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.
It was hip hop that proved to be the fitting undertone to his last flick, “Hustle and Flow,” but this time around, writer-director Craig Brewer infuses Southern blues into a borderline racist, misogynistic, and exploitive movie that is gritty, seductive, and truly original.
“Black Snake Moan” tells the story of nearly-naked nymphomaniac Rae (Christina Ricci). Her hard-partying-screwing-everything-in-sight ways have left her bruised and beaten on the side of the road. Enter Lazarus (Samuel L. Jackson); fully clothed in righteousness and candor, he finds the scantily clad girl lying in the road and carries her into his house. Lazarus, a god-fearing bluesman whose wife has just left him for his brother, decides to take on the responsibility of curing the drugged-out girl of her immoral “sickness” by literally chaining Rae to his radiator.
The absolute outrageousness of it all unexpectedly works on many levels.
Rae moans and wriggles without inhibition, portraying sexual addiction with lust and emotional emptiness, all the while, sporting little white underpants and cropped, midriff-baring tees. Her barely-there attire at times overshadows Ricci’s heartbreaking performance. Despite this, she gives her most memorable role to date (yes, even including her work as Wednesday from the Addams Family). Ricci is unplugged, mesmerizing, completely depraved and a force to be reckoned with.
The movie thrives in the sweaty heat of sensuality and southern hospitality. Take away the powerful music and the appropriate setting; it would be a far lesser film.
The soulful, dirty blues grind their way into your heart and head, making it nearly impossible to refrain from stomping your feet and nodding along to Jackson’s passionate performance. It is yet to be known if there is anything Jackson can’t do, but as Lazarus, he proves he can sing too. And as fans know, only Sam Jackson can make profanity poetic. His talent for unrelenting-bad-ass-cursing is not wasted in “Black Snake Moan” as his character loves God and blues as much as foul language and a certain 12-letter expletive. Jackson is the most righteous we’ve seen him since “Pulp Fiction.” He’s spitting fire and brimstone and quoting scriptures with utmost conviction.
Brewer succeeds in portraying smoldering decadence without fear. His honest and unmerciful approach has you cringing, blushing and laughing- either from shock or from simple release of tension.
In the movie’s weakest moments, it’s saved by truly electric performances – Justin Timberlake included, who proves he can hold his own among seasoned Hollywood veterans as Rae’s troubled boyfriend, Ronnie.
On the surface, this provocative picture’s content is all kinds of offensive. But Brewer presents a nymphomaniac with a heart of gold in a similarly serious style as “Hustle & Flow’s” pimp with big rap dreams; both characters that initially seem better made for punch lines.
This time, he proves it’s hard out here for a nympho.
3.5*/5*
