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Radha Mitchell – In Every Dreamkatcher a Nightmare

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Apr 28, 2020
12 min

Radha Mitchell – In Every Dreamkatcher a Nightmare

Radha Mitchell In Every Dreamkatcher a Nightmare By Jay S. Jacobs There is a whole world out there which we barely remember and hardly understand. Dreams and nightmares are a place where our imagination goes wild, where normal logic or real-world conventions hold no sway. It is a world that fascinates actress Radha Mitchell – who was born in Australia but has been based out of the US since the mid-1980s. She has put together a diverse and impressive body of work, from arty fi

Joel Edgerton – Rewriting Boy Erased

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Nov 15, 2018
10 min

Joel Edgerton – Rewriting Boy Erased

Joel Edgerton at the screening of “Boy Erased” at the Philadelphia Film Festival. Joel Edgerton Rewriting Boy Erased By Jay S. Jacobs This seems to be a fertile time for actors to take a more hands-on approach to filmmaking and write and direct their own films. Take Joel Edgerton. The Australian-born actor has been slowly-but-surely building a big name in the States with roles in such films as Star Wars: Episode II – Attack of the Clones, Warrior, Zero Dark Thirty, The Great

Troye Sivan & Kim Petras – Tower Theater – Upper Darby, PA – October 6, 2018 (A PopEntertainment

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Oct 9, 2018
2 min

Troye Sivan & Kim Petras – Tower Theater – Upper Darby, PA – October 6, 2018 (A PopEntertainment

Troye Sivan – Tower Theater – Upper Darby, PA – October 6, 2018 – Photo by Maria Gilles © 2018 Troye Sivan & Kim Petras – Tower Theater – Upper Darby, PA – October 6, 2018 This past weekend, Australian singer Troye Sivan brought his “Bloom Tour” to the Tower Theater in Upper Darby. The show didn’t sell out, but the audience was super loud and excited to see Troye and his opening acts, Leland and Kim Petras. Leland opened the show as concert goers were entering the building af

5 Seconds of Summer – TLA – Philadelphia, PA – April 9, 2018 (A PopEntertainment.com Concert Review)

PopEntertainment

Apr 11, 2018
3 min

5 Seconds of Summer – TLA – Philadelphia, PA – April 9, 2018 (A PopEntertainment.com Concert Review)

5 Seconds of Summer – TLA – Philadelphia, PA – April 9, 2018 – Photo by Rachel Disipio © 2018 5 Seconds of Summer – TLA – Philadelphia, PA – April 9, 2018 The world first saw 5 Seconds of Summer back in 2013, when they hit the road with One Direction on their Take Me Home Tour. Since then, the band has released two studio albums and headlined multiple tours, playing sold out venues all over the world. The band took a bit of a break to work on their third studio album followin

The Bee Gees – One for All Tour: Live in Australia 1989 (A PopEntertainment.com Music Video Re

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Feb 1, 2018
5 min

The Bee Gees – One for All Tour: Live in Australia 1989 (A PopEntertainment.com Music Video Re

The Bee Gees – One for All Tour: Live in Australia 1989 THE BEE GEES – ONE FOR ALL TOUR: LIVE IN AUSTRALIA 1989 (2018) Featuring Barry Gibb, Maurice Gibb, Robin Gibb, George Perry, Alan Kendall, Michael Murphy, Tampa Murphy, Linda Harmon, Phyllis St. James, Tim Cansfield, Vic Martin and Gary Moberley. Directed by Adrian Woods. Distributed by Eagle Rock Entertainment. 107 minutes. Not Rated. The Bee Gees were in kind of a weird place in 1989. About a quarter of a century into

Lion (A PopEntertainment.com Movie Review)

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Apr 10, 2017
3 min

Lion (A PopEntertainment.com Movie Review)

Lion LION (2016) Starring Dev Patel, Rooney Mara, Nicole Kidman, Sunny Pawar, Abhishek Bharate, David Wenham, Nawazuddin Siddiqui, Divian Ladwa, Priyanka Bose, Deepti Naval, Tannishtha Chatterjee, Pallavi Sharda and Eamon Farren. Screenplay by Luke Davies. Directed by Garth Davis. Distributed by The Weinstein Company. 121 minutes. Rated PG-13. A few months ago, when I asked Oscar-nominated screenwriter Luke Davies what it was about the true-life story of Saroo Brierly which

The Daughter (A PopEntertainment.com Movie Review)

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Jan 29, 2017
3 min

The Daughter (A PopEntertainment.com Movie Review)

The Daughter THE DAUGHTER (2017) Starring Geoffrey Rush, Sam Neill, Ewen Leslie, Paul Schneider, Anna Torv, Miranda Otto, Odessa Young, Nicholas Hope, Richard Sutherland, Robert Menzies, Eden Falk, Gareth Davies, Wilson Moore, Ivy Mak, Kate Box, Nicola Frew, Sara West, Jessie Cacchillo, David Peterson, Steve Rodgers, Jackie Spicer, Ann Furlan, Danielle Blakey and Shelia Kumar. Screenplay by Simon Stone. Directed by Simon Stone. Distributed by Kino Lorber. 94 minutes. Not Ra

Jaume Collet-Serra – A Director Takes a Dip in The Shallows

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Jun 24, 2016
9 min

Jaume Collet-Serra – A Director Takes a Dip in The Shallows

Jaume Collet-Serra Jaume Collet-Serra A Director Takes a Dip in The Shallows by Brad Balfour Sharks are never far from the news – whether it’s a rare catch off the coast of New York City, or attacking swimmers en masse off the surfers’ shores of Australia. But in The Shallows, young-though-experienced surfer Nancy Adams (played by a leggy and tanned Blake Lively), is unexpectedly gnashed and seriously injured by a marauding Great White shark off the shore a beautiful but isol

