Tag: PopWatch Confessional (11-20 of 315)

Aug 23 2012 12:21 PM ET

What movie experience made you like people again?

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We all have stories of movies being ruined by people talking through them in the theater. Today, let’s celebrate that time a movie experience actually restored our faith in humanity.

Last night, I went to see Singin’ in the Rain on the big screen, in honor of the film’s 60th anniversary and the fact that today would have been Gene Kelly’s 100th birthday. I was with a friend who’s also a huge Gene Kelly fan, and I told her we should elbow each other each time one of us begins to tear up from pure happiness. Normally, if I’m planning on writing about a movie, I’ll take notes, but I just wanted to enjoy this. I lost count of how many times we nudged each other. I also couldn’t tell you how many times I got chills, or how many times I looked over and saw my friend grinning larger than ever before (I’ve known her 15 years now), or how many times I thought, how long have I been smiling? READ FULL STORY »

Aug 10 2012 12:53 PM ET

PopWatch Confessional: What's the craziest thing the Olympics have inspired you to do?

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As the EW Daily Poll on our homepage shows, Olympic fatigue has officially set in. Most of us will be ready for Sunday’s Closing Ceremony. As the Games come to an end, let’s take a moment to admit the craziest thing(s) obsessive viewing has inspired us to do. I’ll start: Last night, I spent my evening commute listening to Duran Duran’s “All She Wants Is” on repeat and choreographing a team synchronized swimming free routine to it in my head. Considering I just watched Team Australia use an AC/DC medley for its free routine this morning, I assume the song might actually be legal. So if any nation just starting its synchro program wants to work with someone cheap, call me. We could ask Team Spain to borrow its sea monster-themed costumes from today (pictured), which I think would translate nicely. READ FULL STORY »

Jul 5 2012 03:06 PM ET

PopWatch Confessional: Which song puts a grin on your face, even in public?

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My commute is a 45-minute combination of public transportation and walking. I listen to my iPod every day. About once a week, I shuffle onto a song that puts a grin on my face so big, I’m sure I look an idiot. Often, it’s because I’ve flashed back to a particular event, like two friends leading an impromptu dance party in the parking lot of an adventure mini-golf place in the Poconos on a sleepy Saturday afternoon (Lil Jon’s “Get Low”). But the song that gets me the worst (or is it the best?) is Lionel Richie’s “Lady” duet with Kenny Rogers off Tuskegee. Watch them sing it live together below, and you might understand. Part of it, I’m sure, is that I grew up listening to each of them on eight track in the morning before elementary school, so it’s a double dose of nostalgia from a time when I had nothing to do in the morning but listen to an entire album. But mostly, it’s that they sound so damn good together it becomes timeless. There’s an ease, and a confidence, and a sense of perfection when their voices meld together for the crescendo at 2:45. I have to rewind to that point a minimum of five times whenever I play it — and the grin never stops. READ FULL STORY »

May 9 2012 01:00 PM ET

PopWatch Confessional: What's YOUR go-to song for a dance party of one?

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Fair warning, don’t click through if you don’t want to hear a SPOILER from New Girl‘s finale. Last night’s season-ender centered on whether Nick (Jake Johnson) would vacate the loft to live with his on-again girlfriend Caroline. After packing up the moving van and taking all the roommates on an odyssey of togetherness, everyone returned home to the loft without Nick. But then! Nick returned and with a fitting fanfare: AC/DC’s “You Shook Me All Night Long.” The roommates each rocked out in their respective rooms, and it was a wonderful close to a strong first season.

But New Girl wasn’t the only recent show to feature solo dancing. The April 29 episode of Girls found Hannah (Lena Dunham) pepping herself up, appropriately, to Robyn’s “Dancing on My Own.” These two scenes got us thinking about our own favorite solo dance party jams. For me, it’s Simply Red’s “Sunrise (Love To Infinity Radio Mix).” Sometimes a girl just needs to bounce around.

What gets my esteemed colleagues going? And what Celine Dion song made not one but two appearances on the list? Click through to find out, then share your favorite below! READ FULL STORY »

Apr 27 2012 03:42 PM ET

TV Land Awards: Honorees reveal what they kept -- or wished they kept -- from their set. Your picks?

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On Sunday, the 10th-annual TV Land Awards (airing at 9 p.m. ET) reunites the casts of honorees In Living Color, Murphy Brown, Laverne & Shirley, and One Day at a Time. (Pee-wee’s Playhouse and Aretha Franklin, recipient of the Music Icon Award, are also feted). Backstage at the taping earlier this month, we asked a few of the stars what they kept from the set of their beloved shows — or what they wish they would have kept. Read their answers, then give us yours…

In Living Color (recipient of The Groundbreaking Award)

EW: Is there something you kept from the show?
 Keenen Ivory Wayans: I kept them and then I gave all the little hats from the “Men on Film” sketches to Damon [Wayans, pictured].
Is there something you wish you would have kept from the show?
Yeah, all the little hats from the “Men on Film” sketches. [Laughs] READ FULL STORY »

Apr 17 2012 11:50 AM ET

PopWatch Confessional poll: What do you do when the friend you said you'd see a movie with can't go on opening weekend?

