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.
Hilary Duff starring as a modern day Cinderella with cell phones in Los Angeles? The premise to “A Cinderella Story” had cheese written all over it. We all know the story of Cinderella, so it’s not like there was a surprise around every corner. Yet somehow, the movie was enjoyable.
The Movie
Duff plays Sam, who is forced to live with her evil botox-obsessed step-mother (Jennifer Coolidge) after her father dies in an earthquake. She spends her whole life scrubbing floors and doing whatever her step-mother says because she needs her money to go to Princeton, where she plans on finding her prince.
An e-relationship begins with the most popular boy (Chad Michael Murray) in school, but Sam is afraid to let him know that she is the one who he has been secretly conversing with for so many months. They agree to meet at the school’s costume party, where she hides her identity by wearing a small black cloth to cover just her eyes. Everyone is fooled and nobody knows who she is. How simply covering her eyes can keep her identity a secret is a mystery to us all.
The producers do a superb job modernizing the classic fairytale. It is definitely a teen flick, but without the feeling of a dumbed-down storyline. The plot, with the expected predictability, was clever, the characters were well developed, and Duff plays Cinderella like no other young actress would be able to. Perfect choice.
Extra Features
A very interesting feature that is normally not included is the actors’ screen tests. Actors are usually embarrassed because they are without their makeup and it looks like a homemade movie. But it is interesting to see Chad Michael Murray’s first screen test with Duff and how far along the character came. It might not have been a reflection of his acting, but Murray first portrayed his character as a shy and quiet guy, whereas in the movie, the “prince” is much more confident.
There’s a look into how they made Hilary Duff look like an average girl. (You can’t, they failed, but at least the makeup artists acknowledge the difficulty in such a task.)
Plus, the usuals are included: commentary, deleted scenes, trailers, and a game.
4*
For more information on A Cinderella Story, visit acinderellastory.com
