Contributor: Adam R. Holz

In a world that’s one part The Matrix, one part Sleepless in Seattle, Matt Damon tries to outwit those guys in fedoras who are determined to keep him away from the woman he loves.

Kevin Costner squares off against Octavia Spencer in a dramedy about race, identity, love, family, addiction and redemption.

Singer-songwriter Sam Martin’s touching tribute to his unborn boy is one of the most beautiful testimonies to faithful fatherhood and the sanctity of human life you’re likely to hear, well, ever.

What does James Bond’s Pierce Brosnan do for an encore? He retires as a diamond thief to the Caribbean with a scantily clad Salma Hayek on his arm.

Silentó’s song “Watch Me (Whip/Nae Nae)” has ignited the viral dance sensation of 2015 via its oft-imitated video.

Curvaceous cars and flashy females compete for screen time in yet another homage to illegal street racing, this time sponsored by millionaires gambling on the outcomes.

What do you get when Rihanna, Kanye West and Paul McCartney make a song together? Well, it’ll take a tad longer than FourFiveSeconds to describe the result.

Marilyn Manson’s ninth studio album marinates in brooding, opaque, spiritually sordid imagery that, while not as grotesque as it might have been 20 years ago, still has no lack of corrosive hostility.

Fall Out Boy albums are always interpretive exercises in sifting lyrical wheat from chaff or, say, beauty from psychosis.

Sadly, there’s not much at all that’s magical about Seventh Son—unless you want to talk literally about the dark sorcery its characters crave.

The video for Adam Levine and Co.’s smash “Sugar” is so sweet and fun you might not realize at first how suggestive the song itself is.

The Taken trilogy has taken its toll on Liam Neeson in more ways than one, and he looks almost as tired and bored this time around as this predictably violent thriller feels.

Rapper Wiz Khalifa teams up with singer Charlie Puth in this emotional, chart-topping send-off for late Fast & Furious star Paul Walker.

Romance quickly gives way to an out-of-control surrender to pain and fear in Ellie Goulding’s contribution to the Fifty Shades of Grey soundtrack.

Unbroken, then, is hard to watch but easy to praise. The horror of the inhumanity it depicts is wrenching. The triumph of one man’s spirit and heart is both astounding and deeply inspiring.