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.
Marina and The Diamonds are working on some new music, but Marina is being very secretive about it. Although the release has been delayed, she let’s us in on some secrets about the new album, and how alcohol changed her life.
Deadline Hollywood Daily reports that Emile Hirsch has hastily parted ways with the United Talent Agency.
This comes just days after Hirsch’s big flick, “Speed Racer,” came in third place at the box office. Adding to the scandal is that Warner Bros. tried to lie about how much money the movie earned.
Hirsch’s now former agent, Shani Rosenzweig, is “gobsmacked” about the actor’s departure. He had been with the agency for more than seven years.
“He claims he just doesn’t want an agent,” an insider told the site.
The promising young actor will next appear in the Gus Van Sant film, “Milk.”
The Wachowski Brothers’ kaleidoscopic retelling of the classic cartoon series “Speed Racer” opened this weekend with an estimated $20.02 million with “Iron Man” coming in first with $50.05 million.
“In terms of Warner Bros., this is a yellow flag of caution,” said Bock of Exhibitor Relations Co. “Don’t be surprised if Speed Racer comes in third, when all is said and done.”
Speed Racer’s failure to succeed at the box office is disastrous considering the movie cost well in excess of $100 million and Warner Bros. expected the movie to be a major summer hit.
“Iron Man” is already Marvel’s 2008 top earner, with a 10-day total that now stands at $177.1 million.
“Movies are so rarely great art that if we cannot appreciate great trash we have very little reason to be interested in them.”
- Pauline Kael
The question is, what did the siblings Wachowski (The Matrix trilogy, V For Vendetta) set out to accomplish, and what did they achieve with Speed Racer? Could their dialogue and characters have better served the story? Could the roles have been better cast? The question is not whether the dialogue could have been more realistic, or the characters deeper, or the plot more unpredictable and profound. Some ideas beg for deep characters, realistic dialogue, and unpredictable plots. Others, likeSpeed Racer, would be sunk by them.
Whether setting out to be groundbreakingly philosphical indie cinema or the finest garbage, a film is best served by being true to its setup. This is why, for example, I maintain that Independence Day is a better movie than, say, War of the Worlds, although the latter is more ambitious. Within its parameters,Independence Day delivers what it promises: vicious aliens, noble, one-dimensional heroes, and landmarks blowing up in spectacular fashion. War of the Worldsdoes not.
There is, of course, an argument to be made whether money should be wasted on a given idea in the first place (which is why trailers for 10,000 BC – made by the director of Independence Day, oddly enough – made me want to cry), and even deliberate trash is poorly served by inconsistent plots and underdeveloped characters (hence the general outcry against Independence Day’s follow-up, Godzilla).
But, if a given idea – like, say, a live-action update of a cheeseball retro-futuristic anime series the audience might have a passing awareness of thanks to Family Guy – has just enough merit to justify its existence, then the question becomes whether its concept has been turned into the best movie it can be. In Speed Racer’s case: is the art direction really that spectacular? (Yes.) Are the action sequences enjoyable? (Yes.) During said sequences, can you tell what’s going on? (Yes. Until the very end.) Is the plot engaging enough to hold them together? (Yes.) Are the characters likeable? (Yes.) Do they have plausible character arcs? (Yes.) Is the movie primarily aimed at kids or adults? (Kids and young teenagers – though everyone will be impressed by the visuals.) Is there objectionable content? (Three or four mild swear words, and you could make an argument that many of the women are glorified hood ornaments. That said, they do race, and the supporting cast is multiracial.)
(And for those who remember the series…) Is there kung fu? (Yes. And ninjas.)
What I’m trying to say, as eloquently as possible, is that Speed Racer is trash. Hokey, exciting, polished, predictable, cohesive, distinctively edited, wonderfully acted, perfectly cast, gloriously entertaining trash.