Jacob Whitesides – Lovesick and There Ain’t No Cure

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Jun 7, 2016
8 min

Jacob Whitesides – Lovesick and There Ain’t No Cure

Jacob Whitesides – Coda – Philadelphia, PA – May 20, 2016 – Photo by Ruth Bekele © 2016 Jacob Whitesides Lovesick and There Ain’t No Cure By Maggie Mitchell How many people can you say that they started their own record company? Well, add Jacob Whitesides to that exclusive list. Whitesides has been climbing the mountain of fame, and hasn’t stopped since we met him. Yet, he’s still the 18-year-old from Tennessee that Pop Entertainment has grown to love. With his new tour White

Sullivan Stapleton – Seeing Past His Blindspot

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Oct 1, 2015
8 min

Sullivan Stapleton – Seeing Past His Blindspot

Sullivan Stapleton stars in BLINDSPOT. Sullivan Stapleton Seeing Past His Blindspot by Jay S. Jacobs NBC’s buzzworthy new action series Blindspot has one hell of a jumping off point. One night a large duffle bag mysteriously appears in the middle of New York’s Times Square, with a note on it to contact the FBI. The busiest area in the US is completely evacuated as the bomb squad comes in to see what is in the bag. As they are about to potentially explode the duffle, it starts

Kill Me Three Times (A PopEntertainment.com Movie Review)

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Apr 9, 2015
3 min

Kill Me Three Times (A PopEntertainment.com Movie Review)

Kill Me Three Times KILL ME THREE TIMES (2015) Starring Simon Pegg, Sullivan Stapleton, Alice Braga, Teresa Palmer, Callan Mulvey, Luke Hemsworth, Bryan Brown and Steve Le Marquand. Screenplay by James McFarland. Directed by Kriv Stenders. Distributed by Magnolia Pictures. 90 minutes. Rated R. It seemed like finally, two decades hence, we’d made it past the Quentin Tarantino-wannabe films. You know, those blood-stained movies populated by cheerfully amoral, cold-hearted, d

Look at Katja Glieson – Exclusive Music Video Premiere!

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Mar 10, 2015
1 min

Look at Katja Glieson – Exclusive Music Video Premiere!

Katja Glieson Look at Katja Glieson by Deborah Wagner Today is a big day for Katja Glieson! The eighteen year old Australian recording artist and dancer is releasing the music video for her new song “Look At Us.” This new video produced by well-known producers “Trend Def” features Ongina, who rose to fame on RuPaul’s Drag Race, and we are featuring the video right here at PopEntertainment.com! You might remember Glieson as the battle rhyming Elsa in the viral video “Snow Wh

Cody Simpson – Our New Mate Goes Acoustic

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Feb 2, 2014
4 min

Cody Simpson – Our New Mate Goes Acoustic

Cody Simpson – The Prince Music Theater – Philadelphia, PA – January 19, 2014 – photo by Sami Speiss © 2014 Cody Simpson Our New Mate Goes Acoustic by Ali Speiss and Sami Speiss The United States has a new Australian mate, Cody Simpson. This beach blond, blue-eyed heartthrob is a singer, instrumentalist and songwriter who is spreading his sunny, positive tunes to kids and adults alike. Simpson's Gold Coast roots show through his catchy tunes with his beachy, groovy style. Sim

Saving Mr. Banks (A PopEntertainment.com Movie Review)

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Jan 4, 2014
3 min

Saving Mr. Banks (A PopEntertainment.com Movie Review)

Saving Mr. Banks SAVING MR. BANKS (2013) Starring Emma Thompson, Tom Hanks, Colin Farrell, Annie Rose Buckley, Ruth Wilson, Paul Giamatti, Bradley Whitford, BJ Novak, Jason Schwartzman, Lily Bigham, Kathy Baker, Melanie Paxton, Andy McPhee and Rachel Griffiths. Screenplay by Kelly Marcel and Sue Smith. Directed by John Lee Hancock. Distributed by Walt Disney Picture. 125 minutes. Rated PG-13. It's not often when a studio creates a drama about the making of one of their classi

Bee Gees – In Our Own Time (A PopEntertainment.com Music Video Review)

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Dec 11, 2010
4 min

Bee Gees – In Our Own Time (A PopEntertainment.com Music Video Review)

Bee Gees – In Our Own Time BEE GEES – IN OUR OWN TIME (2010) Featuring Barry Gibb, Robin Gibb, Maurice Gibb (archival footage) & Andy Gibb (archival footage). Directed by Skot Bright. Distributed by Eagle Rock Entertainment. 116 minutes. Not Rated. Over thirty years on from their blindingly bright supernova of stardom, in which the Bee Gees rivaled the Beatles for all-time chart supremacy (in the summer of ’78, it was a regular occurrence for the top five singles on the Bil

John Denver – Around the World Live (A PopEntertainment.com Music Video Review)

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Dec 16, 2009
4 min

John Denver – Around the World Live (A PopEntertainment.com Music Video Review)

John Denver – Around the World Live JOHN DENVER – AROUND THE WORLD LIVE (2009) Featuring John Denver. Directed by Barry Ehrmann. Distributed by Eagle Rock Entertainment. 592 minutes. Not Rated. In the twelve years since his untimely death in a plane crash – and a good 30 years on from his popular heyday – it has become all too easy to forget how huge a star John Denver was in the 1970s. Around the World Live not only reminds us of Denver’s amazing popularity, but also of w

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