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.
Avril’s edging inexorably toward 30, but her fifth album is nevertheless a disappointing case study in juvenile rock ‘n’ roll clichés and profanity-laced arrested development.
Thirteen years after the first Marshall Mathers LP, Slim Shady is back. And age has not mellowed him one little bit. He’s no less murderously angry now than he was back then.
Here’s a film that’s like a clueless adolescent who tells a dirty joke over and over again, not realizing (or not caring) that it was never funny in the first place.
Christina Aguilera lends her voice to A Great Big World’s heartrending and beautifully understated plea not to let love end.
Matthew McConaughey shed 40 pounds for his role as Ron Woodroof, a promiscuous, hard-charging Texan in the 1980s who contracts AIDS and then becomes an unlikely hero (to some) in the fight against the deadly disease.
About Time is a maddeningly sweet film that, with some strategic edits, easily could have been more accessible to a much wider audience than its R rating will allow.
In a surprisingly moving bid for total pop domination, the One Direction lads tear a page out of Mumford & Sons’ emotionally earnest acoustic songbook.
This is one of the most searingly intense portraits of slavery ever committed to film, exercising onscreen brutality to bludgeon slavery’s grim, cruel and conscience-less degradation.
