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.
The first hit from the hard rock outfit Devour the Day ponders surprisingly substantive questions about goodness and God—namely whether we can achieve the former without the latter.
This cups-happy remake of a 1931 Carter Family folk song for the film Pitch Perfect is one of the surprise hits of 2013.
Boys will be boys and girls will be toys. That’s pretty much the sum total of the beer-drinkin’, truck drivin’, tobacco chewin’, down-by-the-riverside kissin’ activities in the new Blake Shelton hit.
Nicolas Cage reprises his role as treasure hunter Benjamin Franklin Gates in movie No. 2 of a high-impact but PG-rated action series.
This terrorist thriller starring Gerard Butler as a former Secret Service agent repelling North Korean terrorists could have been titled Die Hard 6: White House Wasteland.
If Imagine Dragons had it in ’em to write a really, really happy song, it would probably sound a lot like “Best Day of My Life.”
JT pays sentimental, sensual and suggestive tribute to his new bride, Jessica Biel.
This quietly incendiary major-label debut from 25-year-old Kacey Musgraves takes all those familiar country clichés … and douses them with gasoline.
Why is Queen Bey sounding so angry and insecure, living as she does on the top of the world? Why is she so profane? The musical facts just don’t add up.
Fast cars. Fierce rivalries. Industrial espionage. You’d be forgiven for thinking this was ‘The Fast and the Furious 3.’
Some “good” Disney girls do some very bad things in this graphically stylized, hypersexualized, hyperviolent (im)morality tale from notorious director Harmony Korine.
The biggest hit of R&B singer Robin Thicke’s career doesn’t do fans any favors. Or women. Or our culture. Or our basic morality. (Does it tell you something when YouTube decides to ban his video?)
