Update: Annie’s recap is live! We’re back, DANCMSTRs, for Week 8 of Planet Mirrorballus madness. Tonight, the remaining five couples must dance TWICE. Let’s all cross our impossibly bejeweled fingers that Dopey Italiano‘s multifaceted eyes don’t pop out of his well-tanned noggin! As always, nominate your Hidden Gems of the Week in the comments. READ FULL STORY »
Archive: May 2011 (321-330 of 457)
May 9
2011
07:41 PM ET
PopWatch Diary: Alyson Hannigan talks 'How I Met Your Mother' finale, charity project, and Target date nights. This is why I love her.
Because New York City traffic comes to a virtual stand-still when it’s raining, I was ten minutes late for a group lunch with How I Met Your Mother star (and Buffy the Vampire Slayer alum) Alyson Hannigan last week. That’s 20 minutes later than I had hoped to arrive to the Hard Rock Cafe in Times Square, where I’d be meeting her for the first time as part of an event to promote her work with StubHub’s Mom’s Night Out program, which encourages the hardest working women in the world to take a night off for some summer fun and benefit Adopt-A-Classroom in the process. READ FULL STORY »
May 9
2011
06:59 PM ET
'This Must Be the Place' vs. 'The Skin I Live In': Which Cannes entry gives you the heebie-jeebies?
Which is scarier: A masked, bald woman wielding a knife, or Sean Penn? Strangely, I’d have to say the latter… but only in the clip embedded below from Paolo Sorrentino’s Cannes entry This Must Be the Place. In the film, Penn channels The Cure’s Robert Smith in looks and Truman Capote in speech (or so it sounds, based on his static delivery) as an ex-musician searching — with Frances McDormand — for a Nazi who shamed his dearly departed father. He’s also just as good at applying makeup as a teenage me. Also embedded after the jump: Pedro Almodóvar’s The Skin I Live In, a horror film about a plastic surgeon (Antonio Banderas) attempting to create a new skin for his wife. Two creepy clips, one film festival: Cannes. Looks like the south of France is about to get weird, PopWatchers. READ FULL STORY »
May 9
2011
06:15 PM ET
YouTube offers schlocky movie rentals. Why won't they capitalize on nostalgia?
Good news: YouTube has announced that it has added over 3,000 new movies available for Internet surfers to rent on the site. The bad news: Most of them are D-list schlock like Curse of the Komodo and Land of the Little People. Now that might actually be good news for those of you who are bad movie aficionados (I’d count myself one of them, but I’d prefer my awful cinematic experiences to come complete with a Joel, Tom Servo, and Crow), but it seems a missed opportunity. Yes, the website offers quality fare like Ghostbusters and Charade, but part of me feels that a YouTube rental service should act as a YouTube rental service: If we’re going to see awful offers, let’s at least make sure they’re nostalgic offers. UPDATE: YouTube has posted such new offerings as Taxi Driver, Caddyshack, Goodfellas, The King’s Speech, and Inception, so here’s to quality rentals!
Think about it: How many times have you gone to YouTube in order to check out a clip from Houseguest or Drop Dead Fred (otherwise known as those films you constantly passed in Hollywood Video as a child, their covers forever cemented in your brain)? READ FULL STORY »
May 9
2011
05:50 PM ET
Cee Lo adapts 'Forget You' for ode to firefighters. Now this is a tribute!
I love weepy, piano-filled tributes as much as the next person — especially when they’re recorded by large groups of artists who normally wouldn’t share a dressing room, much less the verse of a song. I can even admit I’m inexplicably fascinated by those music videos where all of said stars gather in a single room and “sing” the song with dramatic hand gestures. But leave it to Cee Lo to turn a cheesy pastime into something that is genuinely awesome. READ FULL STORY »
May 9
2011
05:21 PM ET
Will you re-read 'The Hunger Games' after casting is complete?
I have a shameful confession to make, PopWatchers: I only just read The Hunger Games for the first time a few weeks ago. If you’ve found it in your hearts to forgive me for this major pop culture blunder, I’ll continue.
After months of endless urging from friends and colleagues that I would love these books (they were, as per usual, right) I finally read them. A funny thing though, I read the books — in record time, I might add — right before all the major casting news about the feature film adaptation broke, when all the casting rumors were still running rampant.
