Contributor: Adam R. Holz

“Harry Potter. The boy who lived, come to die.” Those chilling words from Lord Voldemort bear the truth of the eighth and final installment in the Harry Potter franchise. But they also hint at a lie.

Pop-punk band Blink-182 is marking the end of their eight-year “indefinite hiatus.” Did you miss them? Or should you just blink now that they’re back?

Teleportation’s the name of the game as Hayden Christensen zips and zaps around the globe—with the extermination-minded Samuel L. Jackson hot on his trail.

Move over Katy, Taylor, Gaga and Adele, there’s a new boy band in town. To which they collectively respond, “What’s a boy band?” The Wanted want to show them.

Earlier this week I sat (or, more accurately, suffered) through the new movie Horrible Bosses, a dark comedy about three guys who decide they’ve had enough of their despotic supervisors—so much so that they begin plotting to kill them. One of those bos …

Jennifer Aniston labels her latest big-screen contribution “inexcusably raunchy” and “outrageous,” saying it “stretches the limits and crosses boundaries.” We won’t disagree with her.

Peter Gabriel hasn’t made big splashing noises since the early ’90s. The same goes for Sting. You can hear strong echoes of both men, though, in the haunting first American hit from this Belgian-Australian singer-songwriter.

Earlier this week, the United States Supreme Court struck down a 2005 California law banning the sale and rental of video games depicting the “killing, maiming, dismembering or sexually assaulting an image of a human being” to minors. (Editor’s note: T …

Selena Gomez recently told Fox News, “I should be allowed to grow up.” So how much of that does she do on her third album?

She’s one of R&B’s most revered divas. She’s the wife of unofficial hip-hop head Jay-Z. She has the No. 1 album in the country. She may soon enough run the world for real.

This rising Christian metalcore quintet from Pennsylvania administers a pummeling sonic beatdown that paradoxically brims with hope, forgiveness and redemption.

Marketing materials for this dark shooter promise a “hellish nightmare” and “paralyzing paranormal horror.” F.E.A.R. 3 does its M-rated “best” to make good on those claims.

Indie rock insiders have been waxing euphoric over Bon Iver for several years now. For the rest of us, it was 2012’s Grammy Awards that served as our first introduction.

Generally speaking, Plugged In doesn’t wade into the happenings of the sports world. Occasionally, though, something happens in that realm that’s worthy of our scrutiny. And a story that played out earlier this week offers a fascinating example of a tr …

Bruno Mars lends his hypnotic tenor to an uplifting chorus about chasing your dreams. If only the contribution from rap duo Eminem and Royce da 5’9″ soared as high.