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 have mentioned before that I like studio films – good ones – but have also seen enough of them to recognize the off-the-shelf formulas, the test audience-driven elements, the ingredients calculated to elicit gasps, groans, cheers, arousal and – ideally – repeat business from various segments of moviegoers. Rare is the studio film that feels like its makers genuinely wanted to entertain you – most of them begin with a producer (or producers) deciding a given idea will attract a profitable audience, and everyone from the director on down making sure the resulting film does so. If moviegoers are lucky, it will be entertaining.
Independent movies, on the other hand, are made with a greater purpose in mind. Profit matters – always has, always will – but independent filmmakers know that art house audiences are after quality, not predictability, and that a good movie will typically yield good business.
Nick and Norah’s Infinite Playlist is not an example of why I see independent movies.
You can feel the wheels of the screenplay turning from the moment the film opens. Every word that Nick (Michael Cera) speaks into his ex-girlfriend’s answering machine (which he erases before delivering) is for the benefit of the audience; each line at Norah’s (Kat Dennings) high school either establishes that A) she hates Nick’s ex (Alexis Dziena); B) is perfect for Nick; or C) has the sort of relationship with her friend Caroline (Ari Graynor) that will get one or both of them in trouble. To get Nick out of his New Jersey home and Norah from high school, their favourite independent band, Where’s Fluffy, announces a surprise concert which could be at any one of five (or more) locations. Nick’s band happens to be playing at the first location Norah visits. When Nick and Norah meet and decide they don’t like each other, Caroline, who’s now drunk, goes missing. And so on.
A public service announcement: the film contains one of the most gag-inducing running jokes in recent memory. A wad of gum, initially chewed by Caroline, is thrown up and lands in a used toilet at Penn station. With her bare hands (and the camera focused firmly on the toilet bowl and its tranluscent chocolate-coloured water), Caroline frees her gum from the murky depths and sticks it back into her mouth. She isn’t the last person to chew it either. I haven’t heard an audience collectively groan like that since the hair gel scene in There’s Something About Mary.
To be fair, the movie handles a pair of typically bungled elements especially well: that Cera’s bandmates are gay is established with a single line (“you don’t know what it’s like to be straight”), and instead of mining it for laughs, the film acknowledges their sexuality and moves on. Likewise, it’s clear none of the main characters are virgins, but their activities are neither exploited nor ignored; they’re simply acknowledged when needed and remain offstage when not.
The two leads are well cast. As Nick, Michael Cera may not look like the kind of guy who would command Kat Dennings’ attention during a concert, but in every other aspect he’s perfect. In her first lead role, Dennings (Catherine Keener’s daughter in The 40-Year-Old Virgin) handles herself admirably, wearing a tentative smile that suggests far more character development than the script does.
The problem is the long arm of the plot remains tangled in everything until the last half hour, at which point Nick and Norah are progressing smoothly, but without any surprises. The film is an unabashed crowd-pleaser, as engaging, warm-hearted – and calculated – as any studio-backed Oscar winner.
