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.
There are three basic qualities that all great movies have.
First, a great movie must have a great writer.
Despite the fact that they?re rarely seen and infrequently talked about, movies are about writers, not directors, and certainly not actors. A brilliant director cannot save a bad script, but it takes a truly abominable director to destroy a good screenplay.
The second thing a great movie must have is a great director.
Despite what I just said above, a bad director can prevent a quality script from achieving greatness.
Whenever you finish a movie and say to yourself, ?It was a good premise, but it fell flat in the execution,? that is the fault of a bad director. Without vision and genius, a director cannot turn a decent script into a decent finished product.
The final, and most important quality of a great movie is unwillingness to compromise.
Without exception, every movie out there that achieves iconic status, compromises were made in the production process, but the artistic vision never wavered.
On this final point, I want to spend a bit of extra time, because I cannot stress its importance.
A while back, I talked about Sin City. As I recall, I gave it a glowing review.
In each case, their seeds of greatness were in their unwillingness go compromise.
Sin City?s creator, Frank Miller, refused 11 offers to make Sin City before he finally agreed to do it with Robert Rodriguez. When he did finally agree, he retained an iron-grip, stranglehold on the creative process.
I pity the people who had to work with Miller, I can only imagine how painful it must have been trying reproduce his comic books in live action and computer generated images.
However, the end result speaks for itself. No compromises (that I know of) were made in the creative process, and that is why it is so awesome to watch.
On the other hand, the most famous example of a cinematic compromise is Lord of the Rings.
In the first movie (Fellowship of the Ring) Liv Tyler had now business being on that horse in the middle of the river. It wasn?t her character that did that in the book, why should it be her character in the movie?
Similarly, where the hell was Tom Bombadil?
He was one of my favourite parts of the Fellowship of the Rings (the book) and he was killed with a flick of the pen.
If you haven?t read the book, and/or seen the movie, you won?t know what I?m talking about. But if that?s the case, read the books, then watch the movies, then let me know what you think.
I?ve been saying these things for years, so I know all of the standard rebuttals.
If they had made a completely faithful adaptation, the movie would have been five hours long.
So?
Am I the only member of my generation who?s watched Ben-Hur? Or Sparticus? Or Casino? Or Patton? These are not short movies, but that doesn?t make them bad movies.
The bottom line is that there are two types of movies.
Some movies are made for mainstream audiences (and I don?t even watch these movies anymore unless someone I trust tells me it?s good.)
These movies tend to make respectable amounts of money at the box office, but five years down the road, no one will ever remember them.
The other type of movie is the sort that?s made for people who really love movies.
When one of these is made, and it?s good, it becomes a timeless treasure.
But when it doesn?t work, the general public ignores it, and the film aficionados for whom it?s made, turn into a pack of jackals and rip it to shreds.
This is why so few of these movies ever get made ? they?re a gamble, and even if they do turn out well, there?s still the risk that they won?t make much money.
Over the weekend I was watching Casablanca; it?s one of my all time favourite movies.
However, watching it I realized that if the same movie were made today, Ilsa would probably end up with Rick, and Victor would probably die in a hail of gunfire fighting for the cause, or perhaps a really big explosion.
Because that (apparently) is what audiences want.
So I suppose what I?m trying to say is this:
For all of the great, uncompromising movies out there, here?s looking at you, kid.
