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?”
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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.
The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, The Witch and the Wardrobe opened this weekend and I think it?s safe to say that is? going to be the big movie to see over the holiday season for a few reasons.
First of all, it?s a great kid?s movie, with magical creatures, fantastic worlds, and epic battles with virtually no blood.
At the same time, while it is a kid?s movie, it?s great for adults to watch as well, (kind of like The Incredibles, or Harry Potter.)
But most importantly, this is going to be a big movie to see this year because as far as I?m concerned, it?s one of the best films that?s been made this year.
Without gushing about it, Narnia is one of the best fantasy movies I have ever seen.
The Lion, The Witch, and the Wardrobe, adapted from the children?s book by C.S. Lewis of the same name, which has been a classic for more than fifty years.
The story follows four children who find a gateway to a magical world in the back of a wardrobe at their uncle?s house.
They find themselves thrust into a world of centaurs and talking horses, prophecies and magic and massive battles between good and evil.
The story is so good that it was already adapted into a movie once by the BBC back in the ?80s, but it was a low budget affair, and never achieved much mainstream popularity.
This time around, on the other hand, it seems like no expense was spared ? and the production budget of $150 million seems to confirm that.
However, it wouldn?t be fair to say that the money was wasted. Andrew Adamson was recruited to direct it, fresh off his twin successes of Shrek, and Shrek 2.
And while not everyone liked Shrek, it did win an Academy Award for Best Animated Feature, and anyone who can win an Oscar on their first feature film is OK by me.
The other notable member of the production team was WETA, the visual effects firm who racked up four Oscars for their work on the three Lord of the Rings movies.
I can only imagine how daunting the task for Adamson was when the movie started pre-production. As the saying goes, ?never work with children or animals,? but all four lead characters are children, and most of the supporting cast is talking animals ? computer generated animals at that.
That being said, Adamson did a stellar job, and somehow found four of the best young actors I have ever seen to play the four children who are the main characters.
The one factor which could change Narnia from a universally loved masterpiece, into a more controversial territory is the Christian overtones which people will undoubtedly find.
In the novel, C.S. Lewis thinly veils the Christian allegory; Aslan the lion, who is the King of Narnia, is killed on a mountaintop to save someone else, and then resurrected at dawn the next day.
Even that, though, is downplayed. The same events take place in the movie, but they aren?t played up with the same emphasis on symbolism and morality.
All in all, The Chronicles of Narnia is a top notch film for anyone and everyone. It is a perfect adaptation, remaining faithful to the book while still making the most out of the medium of film. It is also a testament to Adamson?s skill as a director, how well the film was shot, and edited.
The final thing to say about this movie is that I think we can all be thankful for once about Hollywood?s tendency towards sequels. I cannot wait for the next installment of what will surely become the Narnia franchise; I just hope it?s every bit as good as the first one.
