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.
A bug-eyed robot has edged out the Caped Crusader for top movie of 2008 according to the Los Angeles Critics Assn.
The group chose Pixar’s “WALL-E” as the year’s best picture in its annual voting Tuesday, marking the first time in the association’s history that it has given the title to an animated film.
Christopher Nolan’s “The Dark Knight” fell just short of the honour, taking the runner-up spot instead. However, the blockbuster did earn a win in the best supporting actor category for the late Heath Ledger’s performance as the Joker.
Penelope Cruz won in the supporting actress category for her work in two films: “Vicky Cristina Barcelona” and “Elegy.”
Overall, no one film dominated the winners’ list. Sean Penn was named best actor for his portrayal of late San Francisco gay politician Harvey Milk in “Milk,” while Sally Hawkins won best actress for her role as a free-spirited schoolteacher in “Happy-Go-Lucky.”
Best director went to Danny Boyle for “Slumdog Millionaire,” which was named best film of 2008 last week by the National Board of Review.
The awards will be presented Jan. 12 at the critics’ annual banquet.
Animation fans seem to agree that Pixar films fall into one of three categories. Category 1 is the undisputed classics: the Toy Story films and The Incredibles. Category 2 is the rest of their non-Cars filmography, ranging from disputed classics like Ratatouille and Finding Nemo to the underrated Monsters Inc. and A Bug’s Life. While wonderful, these movies lack a certain je ne sais quoi that keep them from unanimously ranking among the studio’s best.
Category 3 is Cars.
WALL-E, I am sorry to report, belongs firmly in the second category. While many viewers will justifiably herald the film as one of the decade’s best, an equal number will be vaguely unsatisfied, wondering how the perfection achieved in the first half misses a payoff that’s equally brilliant by such a narrow margin.
I am, of course, criticizing on a relative scale. WALL-E is still better than anything else you’re likely to see this summer, and possibly the best you’ll see all year. Its ambitions are sky-high, and – unlike I Am Legend, Transformers, War of the Worlds, or any one of the numerous megabudgeted sequels involving Spider-Man, George Lucas, the Wachowski brothers and/or pirates released in the last half-decade – it actually reaches them. Its audacity is evident not because it succeeds as a message movie (although it does), but because it’s a largely silent one; a Chaplin-inspired romance with a mechanical cast “voiced” by Pixar producer Elissa Knight and Star Wars legend Ben Burtt. There are English-speakers, certainly, but the film’s most recognizable castmember has the near-anonymous role of a ship’s computer, while said ship’s autopilot (voiced by screen reading software) and the live-action CEO of the corporation which screwed up the planet (Fred Willard) seem to have as many lines as the legitimate “human” characters (all three of them). For the most part, writer/director Andrew Stanton has created a movie anchored by just two and a half players: the sleek, iPod-like EVE and the clumsy, box-like WALL-E. And a cockroach.
On the surface this appears to be an anti-corporate, pro-environmental film. And perhaps it is. But the core idea, about a lone robot, required humans to get off the planet, and so the environmental message actually comes off as secondary. And yes, a corporation was responsible for turning the Hudson river into a tar pit and then evacuating the planet as a quick-fix measure, but how many players can believably get humans off Earth? It’s either corporations or the government. And everything that happens to humans once WALL-E discovers their ship exists, really, to push his relationship with EVE along.
Obviously there’s nothing I can say praising the film which others haven’t already. The art direction is jaw-dropping. The plot is logical and creative. The characters are endearing. The film’s satire (if you’re looking for it) is razor-sharp. Thomas Newman’s score deserves an Oscar. And it includes the first original Pixar vocal track (cowritten and performed by Peter Gabriel) not written by Randy Newman.
But…
Well, there’s a “but.” There is no “but” in The Incredibles. There’s no “but” in the Toy Story films. Heck, there’s no “but” in Monster’s Inc. or A Bug’s Life. There is, unfortunately, a “but” in WALL-E.
For me the “but” came at the end, during an artificially manufactured and entirely pointless dramatic sequence. For others it occurs when seeing the first humans. For still others it’s the coldness inherent in robots – Cartoon Brew’s Jerry Beck, one of the most respected historians in the business, is on record saying he thoughtKung Fu Panda was superior because he couldn’t connect with the characters. For whatever reason, WALL-E will not be ranked among Pixar’s best by everyone.
It remains, however, a movie you should see, because there’s nothing else quite like it. Not even Chaplin. And I’ve seen City Lights.
THQ announced yesterday in a press release that it will be developing the game adaptation of this summer’s Disney/Pixar animated movie Wall-E.
Developed internally by THQ’s Heavy Iron studio, creators of The Incredibles game and the Sponge Bob Square Pants movie game, the game promises to allow players to relive moments from the movie as well as deliver entirely new storylines and environments not present in the movie.
Wall-E will be the second game developed under the 2004 agreement made between THQ and Disney/Pixar which grants THQ the rights to create games for four Disney/Pixar film properties. Ratatouille was the first game developed by THQ under this agreement.
The game is expected to be released this summer along side the movie and will be available on all major platforms.
