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.
This week was supposed to be about documentaries. I?m a bit of a documentary buff, and recently they?ve made a huge break into the mainstream.
A brilliant doc called March of the Penguins was released over the weekend, notably narrated by Morgan Freeman. It is beautifully put together, and it tells a fascinating story with emotion and comedy, and I urge everyone to check it out.
That was what this week was supposed to be about.
Unfortunately, War of the Worlds came out this week, and for a wide variety of reasons, this is a movie that needs to be dealt with.
Documentaries can wait.
War of the Worlds tells the story of Ray Ferrier and his two children who find themselves as refugees from an army of giant alien tripods, which are laying waste to the world.
Directed by Steven Spielberg and starring Tom Cruise as Ferrier, War of the Worlds came as a big surprise for me.
I was first surprised because I thought that even in Hollywood some things were sacred, and H.G. Wells would never get remade or adapted.
As it is, only a team like Spielberg, Cruise, and Dakota Fanning, the darling child actress of Hollywood these days, could pull something like this off.
With a lot of press being given to an 18-week box office slump, and increasing trends towards people renting DVDs instead of going to the theatre, I was also surprised that the industry was hanging all of it?s hopes on this movie to break the loosing streak.
But most of all, I was surprised that it was any good.
Don?t get me wrong, it was far from great, but I was expecting a big disaster movie with plenty of special effects and not much else.
That being said, there is a lot to like about War of the Worlds.
All of the reasons that Spielberg is held in awe as a storyteller and as a legendary director are evident in this latest work.
Cruise takes on the character of a negligent divorcee with two insolent children who turns hero in the face of disaster. He plays this role with unexpected depth and complexity.
At the same time, the movie doesn?t skimp on the special effects, and the end result is an impressive disaster movie on the scale of Armageddon or The Day After Tomorrow.
However, with a lot to like about the movie, there?s also a lot to hate.
Tim Robbins puts in an appearance, but it?s lackluster and disappointing.
The script isn?t of the highest grade, and it?s only Spielberg?s expert directing that saves the movie from dragging.
The thing that bothered me the most though, was the perpetual 9/11 imagery that Spielberg can?t seem to get away from.
Cruise gets covered in white dust at one point, there are walls of Polaroid pictures of missing persons, and when things start blowing up, Fanning screams, ?Is it the terrorists??
I think we can look forward to more and of these glorifications of 9/11 in the next few years, both with outright dramatizations of the disaster, as well as imagery and allusion in other disaster movies.
All in all, I don?t think War of the Worlds will be enough to break the slump.
This time last year, Spiderman 2 had just demolished previous box office records with an opening weekend of $180 million. I just don?t think War of the Worlds will be able to match that.
Furthermore, the movie industry is cutthroat right now. Between Netflix, Video on Demand, and Blockbuster eliminating late fees, theatres can barely compete.
Famous Players unilaterally dropped their prices to $9.95 the day after Blockbuster abolished late fees, and while they vigorously deny any connection, it seems as though the movie theatres are running scared.
Personally, my bet to pull things up is Charlie and the Chocolate Factory starring Johnny Depp, which is coming out on July 15.
If you do feel the need to see something great in the next couple of weeks, Murderball, a documentary on wheelchair rugby at the Athens Olympics goes into limited release on July 8.
It made a huge splash at the Hot Docs festival in Toronto, and if you can find a theatre showing it, this is one you?ve got to see.