In fact, just as I was getting familiar with Katniss Everdeen, Oscar-nominee Hailee Steinfeld was one of the top names being thrown around to play the part of the heroine. I immediately changed my image of how Katniss looked in my mind to Hailee, which no doubt hindered my interpretation of the book and the character (Katniss all of a sudden had a True Grit-like accent). Alas, Hailee did not get cast, and my visualization was blown to bits worse than some poor souls in the Reaping. READ FULL STORY »
May 9
2011
04:50 PM ET
Michael Bolton and the real story behind 1991's 'Said I Loved You... But I Lied' video
The ironic celebration of “major cinephile” Michael Bolton’s music continues over at Funny or Die, where music-video producers Devin Schandel (Rob Riggle) and Hattie Carmichael (Lauryn Kahn) honor the 20th anniversary of “Said I Loved You… But I Lied,” with a Criterion-style behind-the-scenes look-back. You remember the video, dominated by wild horses, fire pits, bald eagles, and unforgiving chest hair. According to the producers, however, Bolton’s desert brilliance was a mirage, fueled by pajote and absinthe-fueled episodes that oftentimes put the crew in danger. “It was always a pretty bad scene when Michael had a gun,” admits Schandel, who recalls Bolton’s nighttime shooting spree that may or may not have cost the production 17 of its 22 interns, who remain missing today. READ FULL STORY »
May 9
2011
04:25 PM ET
'The Thin Man' poll: Who's Johnny Depp's Nora?
Image Credit: Kevin Mazur/WireImage.com
Now that The Thin Man remake with Johnny Depp officially has a director — Rob Marshall — can his Nora be far behind? Last October, we asked you who would make the best partner for Depp’s dapper detective, Nick Charles, and a flock of Oscar-nominated actresses were suggested. In the original 1934 film, the first of six films with William Powell and Myrna Loy playing the clever duo, the wealthy couple bantered witticisms while solving crimes with panache, so Depp’s costar needs to be his equal in every way. Who gets your vote? We gathered together some of your best answers. Vote in the poll after the jump! READ FULL STORY »
May 9
2011
04:00 PM ET
Happy Birthday, John Corbett! You're 50 today! Wait, what?!
Image Credit: Chris Hatcher/PR Photos
John Corbett, you sly dog, you. Not only have you managed to get moms throughout the U.S. to name their sons Aidan after your beloved Sex and the City character and kept one of Hollywood’s most intriguing romances (re: you and Bo Derek) well out of the public eye, but you’d also pulled off the greatest stunt of all: looking really, super ridiculously good-looking for your age.
Seriously, is the guy taking a page from the George Clooney Getting-More-Handsome-As-He-Ages Book of Wizardry? When did the philosophical guy from Northern Exposure turn 50?! Also, can Northern Exposure come back? READ FULL STORY »
May 9
2011
03:32 PM ET
'The Killing' Clue Tracker: The detectives get frustrated. We know the feeling.
Image Credit: Carole Segal/AMC
Like Councilman Darren Richmond’s floundering political fortunes, The Killing is taking a hit in the public opinion polls (and ratings) as the AMC murder mystery struggles to find dramatic traction in the middle episodes of its rookie season. Perhaps this was inevitable; serial dramas that mount year-long campaigns of story often spin their wheels right about now. But that doesn’t make the dawdle any less disappointing. The Killing does have its unique frustrations. The show has irked many viewers by doting on the anguish of Rosie Larsen’s parents; “grief porn” is a phrase I’ve read here and there. Others, like critic Alan Sepinwall, have been lamenting the show’s formulaic approach to each episode’s investigation narrative, wherein (and I’m paraphrasing Sepinwall’s analysis here) nothing much happens until the discovery of a seemingly significant clue in the last scene, which is then quickly processed or forgotten the following week. (More on Rosie’s alluringly cryptic super 8 movie! Please!) And then there is the political subplot of Seattle’s mayoral contest, which is beginning to strain credulity, and the ongoing matter of Linden constantly delaying her move to California to start her new life with fiancé Rick, although that doesn’t bother me as much as it bothers other people.
The Killing’s storytelling structure – each episode covers a day (or so) in the life – justifies a slower pace and rationalizes whole episodes devoted to minimal-gain grunt work and multi-episode arcs showcasing suspects who may or may not be dead ends. Still, being pseudo-realistic can come at the cost of being genuinely riveting. Last night’s episode – entitled “Vengeance” — was the first time The Killing grated on me. READ FULL STORY »
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