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.
Do not — I repeat, DO NOT — wait to see 300 on DVD. In fact, don’t even settle for seeing it on anything smaller than an IMAX screen if possible. This film demands the biggest, loudest, most cinematically-enveloping environment to be fully enjoyed. And enjoy it you will; 300 has received more pre-release hype and praise than any film since Borat, and it deserves every ounce.
The film (adapted from Frank Miller’s graphic novel of the same name) recounts the Battle of Thermopylae. The fight pitted a small force of Spartan Greeks (300, as the legend has it) against a massive Persian army, ruled by the larger-than-life pseudo-God, Xerxes. The seemingly fearless Spartans, led by King Leonidis (played by Gerard Butler), use their superior fighting skills to put up much more of a fight than the Persians were expecting. And while the battle didn’t win the Greco-Persian Wars for the Greeks, it bought them enough time to amass the naval force that would eventually lead to Xerxes’ downfall.
You should not, however, go to this film expecting — or wanting — a history lesson. In its place, though, you’ll get non-stop eye-candy in a vein similar to that of V for Vendetta or Frank Miller’s Sin City. 300 is essentially like the best battle scenes from The Lord of the Rings movies, just ramped up on bloodthirsty adrenaline and drawn out across nearly two hours of screen time. Balancing this admittedly violent content is an ongoing subplot that focuses on Leonidis’ wife, Queen Gorgo (a position played flawlessly by Lena Headey), and the stuggles she faces in Sparta while her husband is away fighting. It’s not nearly enough of a focus to take away from the action, but it does provide occsionally-needed solace for your nerves.
300‘s visual style is truly nothing short of groundbreaking, with a richness of colour and contrast that makes it difficult to believe the film wasn’t shot in some alternate universe with much more dramatic lighting than ours. In fact, the film’s visuals come with a notable Canadian connection; though the vast majority of scenes were shot in front of a green screen, filming took place almost entirely in Montreal. And while there are some historial inaccuracies in 300, no one was chowing down poutine on-screen. Shame, really.
There are issues, though, including some fairly unsettling racialized imagery and stereotyping with the Persians, the seeming inability to cover Butler’s Scottish accent, and the use of contemporary music occasionally verging on overkill (as in Sofia Coppola’s “Marie Antoinette”).
But because 300 is not a film that aims to provoke much thought — nor one that requires much mental aptitide to enjoy — these flaws do litle to detract from the overall effect. Instead, 300 takes the best of action movies, combines it with a little history, and offers a movie that’s simply amazing to watch.
Rating: 4.5*/5*
