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.
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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.
I can’t recall a film that brings together so many elite actors, which is precisely the description of “Bobby.” The cast is packed with Hollywood A-listers, both young (Lindsay Lohan, Nick Cannon) and older (Martin Sheen, Anthony Hopkins). What brought all of these actors together is likely the same thing that brought all of their characters in the movie together: respect for Robert Kennedy. They certainly didn’t do it for the screen time. Actors such as Hopkins, Demi Moore, Sharon Stone and Harry Belafonte can all carry movies by themselves, as they have proven so many times, but in this film, they all play second fiddle to the only true main character, Bobby Kennedy himself.
The movie mixes archival footage of Kennedy throughout the movie, but very seamlessly, making the actors and the attendees of the rally nearly indistinguishable. This is a very strong point in the film.
The characters are very different, and are from all backgrounds and walks of life, which emphasizes the breadth of Kennedy’s influence and draw. Like “Crash,” the story drifts between all these characters, to emphasize a greater theme than the stories in their own lives.
The thing that makes this movie dark is the eventual and inevitable shooting of the main character that everyone knows is coming. In that sense, it could be compared to “Titanic,” in the way that no matter how pleasant the story and characters are, the knowledge of impending doom and life-altering heartache is always in the back of one’s mind.
One very memorable character that stands out among the cast is the hippie drug-dealer, played by Ashton Kutcher. He is definitely there to portray the psychedelic aspect of “acid-dropping hippies” that was so much a part of 1968, but his fake wig and outlandish outfit make him a caricature of the movement, and unbelievable. Although his scenes provide some of the sparsely used (but well used for that matter) comic relief, I couldn’t stop thinking that he was going to tear off the wig and “Punk” some other characters. He is really the only character that seems a little out of place, but his role is still necessary and, at times, hysterical.
The film encompasses the variety of issues that were present at the time (civil rights, women’s rights, Vietnam). In showing these issues through the characters, Emilio Estevez (the film’s writer and director, essentially the film’s father) is able to show the other uniting theme between everyone in the film– hope. Each character has hope in some incarnation, and his portrayal of this idea is one of the strongest points in the movie. Hope for the future, hope for his place in society, hope for good government, hope for a successful career, hope in a new era. And that’s really what Bobby Kennedy embodied. After the assassinations of his brother and Martin Luther King Jr., he was the last chance for an ideal that was quickly being overshadowed by a failing war and a lack of a bright future. For many reasons, that is what makes this film so timely– the parallels between that time and what is going on now in American politics. In both instances, the American society is sick of a falsely motivated war that is not being successfully won, and on the brink of an election, is looking for hope in new candidates.
The fact that the story is based around a true event makes it that much more effective. This movie will probably bring you to tears if you were around and can remember June, 1968, and might even do so if you are too young to remember.
Great acting, great writing, great directing: great film.
4*/5*
