In his latest movie, The Woman In Black, Dan traded his Hogwarts uniform for a totally new role as a Dad.
Natalia brings you the latest news on Adele’s interview with Anderson Cooper, Kristen Bell’s interview on Ellen is auto tuned, Ladyhawke’s latest music video and much more!
Natalia discusses what’s new with Pharrell Williams and her thoughts on Karl Lagerfeld’s mean comments towards Adele’s weight. She also shows a roster of animals behaving like humans and, wait until you see the new size of coffee available at Starbucks!
Natalia dishes the latest news on the Juno Awards nominees, the upcoming Spiderman 3D film starring Emma Stone and Andrew Garfield and is Katy Perry hooking up with Tim Tebow? Watch today’s episode to find out.
When The Kooks are in the studio they’re focused and most importantly, sober. Watch Hugh and Luke explain their reasoning below.
The Kooks released a new album called “Junk of the Heart,” and you would think Hugh and Luke would be very excited about it. Well, they seemed rather indifferent to be honest. We spoke about that and why they don’t care about critics.
Natalia dishes the latest in entertainment news on Joan Rivers, Lana Del Rey and a brand new trailer for the movie Hunger Games.
Natalia talks about how Snooki might be pregnant, Nicolas Cage’s Cage Rage, Elisabetta Canalis is dating Steve-O and more for Feb 1, 2012.
Natalia dishes the news on Miley Cyrus breaking her tailbone, a 100 year old woman who plays the Nintendo DS to stay young and Houston, Texas contemplating a statute of Beyonce.
David Beckham debuts a new line of underwear, the worst dressed celebrity – Shy’m and Matthew Broderick is back as Ferris Bueller with a brand new commercial airing during the Super Bowl on Feb 5th 2012.
Daniel Radcliffe is back with his new movie The Woman In Black. It’s a bone chilling remake of a film from the ’80s. Ironically, Daniel actually scares very easily but he’s not afraid of ghosts. In this interview he tells us what really gives him the creeps.
Next time you’re struggling to make conversation, try asking this question: “If you could invite anyone (living or dead) to the perfect house party, who would it be?”
Graffiti6 is starting to make their North American invasion, and they are hitting up the Tonight Show. Does this sound familiar? Well the Beatles made the exact same journey over 40 years ago. Naturally, @jordans_life had to make some comparisons.
Nick plays World of Warcraft. Not only that, he’s the head of his guild, demonstrating that it IS possible to juggle being a hardcore gamer with being a top-selling recording artist.
During a LIVE interview on andPOP.com Nick Carter gave out a number and took phone calls from his fans. These were real phone calls from real fans who we gave exclusive access to one of the biggest recording artists of our generation.
There were great questions about music, fitness, the backstreet boys but the most popular question, however, was about his underwear. In this clip Nick talks about his his ‘Haynes’ and covering his fans with glow in the dark paint.
When releasing new music today, half the battle is online promotion. However, contests, signed merch and giveaways aren’t always the best solutions. When working on their latest album, Hedley came up with a brilliant idea, they decided to make trailers.
It’s hard to prepare for an interview with Hedley. So in this interview, we threw caution to the wind, got a 24 of beer and broadcast the interview live on our USTREAM (andPOP.tv). Eventually Jacob, Dave and @jordans_life ended up talking about hairy legs, their newest music video and more.
Diamandis from Marina and The Diamonds talks to us about her very serious disease. It’s called synaesthetic. And we lied, it’s not a disease. More like a cool condition. Diamandis explains further.
Would you be embarrassed if someone scrolled through your iPod? We sit down with Spee and Brendan to talk about the diverse music on their playlist.
I’m starting to think digital cable is just not enough for me.
First I lose MTV Canada to Razer and now I discover an incredible new reality show on a channel only accessible in Canada by satellite (it appears on FX in the US)! Sigh. I have resorted to “acquiring” episodes (shh!) and despite the questionable legality of doing so, this show is worth it.
This show I speak of is called “30 Days” and is the brainchild of clever documentarian Morgan Spurlock, the man who forever turned me off of fast food with his Oscar-nominated doc “Supersize Me”.
The concept is simple: for 30 days a person is forced to live a lifestyle totally foreign to them, and must abide by set rules, all in the hopes of gaining a greater awareness of different lifestyle. Comfort zones be damned.
Along the way, Spurlock guides the viewer with his narration, clips of conversation with people on the street about their opinions, as well as basic explanations of the issues in each respective episode.
One episode plops an ultra-conservative homophobic red-stater right in the heart of American gay culture in San Francisco where he is forced to live with a gay roommate, play on a gay sports team, attend gay-friendly Church services and the like.
Another episode shows Spurlock himself (and his fiancee) trying to live on American minimum wage for a month, the equivalent of about $5.50 US. The show’s website even includes a fun (yet sadly realistic) “game” where you enter how much you spend monthly on necessities such as food, shelter, and transportation to see how long you would last.
Let’s just say I wouldn’t last too long.
Though I haven’t seen all the episodes, of the ones I have seen, my favourite centered around David Stacy, a 33-year-old practicing Christian who must live as a Muslim for 30 days, adopting the strict customs of his host family in Dearborne, Michigan, a city densely populated with a large Muslim community.
From day one, Stacy must grow a beard, wear traditional robes and is forced to fly from his home in West Virginia in full attire. He faces the first hint of “different treatment” when surprise, surprise: Stacy is met with bewildered stares from people at the airport and is singled out for a security check and made to take off his shoes.
For the duration of his stay, Stacy takes Arabic classes, only consumes Halal meat, gives up alcohol and pork, learns how to pray, and tries to reconcile the image he has of Muslims with the reality he is faced with. His largest struggle throughout his time was his difficulty “accepting” a religion that does not believe Jesus is the Son of God.
When sent out to get signatures for an anti racial profiling petition, Stacy is forced to come face to face with those who view all Muslims as terrorists.
At the end of the show, Stacy seems to walk away much wiser and more accepting of the religion, acknowleging that he would defend it if he had to.
While I really appreciated the episode, my only criticism was that it seemed as though Spurlock purposely picked an extremely religious family that, I would argue, is not necessarily representative of the majority of American or even North American Muslims. While extreme culture shock IS the point of the show, I would have liked to Stacy placed with a “less religious family” so he could see the vast similarities between his own life and theirs, and not just the differences.
Nonetheless, if you have FX watch this show, if you don’t find a way to see it, it will not only open the eyes of the person featured, but maybe yours as well.
