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.
Marina and The Diamonds are working on some new music, but Marina is being very secretive about it. Although the release has been delayed, she let’s us in on some secrets about the new album, and how alcohol changed her life.
Franchise Games We’d Like to See – Firefly
I’ll be 100% honest with you. I’m totally watching Firefly right now, as I write this article. Such a rich universe, interesting characters and amazing balance between action and comedy, the short-lived cult hit TV series Firefly and it’s cinematic companion Serenity completely blew me away when I first encountered them. It never occurred to me whether or not they would make a good video game until just now, as I sat down to write my latest blog. In that spirit, here is the first in (hopefully) a series of articles I like to call “Franchise Games We’d Like to See”.
**disclaimer – I realize that one of these articles may be posted after an announcement of an actual game coming out in the future. In that case, I don’t care. (more…)
On Friday night, my girlfriend and her friend dragged me out to see Serenity; the movie version of Firefly, a short lived sci-fi TV show that aired for part of a season back in 2002.
Written and Directed by Joss Whedon, Serenity is a sort of cowboys in outer space action movie, except with zombies.
It follows the dysfunctional crew of outlaws who cruise through space smuggling and stealing ever since they found themselves on the losing side of a civil war with the authoritarian Alliance.
Serenity is the name of the ship they cruise around in, a sort of Millennium Falcon for the new generation that?s always threatening to either explode or fall out of the sky.
Needless to say, I had reservations.
It?s been a few years since I saw Star Trek: Nemesis, and after that debacle, I would be happy if I never saw another sci-fi TV show turned movie again.
Moreover, since TV show was prematurely cancelled, and diehard fans and DVD sales had brought it back from the brink, I wasn?t looking forward to braving the fanatics on opening night.
I?ve heard unconfirmed reports of diehards buying multiple copies of the DVD set either for themselves or as gifts for friends, hoping to inflate overall sales.
As it turns out, my girlfriend was one such fan, although, I assure you, much unbeknownst to me when we started dating.
Before seeing the movie, she sat me down and had me watch a few episodes, and I?ll admit, the show had promise; it really is a shame it was cancelled, but c?est la vie.
For anyone who doesn?t know Whedon (who wrote and directed the original TV series) was also the creative mind behind Buffy the Vampire Slayer, and Angel.
And say what you will about those two shows, the episodes that Whedon actually wrote (as opposed to the ones he farmed out to other writers) are also pretty good.
As it turns out, Serenity is better than decent.
It has several major problems; Serenity?s plot runs a bit thin in parts, for example.
However, Whedon?s genius is not for his plotlines.
In Firefly, for example, he creates different dialects for each of his characters, depending on their lineage, vocation, and which planet they were born on.
Mal, the captain of Serenity, speaks in a fusion of bluegrass twang, and mandarin.
Another character, Simon Tam, who grew up on a more sophisticated planet, speaks with perfect grammar and diction.
In both cases, the character creation is complete. Everything they do, everything they say, and even the way they carry themselves is coloured by their character.
Unlike in so many other movies, I never found myself saying, ?That doesn?t fit with his character,? for anyone.
At the same time, Whedon has a penchant for one-liners, and while I usually resent the cheapness and superficiality of one-liners, he makes them work.
For that reason, the dialogue is always worth listening to, and you sometimes find yourself questioning whether it?s really a sci-fi movie you?re watching, as opposed to a comedy.
Hardcore fans will probably quibble over technical details, and complain about the necessary exposition that makes the film accessible to regular moviegoers ? this much I know, because my girlfriend was making such comments as we walked out of the theatre.
However, I think in the end this will satisfy both mainstream audiences and diehard fans alike.
Moreover, the movie takes things up a notch from the TV show.
Without spoiling anything, not everyone makes it out alive, including some of the people who lived through the whole TV show.
If for nothing else, check it out for the space-zombies.
Never heard of that one before? Yeah, they?re space-zombies and they?re pretty crazy.
I think they call them Reavers, but they?ll always be space-zombies to me.