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As passionate entertainment fans, we are not always the most patient of people. Your friends have accepted that you like everyone to show up a half hour early for a film even if you’ve ordered tickets in advance. But less endearing, perhaps, is your penchant for needing to a see a film on opening weekend. Let me give you a hypothetical: Let’s say your friend Tamara told you she wanted to see The Lucky One with you. Fantastic. You’d expected to have to go alone because it’s not your birthday, which is the only time your old college friends tend to acquiesce and see whatever you want to see. As it turns out, two more friends in that circle, we’ll call them Sheila and Robb, also want to see the movie. (This is when you remember they also went with you to see Nights in Rodanthe, and you yelled at Robb because he texted during the film. Hypothetically.) A week before the movie’s release, Tamara sends you a reminder that you have to go see the movie, and when you respond asking whether she wants to organize a mimosa brunch and The Lucky One on Saturday or Sunday, she says she can’t go this weekend. [Record scratch.] Now, what do you do? Poll below. And yes, you can pretend the movie in question is not The Lucky One. READ FULL STORY »

Apr 13 2012 06:41 PM ET

PopWatch Confessional: How many times have you seen the same movie in the theater?

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My record is 7. The movie was Titanic. I was 13 going on 14. And although I’ve yet to see Titanic 3D (I promise I will, I’ve been sick, started a new job, and it was Easter), when I do, I won’t add it to my count. Why? Because that dilutes the purity of the number.

There are plenty of movies that, by nature of them always being in theaters, are almost ineligible for this list. As my colleague Laura Hertzfeld points out, Rocky Horror likely can’t cut it and neither would Star Wars for most. (With the caveat being if you were not alive when George Lucas first released his famous trilogy, then you can include any one theatrical run.)

With Hunger Games now in its third weekend, I’m sure there are plenty of people out there who’ve seen Katniss defy the Capitol more than once. After all, it is the type of movie that lends itself to repeat viewings — with the obsessive teenage fanbase leading the way. (I myself plan to see it again soon.)

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Apr 2 2012 09:31 PM ET

PopWatch Confessional: What obscure movie errors have driven you to distraction?

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It’s happened to all of us: You’re happily coasting along watching a movie you’re thoroughly enjoying, when up pops a glaring error that zaps you out of the movie and has you fuming to your friends as you exit the theater. At which point, you realize you were the only person to notice this so-called “error,” and all your friends think you’re a crank who totally missed the point of the movie and wish you would just shut up about it already.

The difference between you and Dr. Neil deGrasse Tyson is that the famed astrophysicist and director of the Hayden Planetarium in New York was actually able to do something about it. Upon seeing Titanic in the theater, Dr. Tyson became incensed after Kate Winslet, delirious and nearly frozen in the black Atlantic Ocean, looked up at the night sky and saw the wrong set of stars for that specific time and place. Apparently, astrophysicists can tell you exactly what the night sky looked like in the North Atlantic in the wee hours of April 15, 1912, and that’s exactly what Dr. Tyson did. He sent a letter to James Cameron. Five years later, he cornered Cameron at an event and lodged his complaint once more. A few years after that, he brought it up again at an intimate dinner party with Cameron. And now, this Wednesday, Titanic will be hitting theaters in 3-D, with no other alterations to the film except that now, Rose Dawson will be looking up at the same stars those doomed Titanic passengers saw that fateful night. (You can watch Tyson recount his entire story here.)

This is such a specific complaint, it got me thinking: What nagging movie goofs only seem to bother me? READ FULL STORY »

Mar 30 2012 05:43 PM ET

Mega Millions' $640 million jackpot: What would be your entertainment splurge?

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As I’m typing this, the estimated jackpot for tonight’s Mega Millions drawing stands at a record $640 million. In addition to conversations about how much notice colleagues would give if they were to win (I’d still freelance), I’m overhearing discussions about what people would purchase. Cars, homes, college educations for children — those are givens. Let’s get to the fun stuff! What would be your entertainment splurge(s)? Some EW picks to inspire you:

Annie Barrett: I’d convert my living room wall into a flatscreen TV (after moving into the American Idol mansion in June) and commission the Dancing With the Stars wardrobe department to design my daily costumes through 2015. The rest I’d spend on takeout.

Adam B. Vary: I would build my own private screening room in the style of the Star Trek: The Next Generation bridge, and I would be so stinking rich, NO ONE COULD JUDGE ME.

Sandra Gonzalez: I’d fund a remake of Troop Beverly Hills. But I’m not talking about an awful made-for-TV remake. This would be written by Tina Fey, feature a cameo from Shelley Long, and somehow involve Amanda Bynes, who I’d buy out of retirement. Everyone has a price.  READ FULL STORY »

Mar 12 2012 08:30 PM ET

PopWatch Confessional: Are the days of convincing friends to go see a movie that they don't actually want to see over?

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When was the last time you went to see a movie you weren’t actually interested in seeing just to spend time with someone? When was the last time someone did that for you? Here’s why I’m asking: None of my regular movie friends who were free over the weekend wanted to see John Carter, and I was too impatient to wait for the one who said she could go this week. On Sunday, I met a friend for brunch and to see Friends With Kids. Afterward, I planned to catch the next showing of John Carter. A few years ago, maybe I would’ve tried to convince her to join me. But this was an IMAX 3D showing in NYC that cost $19 — I couldn’t even ask her. Even in 2D, it would’ve cost her $13. And even then, that’s something I could only suggest it if was my birthday — the one time of year when everyone in my movie circle will cave to you and see whatever you want.  READ FULL STORY »

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