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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.
It is not a critic’s job to provide an accurate barometer of what the public will and will not like. We may act like it is sometimes, but the fact is no one critic can be a perfect barometer for every audience’s emotional, intellectual, spiritual etc. response to a given movie. Part of this reason, of course, is the lack of diversity in critics – more often than not (this critic included) they are White and/or Male. Another reason, however, is there simply is no singular audience response. Movies have a profound capacity to divide audiences in a way that I’ve noticed theatre, television, music, and even books do not. A film like, say, “The Godfather” or “Citizen Kane” may stand the test of time and be near-universally regarded as among the greatest movies ever made, but that doesn’t mean you won’t find people who didn’t like “The Godfather” or “Citizen Kane.” Rotten Tomatoes, the website which keeps track of critical reaction has, in its history, had seven movies score 100% on the tomatometer, and even fewer score 0. By contrast, most video games on its sister site, rottentomatoesgames.com, score 100% or 0% on a regular basis.
However, difficult as it is for the universal quality of movies to be analyzed, it is not as difficult as analyzing what makes us laugh. In comedy more than anything, I believe, one person’s “Jackass” is another person’s “Shakespeare in Love”. And so the best you can hope for in gauging a critic’s response is figuring out how much that critic’s tastes mesh with yours and planning accordingly.
With this in mind, I will inform you that inasmuch as comedy can be analyzed, and declared as universally “funny,” “Borat” is funny. Not just grinning, snorting, occasional belly laugh funny, but sustained, coughing, rolling-in-the-aisles funny. I haven’t been with an audience (and the audience was considerable) that laughed this much at a movie since “There’s Something About Mary.”
I will also inform you that, in the eyes of this critic, who loved the Farrelly Brothers’ 1998 masterpiece, “Borat” is no “There’s Something About Mary.”
Inasmuch as it is difficult to analyze what makes someone laugh, I find that statement difficult to explain. Perhaps this clip from YouTube will help me: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vb3IMTJjzfo
Everyone seen it? Good. The central conceit of “Throw The Jew Down The Well” is that Borat, as played by Cambridge native (and proud Jew) Sacha Baron Cohen, is a sexist, racist, anti-Semitic persona, which he has the uncanny ability of never breaking out of. However, the people he entertains in the bar aren’t in on the joke, and so what you’re seeing is the anti-Semitic ideals lurking just beneath the surface of the people in that Texas bar.
“Borat” — the full title is actually “Borat: Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan” — is basically a series of these sketches, with Cohen revealing various peoples’ sexist, racist, anti-Semitic, homophobic, and evangelical leanings, with the underlying message, “yeah folks, this stuff still exists.” Some of it’s funny. Some of it’s just plain chilling. Depends on your tolerance for sexist, racist, anti-Semitic, homophobic, and evangelical humour.
Personally, I found the evangelical humour funny. But then I have cousins who think I’m going to Hell. As someone who’s seen his share of anti-Semitism (and all but one of my closest friends are Jewish), I never particularly liked the “Throw The Jew Down The Well” sketch (my friends love it), and I don’t particularly care for genuine racism, sexism, and homophobia to be rampant in my humour either. I found “Borat” half chilling, half funny.
It won’t surprise me if this movie is considered a classic in years to come. Like “This Is Spinal Tap,” the movies’ other great mockumentary, it’s too original and its funny moments too funny for it not to be. Individual opinions, however, will vary.
There is some written material. The trailer – “this is Natalya. She is number four prostitute in all of Kazakhstan” – opens the movie. There are a few similar parts scattered throughout. I found these to be among the funniest sequences while the audience stood stone silent. Also, there is a sequence that, while skillfully shot, is unlikely to appeal to any member of the audience: Cohen engaged in a wrestling match that appears to be gay sex with a naked man who is, shall we say, horizontally challenged.
4*
