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.
I don’t like horror movies. I don’t mind violence, but only as a means to an end, and in horror movies violence is the end. I don’t see the entertainment value in watching people getting shot, cut, stabbed and chopped for no apparent reason. Taking the Mars Attacks route – making the characters jerks – just leaves me with the same feeling as going to a bar and spending two hours with real jerks – I have better things to do, why am I wasting my time here?
That said, I realize many people don’t like animation. They aren’t engaged by computer-generated images or moving drawings, and have a hard time identifying with anthropomorphic animals or inanimate objects. They associate the medium either with mediocre family entertainment or a base level of humour – which, unfortunately, much if it is – and dismiss it outright. And for all that it remains one of my favourite genres.
Many people – and almost all critics – similarly loathe a certain type of mass-market, broadly comic, dramatic, or romantic confection, the kind whose screenplay is “written” when the screenwriter fills in certain blanks, the director hires certain stars, the producers put together a prepackaged campaign, and everyone at the studio watches the money roll in.
August Rush is one such confection. Whether I like it or not is irrelevant – the IMDB calls it “a drama with fairy tale elements,” and you’ve probably seen the trailer (if you haven’t, click
here). Both sell the movie perfectly. Either you’ll think it’s a heartwarming story of a kid reuniting with his long-lost parents and a testament to the power of music, or you’ll think it’s another pile of sentimental claptrap starring Robin Williams. Both judgments are equally correct.
To those who believe they will like it, I offer my humble critic’s opinion: while the music (by Mark Mancina) is excellent, it is only August (Freddie Highmore) and the Wizard (Williams) who seem truly moved by the power of music – except for one scene, I did not glean a similar sense of enjoyment from the parents (Keri Russell and Jonathan Rhys Meyers). Also, the movie either overdoes its real-life elements or underplays its fairy tale elements – there are far too many
coincidences for the former and not enough magic for the latter. Perhaps if young August had been interested in fairy tales in the first place the unrealistic elements would have seemed less out of place, but there’s no point in crying over spilt milk, is there?
To those who would rather have their eyes gouged out it is indeed everything you feared it would be, with a typical borderline lunatic performance by Williams; further proof he should stick to material where you’re meant to hate him.
While I’m not typically a fan of dramatic confectionery, August Rush is built around three of my favourite themes – music, fairy tales and the relationship between kids and their parents – and I’ll see anything except R.V. with Robin Williams. It’ll probably end up on my shelf next to Music of the Heart and The Mighty, two other personal favourites which could be seen as sentimental claptrap, and which happen to incorporate music and are suitable family films.
