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.
In my opinion, there is no phrase more useless in movie advertising than “if you see only one movie this year.” It’s not used as often as it used to be (I believe we have Jerry Seinfeld to thank for this), but whenever it crops up it still bugs me. First off, as Seinfeld said, how can you possibly enjoy a movie if you know it’s the only one you’re going to see? And who’s to say that when you want to see a movie you won’t be in the mood for, say, Live Free or Die Hard over Sunshine? Or The Bourne Ultimatum over Rescue Dawn? And how do you choose between movies like Hairspray and Ratatouille?
Secondly, if you’re only going to see one movie this year, make it a documentary.
Most movies (especially wide releases) are meant to entertain. That is their goal. And it’s a noble goal, but part of the reason we’re on this planet is to learn about and question our surroundings, not merely become inundated by and laugh at them. A good documentary is interesting, but it will also open your eyes, train them on an issue you haven’t seen before, and explore it in-depth, leaving you with something a little more substantial to talk about on the way home.
God Grew Tired of Us is one such documentary. It focuses on a subject that will be new for many people – the Lost Boys of Sudan, who were displaced by the second civil war that took place in southern Sudan from 1983 to 2005 (the first took place from 1955 to 1972). In many ways, the Lost Boys were lucky. They had to walk a thousand miles through African wilderness, facing attacks by lions and hyenas, avoiding bombing raids by the Sudanese government, and ultimately spent a decade in Kenyan war camps – but they survived. Over its 20-year period, the second Sudanese civil war killed almost two million civilians and displaced more than four million others.
The Lost Boys are unrelated to the Darfur conflict, which has taken place in Sudan’s western region with the Sudanese military and the Arab militia known as the Janjaweed on one side, and rebel Muslim groups on the other, and which has resulted in 400,000 dead and two and a half million displaced civilians.
Like all great documentaries, God Grew Tired of Us is not simply a history lesson. There is history, and stark images of wandering and starving Africans, but there is celebration too. There is music, and tribal dancing, and even a boom box. Time moves forward, as it must, and when many of the lost boys are offered a reprieve – passage to the U.S. – God Grew Tired of Us becomes a portrait of three remarkable individuals: John Bul Dau, Panther Bior, and Daniel Pach.
Bior and Pach are first noticed as the ringleaders of what the boys call “parliament” – they gather the boys in their camp under a tree and, especially during periods when there is no food, entertain one another. Dau, director Christoper Quinn told me, approached the filmmakers when he discovered he was going to America.
“John came up to us and because we were American, said, ‘y’know, I’ve just found my name on the board, and I’m happy that I’m going to the United States, but my concern is what’s going to happen to all of my, he said, fellow brothers, that I’ve been travelling with for the last fifteen years. What’s gonna happen to them?”
Indeed, once coming to America, the boys take plenty of steps to ensure their relatives are safe back home.
While adjusting, it’s worth noting that the boys start complaining about the same problems as the rest of us: lack of money (Dau takes on two part-time jobs), too much time spent commuting, and not enough time left for friends and family. Ultimately however, the film is very hopeful, a testament both to the power of individuals and its community, despite roadblocks in war-torn Africa and cracks in the so-called American Dream.
The film is narrated by its subjects whenever possible and by Nicole Kidman whenever not. It runs a scant 86 minutes.
I’m not assigning a star rating because it trivializes what the filmmakers set out to accomplish. Simply put, God Grew Tired of Us deserves to be seen.
God Grew Tired of Us is out on DVD Tuesday, August 14
