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 preferred Made of Honor when it was called My Best Friend’s Wedding. But then I like Julia Roberts and Cameron Diaz a lot more than I like Patrick Dempsey and Michelle Monaghan, and Rupert Everett more than Kevin McKidd (the relatively unknown but prolific Scottish actor – you’re most likely to recognize him fromTrainspotting if you recognize him at all – who plays Monaghan’s beau in this movie). It had a more realistic ending too. But I’m not reviewing My Best Friend’s Wedding, so let’s get off that track.
When viewing the typical romantic comedy, a critic is resigned to two concessions: (1) the stars of the film will, by movie’s end, have fallen in love; (2) they will be separated before then by a series of off-the-shelf complications which, if we’re lucky, will be triggered by a somewhat creative setup and actors charismatic enough to make the complications seem organic. Fans of the genre (like me) actually prefer it this way – we know that in real life relationships aren’t that easy, and don’t go to romantic comedies to remind ourselves of this.
For the most part, Made of Honour is a solid romantic comedy, and one I don’t regret seeing. Personally I bought the relationship between Tom (Dempsey) and Hannah (Monaghan), who meet in college during a Hallowe’en party when Tom, in a rare occurrence compared to the rest of the movie, fumbles one of his dates and ends up speaking with her roommate instead. He tells Hannah that women who want to sleep with him have the look (her look) of a dog just before it’s fed. She responds by saying that’s impossible, he’s not only arrogant but his looks are less than perfect, and as an arts student, explains precisely why.
The film then cuts to a typical day in their adult lives, as Tom coaxes Hannah into being his date for his father’s sixth wedding (bringing another girl would imply he wants the relationship to be more than it is) and brings her along when shopping for a gift. They go for a stroll after the wedding, which is when Hannah (who works as a curator) makes the announcement that her museum’s sending her off to Scotland for six weeks.
And here’s what separates Made of Honour from most of the romantic comedies I’ve seen recently: it feels organic. The movie includes, and is not limited to, a main character with no discernable income (apparently Tom invented cupholders and receives three cents for every cup of Starbucks coffee sold); the female lead’s best friend who hates the male lead but secretly wants to sleep with him; the male lead’s friends who bond by insulting each other during physical activity (in this case basketball); a “shower scene” in which the male lead discovers exactly what he’s up against; a speech in which one character is pouring their heart out but the other thinks they mean something else; a scene in which one character catches another in a compromising position and walks out before the other can explain that it’s not what they think it is; a grandmother who wears pleasure beads as a necklace; and every slapstick Scottish stereotype you can imagine. But the setups (except for the compromising position) are so well established, so true to the characters (the most laboured, Tom being nicer to dogs than he is to people, has no discernable payoff) and so believably tied to whatever they’re doing, we don’t realize anything was set up until after the payoff.
Until the last 30 minutes. Whereas My Best Friend’s Wedding is saved by its final act, Made of Honour is sunk by it. The way Tom could have handled his final plea is set up believably: he and Hannah agree that he will tell his father “I’m happy that you’re happy” instead of what he really thinks. And as the movie progresses it’s clear Tom could have given Hannah away as her maid of honour and said “I’m happy that you’re happy” and she’d have understood what he meant. She probably would have chosen him. What happens instead is slapstick, conventional and, like every other romantic comedy, contrived.
I’ll admit that not everyone will buy the central relationship. The movie sets it up as well as it can, but when you’re as close with a friend of the opposite sex as Tom and Hannah are, you know precisely why you aren’t together. Sometimes that reasoning isn’t mutual, which is why the dating-the-best-friend fantasy persists, but it’s understood.
Then again, what do I know? I’m close with my female friends, but I doubt any of them would ask me to be their maid of honour.
