprise, then, that its soundtrack echoes those aching, yearning, mournful … and hopeful themes.
Coldplay focuses on a solitary, autobiographical subject: the heart of a man struggling to come to terms with a broken relationship.
What should a brokenhearted young woman do to numb the memory of her ex? The title of Lady Antebellum’s latest (“Bartender”) gives us a pretty good clue.
A beautiful Japanese woman discovers that becoming a glamorous geisha means leaving behind her own hope for true love. Based on Arthur Golden’s popular 1997 novel, and starring Ziyi Zhang, Michelle Yeoh and Ken Watanabe.
