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.
Taylor Swift’s latest ode to a bad breakup kicks country music to the curb in a bid for total pop domination.
Vin Diesel and Paul Walker reboot and reunite as a “bad” guy trying to do good and a “good” guy who often does bad.
What is constant connectivity doing to our brains? That, in a nutshell, is the question Newsweek writer Tony Dokoupil explores in his July 16 cover story for that magazine, “Tweets. Texts. Email. Posts. Is the Onslaught Making Us Crazy?” The short answ …
Keira Knightley laces up her corset yet again in this historic biopic about a woman whose dreams of love get smashed—as our dreams of watching a clean movie suffer the same fate.
Working at Plugged In, I have a front-row seat when it comes to observing trends in our culture. And one of the ones we’ve talked about for years is our society’s slow-but-steady descent into increasing coarseness. You don’t have to look very hard to f …
Marcus Mumford and Co. return with a triumphal folk shout-out to a special someone … or perhaps God?
My family and I have been watching the Olympics over the past week. A lot, actually. You see, my wife started swimming competitively when she was but a wee lass, and she continued doing so all the way through college. (I, in contrast, mostly just playe …
Rapper Rick Ross admires God’s honorable, forgiving character. But he has no intention of imitating it.
One of the ways technology and consumerism interact in our culture is this: Technology is ever advancing, it seems, in its ability to give us exactly what we want, as fast as we can possibly get it and at the cheapest possible price. Once upon a time, …
Divorce and single parenthood aren’t topics that turn up in rap very often. They do on Nas’ latest effort … right alongside the more typical subjects we’re used to hearing about.
This track’s title, “Take a Little Ride,” may well mean more than just Jason driving his Chevy down to the levy.
Why are hundreds of millions of people watching a strange video of a Korean man dancing like he’s riding a horse? Why is his song No. 1 on iTunes?
X3’s government-sponsored cure for mutants ignites a war between Ian McKellen’s nefarious Brotherhood of Mutants and Patrick Stewart’s X-Men.
The Dark Knight Rises lands in theaters on July 20. And already there’s feverish speculation regarding just how high the opening-weekend box office will go—specifically, whether the final film in Christopher Nolan’s Dark Knight trilogy can top The Aven …
