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How Rihanna turned everything upside down with new album ‘Anti’
Other surprise albumsSomehow in the age of social media oversharing, keeping an entire album a secret seems almost impossible. But it's actually becoming more popular, with varying results. (Sorry, U2.)...

For Carly Rae Jepsen, it’s a ‘Gimme Love’ year
Call Carly Rae Jepsen one of 2015's breakout stars. Her album Emotion (School Boy/Interscope) is one of the year's best, with praise raining down from nearly every corner. "It's blowing...

Do we want Tina Fey to be a movie star?
T aylor Swift says Tina Fey is going to hell; Sarah Palin would probably like to send her. Fey recently suggested to some Hollywood paparazzi that they perform anatomical acts...

Gemma Arterton’s Gretel is a witch butt kicker
N EW YORK -- If Lincoln can fight vampires, and a Jane Austen heroine zombies, then why not "Hansel & Gretel: Witch Hunters," opening Friday? And as the distaff half...

TV: Horror on the tube
'T he Walking Dead." "American Horror Story." "True Blood." TV dares to scare us every day now. Who needs Halloween? All of us, apparently. Networks are ramping up eerie episodes...

FILM: ‘Three Stooges’ hits the big screen
T he sound of "nyuk, nyuk, nyuk" will be heard across the land when "The Three Stooges" -- the Farrelly brothers' long-awaited tribute to the slapstick comedy legends -- opens...

FILM: A new Snow White with ‘Mirror Mirror’
T here's nothing Hollywood likes better than a story with legs, even very short legs, and when the new live-action fairy tale "Mirror Mirror" opens Friday, it will be telling...

Survival flicks: Live or let die?
T his Friday, Liam Neeson will don a parka and head for Alaska in "The Grey," an action-survival film about a group of oil-rig workers whose plane crashes in the...

2011’s best singles
A great pop song either helps you remember or makes you forget everything around you for three minutes or so. In this year of economic and cultural uncertainty, there sure...

2011’s best singles
A great pop song either helps you remember or makes you forget everything around you for three minutes or so. In this year of economic and cultural uncertainty, there sure...