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.
Untraceable unfolds as a standard edge-of-seat psychological drama that most movie critics will probably pan for its by-the-book approach, its one-dimensional characters or its far-fetched premise based on a killer with a keyboard as his murder weapon.
But let’s be serious here. Can predictability really be punishable in the thriller movie genre? It’s the genre that has let Jodie Foster play the same character in almost every film she’s done in the past decade. It’s the genre that reigns box-office charts weekend after weekend with its prototypical grit and gore. It’s the genre that will continue to give us Saw flicks every Halloween until teens get tired of gruesome torture scenes (can’t see this happening in the foreseeable future). Viewers find comfort in their favourite thriller’s formulaic nature. The reassurance of knowing things will all work out in the end somehow makes a scene where a victim’s skin is burned off by sulfuric acid relatively acceptable. The thriller, like the romantic comedy, exists to give fans exactly what they were expecting.
Untraceable succeeds at delivering its thriller-esque plot conventionalities while also offering up a smart dosage of fascination and suspense. Add in some chilling social commentary aimed at the post-YouTube generation and you’ve got yourself an intelligently crafted piece of work.
Diane Lane plays Jennifer Marsh, an Internet crimes FBI agent entangled in a Web hunt for a computer geek turned lunatic. Sporting dark circles under her eyes and very little makeup, Lane channels her best Jodie with a remarkably unglamourous but strong performance that translates well on screen. She leads her team in a fight to take down the tech- savvy psycho who gets his sadistic kicks out of setting up a web site that streams each of his graphic murders live, with the fate of the tormented victims left in the hands of the public. The more hits the site gets from curious mouse-wielding accomplices, the faster the captives succumb to their fatality. Untraceable does raise some thought-provoking, conversation-stimulating questions about our voyeuristic, violence-hungry world. But the cynical implications are left underdeveloped and almost overshadowed by torture scenes that will leave you cringing, wincing or turning away—either from shock or from simple release of tension.
There are a few strong plot points hidden between the gratuitous violence- no matter how conventional. When the game of cat and mouse between Marsh and the murder predictable becomes personal, director Gregory Hoblit (“Primal Fear”,“Fracture”) shows off his seasoned chops and creates the perfect amount of apprehension and dread as the story tumbles on and the clock ticks down.
It may not be explicitly original or meticulously plotted, but it’s chilling and effective enough to satisfy thrill-seeking audiences.
And there is Colin Hanks. Yes, as in Tom’s son. The superstar offspring adds a certain spark to the flick as the resident comic relief and Marsh’s scene-stealing best buddy. Billy Burke (Fracture) gives a forgettable performance as the cop with a subtle crush on our widowed heroine. The romance is thankfully never fully explored and the focus is kept on Marsh and her team’s race to track down a virtually untraceable technical mastermind.
Untraceable hopes to poke, jab, and nudge at our deepest curiosities by posing the inevitable question: If a real-life cyber-killing copycat were to immortalize, would the public response be the same? Are people so perverse and addicted to the web that they would willingly become accessories to murder for an electronic fix of chills and thrills? Probably.
But beneath it’s moral message, Untraceable is just another end-of-January box-office filler, existing solely to give audiences a well-deserved break from Oscar hopefuls and Rambo remakes.
