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.
This ain’t your momma’s soccer game
What with the success of Mario Tennis and Mario Superstar Baseball it was rather commonsensical for Nintendo to try their luck with soccer. I believe these games serve as proof that not everybody out there demands the hardcore realistic titles that we see so often as the norm with sports games like the FIFAs and the Maddens from EA. In fact, when it comes to Gamecube, for some reason sports games just aren?t its selling point ? even though I?d argue that of the three systems, Gamecube?s controller is the most comfortable and thus, ideal for sports games as they are typically intense and demand accuracy and precision.
Nevertheless Nintendo has been releasing these mascot-based sports games – such as the one I?ll be ranting about this week, Super Mario Strikers – and when it comes down to it, they?re great. I think the reason is because Nintendo is sticking to a very basic formula when it comes to these games: beautifully coloured and rendered characters, extremely simple and fluid controls, and power-ups and specials such as red shells, bombs and chain-chomps just mix things up.
As aforementioned, the controls are incredibly easy to get a hang of ? perhaps rather facile. I popped the disc in, started up an exhibition game and after experimenting with a couple of buttons and combinations I was whooping my opponent. I went through a few of the tutorials afterwards just to make sure I didn?t miss anything but for the most part I found I nailed the fundamentals e.g. passing, shooting and even charging up shots in quick time.
If you?ve played Mario Tennis, Mario Superstar Baseball or Mario-whatever, then you can expect to see the same roster of characters such as Mario, Donkey Kong, Yoshi and even the ever-popular, and especially ingenious creation – Waluigi. These guys serve as captains and you have to either choose Toads, Koopas, Hammer Brothers or Birdos to make up all of your teammates. I personally liked to use Yoshi with a team of Toads as this combination guaranteed swiftness.
In case you were wondering, there are no such things as red or yellow cards, throw-ins and corner-kicks. Even though the stadiums seem to be oft times outdoors, all the fields are fenced so that they operate like indoor ones, thus, the ball never leaves the field. Obviously, in a game in which you can toss shells and exploding devices at enemies to even or uneven the odds, there is no referee. But strikers has its own kind of penalty system so that players are deterred from tripping too much. Basically, should you trip an opponent who doesn?t have the ball, the opposing team will gain a special upgrade, e.g. three green shells will become three red shells, which can even be upgraded to three spiky shells.
The one downer of this game is the one-player mode is too easy. I assure you, you?ll fly through the tournaments in a day. But because it?s so easy to get the hang of, it makes for a fantastic multiplayer, in fact, you?ll be cursing and throwing fists with people in no time.
I?d say that Super Mario Strikers is worth checking out even if you don?t plan on playing against friends, it makes for a good rental. If you do manage to get four people together to duke it out on a regular basis I?d strongly recommend adding this to your collection as it is will make for engaging matches.
