Contributor: Adam R. Holz

In its first five days in foreign theaters, Marvel’s The Avengers raked in a whopping $185.1 million. That’s right. By the time the latest supersized superhero flick spools up in American theaters this Friday, it will likely have pocketed somewhere nor …

B.o.B’s sophomore effort dabbles in nasty hip-hop clichés even as it fuses them with infectious pop hooks and guest contributions from the likes of Lil Wayne, T.I., Chris Brown, Nicki Minaj and … Taylor Swift?

Carrie Underwood says her fans love her revenge songs. So she’s stuck two of them right at the front of Blown Away.

So what would you do on a lazy summer day, floatin’ in the middle of a lake on a “Pontoon”? Well, this is a country song, so Little Big Town’s probably doin’ a bit more drinkin’ than you might.

The latest stop-motion effort from the creators of Chicken Run and Wallace & Gromit takes to the high seas in search of glory, plunder and (some low-brow) laughs.

Se7en and Saw meet Misery here. But any way you slice it, this gothic thriller about a serial killer bringing Edgar Allen Poe’s macabre imagination to death is just a mess.

When Jason Statham shows up in an R-rated actioner, you can instantly assume a high body count. This time it’s in the service of saving a young girl who, just like moviegoers, isn’t shielded even a little bit from the violence all around her.

Call it the Katniss Effect. Around the country, anecdotal evidence suggests that a fair number of girls are picking up Hunger Games heroine Katniss Everdeen’s weapon of choice: the bow. “All of a sudden, sales of bows have, like, tripled,” Paul Haines, …

The latest hit from French EDM maestro David Guetta unfurls a beat-laden backdrop for singer Sia to deliver a message of steely determination in the face of criticism. The video, in contrast, focuses on steely retaliation.

Madonna and Nicki Minaj represent different generations. But both singers know a thing or two about provoking the status quo for the sake of generating attention. Madonna’s been perfecting her shock shtick since the mid-’80s, of course. And with her la …

Has feel-good acoustic crooner Jason Mraz grown so embittered by love that he’s now comparing it to profanity?

You’ll see that this veteran Canadian modern rock outfit’s music is drenched with references to the band’s Christian faith … if you know where to look for them.

In classic Linkin Park style—both lyrically and sonically—”Burn It Down” splits the difference between brooding self-awareness and brooding self-destruction.

Maroon 5’s latest begs the question of whether frontman Adam Levine has been spending too much time listening to fellow Voice judge Cee Lo Green’s last hit.

Yet another gritty, grimy police story—this time chronicling the efforts of an NYPD captain to take down a Russian kingpin … even as his rebellious brother gets caught in the crossfire.