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.
What could be safer than having a cop as your next door neighbor? Besides your typical alarm system, you now have a little special attention. Sort of like the all seeing eye.
But what if this cop suddenly shows his true identity? And he’s no care bear. What if the guy who walks around the neighborhood with a hand gun 24/7, sports high security flood lights around the perimeter of his house and is an LAPD law enforcer who puts the criminals behind bars….suddenly becomes the bad guy? Oh yea, and he wants to make you’re life miserable.
All of a sudden, that safe feeling becomes paranoia and fear. Forget Democracy and civil rights, this is now a dictatorship. Big brother watching over you has now turned to spying. Who do you turn to? He is the law. Sort of like Mr. Roger’s neighborhood gone bad, eh? Now put Samuel L. Jackson’s mug on this guy, and how long will it take for you to break?
Set in the Los Angeles’s San Ferando Valley, the place where Rodney King was assaulted by Police in 1991, Neil LaBute’s Lakeview Terrace revolves around a retired cop and single father of two, named Abel Turner (Samuel L. Jackson), who immediately wages a psychological and eventually physical torment on a young interracial couple, Chris Mattson (Patrick Wilson) and Lisa Mattson (Kerry Washington) who move in next door.
Civilian prejudices seem to be a main theme in the story line, as LaBute attempts to carefully display the L.A. area’s racial confrontations, and how some racial disputes are inevitable, no matter where you live. In Abel’s case, he is a racial separatist, yet beneath all the beliefs, remains a clear cut tragic experience to pin it all on.
After seeing that Chris is in fact the white husband of a black woman, Abel’s first meeting with the WASP, is anything but inviting. Chris, who comes into the driveway, discreetly smoking a cigarette behind his wife’s back and blaring rap music, is taken by surprise with Abel’s sudden knocking on the car window with the typical police mag light. “You can listen to that noise all night long, but when you wake up in the morning, you’ll still be white” says the cop, before chuckling and walking away.
That’s just one of many “friendly” encounters that the couple is exposed to in the new neighborhood, as they experience a slew of mysterious and paranoid occurrences, including slashed tires, air conditioning system wires being cut, as well as officer Turner’s security lights constantly illuminating the couple’s bedroom like the fourth of July. Not only is he (Abel) an irritating neighbor, but also quite the intimidating fellow, as all attempts by Chris to ask the police officer to stop the “mind games”, are instantly shut down with the officer’s stone cold answer of “…or what”.
But with him being a law enforcer and all, the Mattmans have nowhere to turn. And with Abel’s continued shrewd attempts to bully the couple into moving away, you can only just sit tight, and watch as the he begins to cross the line of annoying next door neighbor, to sinister psycho-cop who puts his own ideals above the law.
The film’s dialogue presents the audience with the typical suspense package (Kudos to screenplay writers David Loughery and Howard Korder), but Jackson, now pushing 60 years old, provides the flesh for the skeleton. Viewers remain snug in their seats, as they watch the tension thermostat continue to rise, with his bone-chilling performance.
However, the movie’s major flaw is that it doesn’t really take a hint when to quit. It brings in unnecessary details about Abel’s past as well as sub-plots about a suburban wild fire which continues to drift the film further and further away from the main plot. Eventually, it twists the main premise of the film into a downward spiral, until all the thrilling hostility is suddenly deflated.
Nonetheless, viewers expecting a “sitting-on-the-edge-of-your-seat” experience, will get their fair dose of thrills and chills. With Jackson taking the reins, it makes you wanna think, oh, i don’t know, at least two, three, five, maybe twelve times about having a lunatic “dirty” cop as your next door neighbor.
