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.
How unfortunate that Little Miss Sunshine contains bad language and sex content. If I had a daughter I can’t think of a non-Miyazaki movie I’d rather take her to. This is not a family film, and I do not recommend allowing children to see it without supervision (I do not recommend children under eight see it at all), but that said, I think viewing this film at a young age would cause far less psychological damage than, say, watching Snow White, or Sleeping Beauty, or anything starring Barbie. While I’d love to believe the fervour with which this movie objectifies its seven- and eight-year-old “models” at the titular beauty pageant is exaggerated, it probably isn’t. And happily, the movie (written by first-timer Michael Arndt and directed by husband-and-wife team Jonathan Dayton and Valerie Faris) is as disgusted by it as we are.
Little Miss Sunshine, despite the title, has the darkest of setups. The scholar Frank, played by Steve Carell and a beard, has been through a rough patch and tries to kill himself. The authorities contact his sister, Sheryl (Toni Collette), and he’s sent to live with her family, which includes one of those fathers who can’t do anything without consulting Seven Habits of Highly Effective People or one of its knockoffs (Greg Kinnear), a son who upon discovering Nietzsche hasn’t spoken in nine months (relative newcomer Paul Dano), a horny grandfather (Alan Arkin; “Get me some porn,” he says to Frank at one point in the movie. “And make sure it’s real dirty stuff too, none of that airbrushed shit”), and seven-year-old Olive (the daughter in Signs, Abigail Breslin), who recently placed runner-up in a local beauty pageant. No sooner does Frank arrive than she’s informed the winner had to give up her crown – allowing her to compete in the Little Miss Sunshine competition. The family piles into a Volkswagen minibus and prepares to make its way from Albuquerque, New Mexico, to California.
And so begins an ensemble comedy that reminded me very much of the films of Alexander Payne. Like About Schmidt and Sideways, Little Miss Sunshine revels in the flawed, the pointless, the bizarre – because, after all, that’s the part of life that makes it worth living. It does not believe in glamourizing our existence, or dividing us into “winners” and “losers;” it knows that everyone involved can make a difference, and if it doesn’t spread beyond the family, that’s all right. And how wonderful it would be if real seven-year-old beauty pageant contestants (or anyone of a young age who thinks that outward beauty – defined by stick-thin figures and swimsuits that show off the roundness of your thighs – is all that matters) could see this film, and have it laid out for them just how insane our beauty-obsessed culture can be (at one point Kinnear’s character advises Olive not to eat her ice cream because it will make her fat – thankfully by the end of the scene the others have turned her around).
It’s an odd journey, and it won’t make friends with every critic (I can see it now: “The movie establishes Steve Carell as the protagonist but then gradually forgets about him.”), but it’s consistent, and the acting is terrific. It spans 800 miles and two days, gives at least one important scene to each of the family members, packs in a few solid laughs and the occasional life lesson while remaining true to the characters, and finishes up with a finale so jawdroppingly ludicrous, it would sink the movie if the directors didn’t already realize it was so ridiculous.
And that’s where my review will end. To say more about Little Miss Sunshine would spoil the movie’s unpredictable predictability, which turns out to be its stock in trade. It sorta goes where you’d expect a road movie to, but not quite.
I will say I think one of the surprises was a little too far out of left field. And that I would have liked some more closure with Carell’s character; the film may be an ensemble piece, but it started out focusing on him, after all.
4*
