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.
On any given night, whatever’s on television is better than what’s at the multiplex. I know it, viewers know it, distributors pretend not to know it. 30 Rock and The Office are funnier than anything not produced by Judd Apatow, 24 packs more action (and a better plot) than any non-Asian film which doesn’t star Clive Owen or Jason Statham, Heroes and Lost are as exciting as the best installments of X-Men and Spider-Man and The X-Files (which I’ve been re-watching on DVD recently) remains creepier than any American horror film to hit screens in the last nine years.
Which is why, when writing a film review for andPOP, in addition to gauging how successful a movie is at accomplishing whatever it sets out to do and considering which details to share with readers so they know whether or not they’d enjoy it, I keep in mind whether I’d pay good money to see it. In the case of 88 Minutes, the answer is a definite no. It’s a decent movie, but like many police procedurals it’s not as good as an equivalent episode of Law and Order, CSI, or Without A Trace – an observation that has always baffled me, since television’s primary advantage over film is deeper characters, and none of these shows are character-driven to begin with.
The setup is simple: in 1997 (a time period established by the Backstreet Boys on the soundtrack) forensic psychiatrist Dr. Jack Gramm (Al Pacino) offers a testimony that puts accused rapist/murderer John Forster (Neil McDonough) on death row. Nine years later (the movie takes place in 2006, when it was originally supposed to be released) Forster is twelve hours away from execution when a similar murder happens and Dr. Gramm receives a phone call (complete with the sardonic “tick tock” Forster whispered before being led away) informing him he has 88 minutes left to live.
No, the film does not take place in real time, though I believe it tries. The talented cast is hobbled by tacky cinematography (which I’ll get to in a moment) and a heavy-handed screenplay filled with unnecessary flashbacks, characters who announce their past deeds and relationships to each other without a moment’s thought, and plot holes you could drive a truck (or at least a minivan) through.
I’m probably reading too much into it, but there’s a misogyny to 88 Minutes that I didn’t like. Granted, the supporting cast is primarily women, but they’re either victims, bitches, or a lesbian (and in retrospect there’s five male and six female supporting characters, plus two victims and Pacino, so this is really just an illustration of how used we are to seeing men dominate the screen). The female lead is named Kim Cummings – I’d love to hear screenwriter Gary Scott Thompson explain that.
Then there are the murders. Not only is the murderer’s method – hoisting his victims by one leg so they hang upside-down with their legs splayed open – vile, but so is the movie’s approach to photographing them. The cinematography always focuses on the victim’s pose (which early on is duplicated by a live woman, naked) then their midriffs as the murderer cuts them, then their upper bodies. Then again, this is a procedural, many viewers enjoy such lurid details, and rapist/murderers exist in real life, so make of that what you will.
As Roger Ebert once observed, there’s a fascination to watching Al Pacino play law enforcement agents or criminal types, since he (the same can be said of Robert De Niro) has been doing such roles for over 30 years now. Real cops and criminals have grown up on Pacino’s mannerisms, and it’s difficult to believe he couldn’t tackle an actual case. As a professor and forensic psychiatrist, Pacino once again appears to be a professional playing himself. Like so much of his recent work, however, the supporting material lets him down.
