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.
R&B singer Jason Derulo says he speaks the language of love. But he forgot how to translate the word lust.
The fourth studio album from this popular L.A.-based metal quintet delivers a handful of spiritual musings … and so many fistfuls of obscenity-spewing rage that we can only wonder, What would Tipper think?
Following a terrorist bombing of Americans in Saudi Arabia, an FBI team embarks on a chaotic quest for truth that feels like one part ‘CSI: Riyadh,’ one part ‘Black Hawk Down.’
The title of the latest hit from these five popsters from Britain and Ireland makes a big, bold claim. So … is it?
The soundtrack for Disney’s retro musical Teen Beach Movie surfs the sounds—and all the accompanying twitterpation—of the ’60s beach party scene.
Piano-playing singer-songwriter Sara Bareilles returns with a mature effort exploring the geography of love’s ups and downs … as well as some (messy) messages about telling the truth.
This Transformers-meets-Godzilla battler is long on apocalyptic mayhem … but not short on brave humans caught up in the carnage.
Jay Z’s Magna Carta Holy Grail is his first album since the birth of his daughter, Blue Ivy. Has the hip-hop mogul’s transition into fatherhood changed him?
The latest hit from Will and Jada Pinkett Smith’s daughter Willow might feel fairly tame … if she were 25 instead of 12.
This Swedish EDM practitioner has adopted what he calls a “cool” Buddhist moniker and the idea, on “Wake Me Up,” that the dreamers always win in the end.
The seventh album from this longtime Christian band sports a shiny pop sheen … as well as some unexpected reliability concerns.
Christian metalcore act August Burns Red continues to push the envelope, both musically (within an already bruising genre) and lyrically.
Not just anyone gets to work as a scarer at Monsters, Inc.—a lesson some of its most famous future employees have to learn the hard way. (But first there are a few crazy college parties to crash.)
