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.
Back in 1984, movie violence was ratcheting ever upward—even in films with a PG rating. A nasty little beastie got baked in a microwave and exploded in Gremlins, for instance, and an unfortunate sacrificial victim got his still-beating heart ripped out …
Do you still miss Little House on the Prairie? Did you name your family’s goldfish Laura? This fourth Michael Landon Jr. adaptation of a Janette Oke book is just the thing, then.
The latest effort from Black Eyed Peas frontman and synth maestro will.i.am features hypnotic beats, a shout-out to club life … and a vulgarity-laced contribution from Britney Spears.
Rihanna doesn’t show any signs of submitting to anyone else’s idea of who she should be—or who she should be with—on her aptly titled seventh album.
American Idol’s 2012 champion strums his way through a moody, lyrically dense but mostly optimistic debut effort that fans of Dave Matthews Band and Mumford & Sons will likely love.
The latest cinematic incarnation of Leo Tolstoy’s cautionary tale about adultery stars Keira Knightley in the title role as a woman who sacrifices everything to sustain an increasingly damaging affair.
Justin Bieber delivers his vision of what, exactly, the good life really consists of: a beauty and a beat.
If you’ve been paying attention to the news during this presidential election cycle, you’ve probably noticed the wide variance among different polls. Over at Fox News or drudgereport.com, you might find polls that indicate one thing. Watch network TV, …
The calendar yesterday may have read Oct. 30, the day before Halloween. But for Star Wars fans everywhere, it was more like an early Christmas. Yesterday afternoon, surprising—nay, shocking—news began to circulate with the speed of the Millennium Falco …
Flyleaf’s latest roaring effort once again affirms faith in the face of struggle. It also serves as fiery frontwoman Lacey Sturm’s swan song.
Normally, if a movie has any hope of securing the top slot at the box office on a given weekend, it happens the first week that film is released. Every now and then, however, a big-screen story comes along and bucks that trend—which is exactly what hap …
A new bride on “Better Dig Two” tells her husband that she can’t live without him … for better or worse.
