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.
What the hell is Susan Sarandon doing in Mr. Woodcock? I realize she’s ideal in the caring mother role (she played the same part – albeit a lot more kooky – in Elizabethtown), and I realize a certain prescence was needed to match wits with the, um, formidable talents of Billy Bob Thornton and Seann William Scott (yes, Sling Blade proved Thornton was capable of great acting, but he hasn’t matched it since). But Sarandon is far and above those two, and her character is easily the weakest in the movie. Then again it’s also a testament to how weakly middle-aged female characters are written that she would need to accept a role that’s so boring in the first place.
Also, this is one of those shelf films that was made two years ago. Just before Sarandon was offered the villainess role in Enchanted, out this December.
Sarandon’s Beverley Farley is actually the only poorly-written character in Mr. Woodcock, which came as a surprise to me and probably every other critic at my screening. And, like most poorly-written supportive mothers, she at least provides the necessary impact when, near the end of the movie, she finally confronts her boys about their obvious enmity.
The other roles are sharply written: Seann William Scott’s character, John Farley, is a likeable, decent guy, with a solid life philosophy that could easily have produced a bestseller, and it’s not hard for a minute to believe he was affected the way he is by Mr. Woodcock (Thornton), his seventh-grade gym teacher, a prickly amalgamation of every worst instructor anyone’s ever had. Woodcock’s belief is that life isn’t fair, and the sooner he can teach you that, by forcing asthma sufferers to run laps or people who forgot their gym clothes to change in front of the other students, the better. Also, I’m happy to report that his name is never used as a pun during the entire movie (though it does have the obvious jokes about his lovemaking prowess).
The writers, Michael Carne and Josh Gilbert, pepper their film with terrific supporting characters like Ethan Suplee’s fellow sufferer, Needleman, who now works in a fast food restaurant and has a tendency to say the wrong thing at the right moment for his coworkers to, um, needle him, and Amy Poehler as Farley’s alcoholic agent. The writing and timing of many of the script’s comedic setpieces, such as a run-through of the folks who line up for an autograph at the beginning, is note-perfect.
Is the movie as stupid as the trailers make it look? Of course it is. What brings Farley back to his Nebraska hometown is the “cornival,” where his mother is some kind of corn queen and as a local hero he’ll be given the “corn cob key.” There’s also a thankless role for one Melissa Sagemiller, as Farley’s middle school crush. But the “cornival” is literally about as corny as it gets, and if you’re in the mood for a comedy about a thirtysomething coming face-to-face with his nastiest teacher (come to think of it, mine was in seventh grade too), this one’s certainly worth seeing.
Mr. Woodcock doesn’t hit the better-than-it-has-any-right-to-be heights of Dodgeball or Zoolander, nor is it a modern comedy classic like Knocked Up or The 40-Year-Old Virgin. It reminds me, in fact, of this year’s earlier two-year shelf release, The Ex. I liked that one too. Take of that what you will.
