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.
“Music and Lyrics” is a pretty decent romantic comedy, but it has the ability to be a lot better.
The film, which opens on Valentine’s Day, tells the story of Alex Fletcher (Hugh Grant) – a washed up, old-news ’80s pop idol (it’s kind of what happened to the “other” guy in Wham!). His career fizzled after his ’80s supergroup, Pop!, broke up. His partner in the band went on to a successful solo career, but Alex is stuck playing gigs at high school reunions or the local fair. Enter his agent, Chris Riley (Brad Garrett) who gets Alex a meeting with the news poptart, Cora (Haley Bennett), who wants him to write a song for her. In four days.
As Alex begins pounding out a song with a song writer, his plant waterer, Sophie (Drew Barrymore) has a knack for writing lyrics, so Alex encourages her to help him write the song. And the traditional romantic comedy script plays out, the two fall in love, get ripped apart, etc.
Grant is fabulous in his role, although there are times you can see the disdain in his actions as he goes through the motions of being Alex, who the audience loathes at times. But he does get into the role as much as he can, and there is lots of dancing, so Grant does provide a lot of laughs. He also sings the songs himself, his voice almost on the breaking level, who know where your voice is about to break or crack, but as Entertainment Weekly comments, it just shows the silliness of ’80s pop music – you didn’t have to sing in order to make money and be a success.
Barrymore is the wrong choice for the role of Sophie. Although typically she is well cast in the role of the lovable loser (“Never Been Kissed”), in this role it just seems uncomfortable. As well, Grant is aging, his baby face is disappearing, but Barrymore still has hers, so on one level it seems like a creepy May-December romance. A better casting choice may have been Sarah Jessica Parker, who has mastered playing the lovable loser; she looks closer to Grant’s age and she can sing as well.
The film is good, but has a little too many subplots, especially Sophie’s ex-lover who wrote a novel about her, that never seem to get resolved. And the fact that Sophie is Alex’s plant waterer just seems a little too odd. Make her something more enticing, like his dog walker, or house cleaner, or something a little more believable.
Kristen Thompson steals every scene she’s in as Sophie’s sister, Rhonda, who goes all schoolgirl giddy over Alex.
However, for being a romantic comedy, the film is enjoyable. It’s a great way to spend Valentine’s Day with your significant other, or a bunch of girlfriends. Just a bit of warning: Pop’s number one hit, “Pop Goes My Heart,” will be stuck in your head as you exit the theatre.
