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.
Stories should have a reason for existing. They should teach us something, or show us something new about the world, or take us places we haven’t been before, or explore an issue that is (or should be) relevant, or take us through an incident in a person’s life that’s worth experiencing. Jumper’s screenplay is credited to David S. Goyer, who knows how to write stories, and directed by Doug Liman, who knows how to tell them, but like the upcoming 10,000 B.C., it isn’t actually about anything interesting.
At heart, I suppose, Jumper depicts the moment in a young person’s life when he finally lands the girl of his dreams. Except we meet them in high school, when it’s obvious even then that she would go out with him in a second if he bothered to ask.
The young man is named David, and the young woman is named Millie, and he’s played by Max Theriot as a socially awkward 15-year-old and Hayden Christensen as an adult, while she’s played by Bridge to Terabithia’s AnnaSophia Robb as a kid and Rachel Bilson as an adult. As a kid, it’s hard not to sympathize with David; he’s terrorized by Mark, Millie’s lunkhead boyfriend, has difficulty offering Millie a gift (a snowglobe with the Eiffel tower, since Millie wants to travel – foreshadowing, anyone?), and falls into an icy river when Mark throws said gift onto the ice. He survives by “jumping” into the school library. After discovering that by thinking about it, he can go anywhere he wants, he does what any sane 15-year-old with an alcoholic father (who can somehow afford a very nice house) and a mother who abandoned him does: he takes a bus to New York.
As an adult, David uses his “gift” to travel around the world, earns his money by robbing banks, and hasn’t contacted anyone from his hometown in eight years. He never told Millie he survived the dive into the river (though he left her gift in her backyard) and only comes back when he’s attacked by Roland (Samuel L. Jackson), a member of a group of “Paladins,” who are sworn to hunt jumpers.
And here’s where the questions begin: what are jumpers? Why do they exist? Why are the Paladins hunting them? (The movie offers something about only God having the right to that power, but who are they fooling? Most religious nuts would love it.) Why, when he meets her again, does David not tell Millie what happened?
I get sick of action heroes who are terse simply because the plot requires them to be. David doesn’t tell Millie anything only because if he did, our precarious reason for watching would vanish. The only result of him not telling her anything is she gets into more danger. Does he think his silence will protect her somehow? It’s already been shown that anyone he’s touching jumps with him. Does he think she won’t trust him? They’re sleeping together within a week of meeting each other again.
I also don’t get David’s friend, Griffin (Jamie Bell), who’s introduced well and proves to be an entertaining sidekick, but his role in the story is murky.
This is an expensive-looking film. The IMDB informs me that it was filmed over a period of six months, and the Colosseum scenes at least were filmed on location, so I’m guessing the London, Tokyo, Rome, New York, grand canyon and pyramid scenes were as well (though it’s unlikely Hayden Christensen actually sat on a lawn chair on top of the sphinx’s head). But all I could think was either 1) Wow, I wonder if that was filmed on location? 2) Why are they playing into this cliche? or 3) What a waste. All that money… for nothing.
According to the IMDB, Goyer’s screenplay wasn’t used – and was closer to the source novel. Go figure.
The audience that flocked to see Transformers, X3, and the second two Pirates of the Caribbean movies will probably love Jumper, and I suppose it’s a decent enough rental. Had I paid to see it however, I would have demanded my money back.
