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.
The Ex isn’t just your average fair anymore – it’s the place to see some hot concerts.
The Trews will be making a stop on their current tour to play The Ex – the end-of-summer Toronto fest – on August 23. The Canadian boys have just released their fourth CD, “No Time For Later.”
Burlington band Silverstein will be rocking the CNE’s Bandshell stage the next evening, with their new material from their album, “Arrivals & Departures.” They’ll be joined by Sights and Sounds.
Brandy’s little brother and gossip target Ray J will add some R&B flavour to the lineup.
And in case that wasn’t enough variety, Mickey Rooney and his wife Jan will woo the crowds with “song, dance and his timeless humour and charm.”
For more information and a complete schedule of all the events, visit theex.com.
Of course the star makes a difference. Maybe not the kind of difference studios wish they made (unless it’s Will Smith or a satirization of a given industry starring Will Ferrell); they certainly don’t have the impact of good characters, established worlds, an irresistible hook, or a coherent story. But as execs have pointed out, a bad movie with Bruce Willis will make more money than a bad movie without Bruce Willis. The trick is finding a star enough people like.
I never watched Scrubs until I fell in love with Garden State, and I can assure you The Ex will be more enjoyable if (like me) you’re a fan of its star, Zach Braff. It will be nearly as enjoyable if you’re a fan of Arrested Development and its star, Jason Bateman (though he plays the bad guy here), and it’s also worth seeing if you enjoy the presence of Amanda Peet.
Braff plays Tom Riley, who at the beginning of the movie is a chef at a five-star restaurant that caters to Wall Street brokers, while his pregnant wife, Sofia (Peet), is about to quit her job at a successful law firm to be a full-time mom. They plan on living off of Tom’s upcoming promotion, until his boss, a hot-headed business type who appears to be a stockbroker himself, forces one of Tom’s coworkers to work on the day of his sister’s wedding (Boss: “I can’t keep track of your social lives. You should have told me.” Co-worker: “I did tell you.”), then fires Tom’s best friend when he sticks up for him. It’s a well-timed moment that will hit home for anyone who’s suffered at the hands of a clueless manager. Tom, whom Sofia fell in love with because he cuts through such bullshit, acts as a cipher for the intelligent members of the audience: he covers his boss in butterscotch and chocolate sauce.
Fast forward. Tom and Sofia relocate themselves to the Ohio suburbs, where her dad (Charles Grodin, his first role in 13 years) has gotten Tom a job at an advertising firm. Almost immediately Tom is subjected to the “yes ball,” post-it notes so coworkers can write each other apologies, and a wheelchair-bound mentor, Chip (Bateman) – the “ex” of the title – an irredeemable creep who once slept with his wife and immediately steals his best advertising idea.
You know where this is going. What’s important is how fun it is getting there.
The Ex starts off on the wrong track (do we really need jokes about misshapen genitals and women defecating during labour?), but soon picks up. The best part is how most of its set-ups, no matter how ludicrous, don’t come off as contrivances. It makes sense when Tom and Sofia meet Wesley (newcomer Lucian Maisel), a boy next door whose father is rarely home for him. It makes sense that this kid eating a burger in one gulp would be a great campaign for a sauce that goes on the hamburgers. It makes sense when Tom and Sofia start hitting each other with baseball bats.
Like all of Braff’s work, there is reasoning behind the madness, and a theme: the more fed up you are with corporate culture, political correctness, and society’s extra-thick layer of bullshit, the more you’ll enjoy it. Obviously I can’t speak for everyone at my advance screening, since I laughed the most out of perhaps nine people there (a few scenes got laughs from the entire audience, and the lady to my right laughed almost as much), and at least two critics left saying they simply don’t “get” Braff. If Garden State and Scrubs’ form of quirky group therapy doesn’t work for you, there’s nothing to change your mind here. But for what it is (and enough people seem to like it), it’s rather good.
This is the kind of breezy entertainment studios could easily make more of and for some reason never seem to.
3.5*
