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 19-song opus from the L.A. glam-metal act Black Veil Brides is actually—and surprisingly—more Muse than Mötley Crüe.
Bon Jovi returns with a feel-good ode to the relational power of positive thinking … accompanied by a trio of videos that recall the seedier side of the band’s hair-metal heritage.
Leatherface somehow manages to become the hero of this fetid franchise continuation of a bloody cinematic tradition … nearly four decades after the original Texas Chainsaw Massacre.
One subject we spend lots of time thinking about here at Plugged In is how media influences our culture. Each week we publish a feature called Culture Clips (check it out here if you’ve never done so before) where we often summarize stories that illust …
Plugged In is all about parental guidance. Hollywood typically isn’t. So we were pretty curious about what would happen onscreen in this Billy Crystal-Bette Midler comedy.
The man responsible for The 40-Year-Old Virgin once again pays comedic homage to the conflicts many middle-aged folks face. This time within the confines of marriage. (But not within the confines of good taste.)
Kristen Stewart joins the ensemble cast in this adaptation of Jack Kerouac’s influential 1947 novel about a young writer’s lust for worldly experience.
The unimaginable killing of 20 young children and seven adults at Sandy Hook Elementary in Newtown, Conn., last week has not only reinvigorated longstanding cultural conversations about gun control, it’s also reignited the ongoing dialogue about the im …
Director Peter Jackson returns to Middle-earth to spin out the first part of its “origins” story. But his version of The Hobbit may not be quite the way you remember Tolkien telling it.
Bruno Mars employs his considerable vocal prowess in the service of songs that are so primally sexual that even Rolling Stone calls them “smut.”
Lindsay Lohan is the walking, talking—perky—personification of luck. Until she kisses her ‘cosmic’ opposite, Chris Pine.
In our increasingly wired world, sometimes we run into really nasty things in cyberspace through no fault of our own. I had one of those experiences over the weekend. And it happened at my local YMCA of all places. I was pedaling away on a recumbent st …
Good girl Taylor Swift falls for a bad boy on “I Knew You Were Trouble.” Does she finally learn her lesson? Do we learn ours?
