Tag Archives: Hannah Montana

So this is popular music in Ireland now, is it?

  By darraghdoyle | May 14, 2009 - 3:45 pm | Celebs, Music
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There are times I just despair about this country and its musical tastes. From an email I’ve just received: “Hannah Montana is on course to hit the Number One spot here in Ireland tomorrow. This lady had 3 singles from her latest movie adventure in Ireland’s top 50 singles last Friday and has clearly shown she’s unstoppable! And just in case you’ve been living under a rock, the latest craze to hit the dancefloors is none other than Hannah Montana’s ‘Hoedown Throwdown’. A combination of Line dancing and Hip Hop, this has got everyone in a whirl! (Even Jonathan Ross!!) So get those dancing shoes on and learn this latest craze! “ I thought we had seen the last of all this with ‘classics’ like Rednex’s Cotton Eye Joe, Step’s 5,6,7,8 and the like. Obviously not. But of course look at the marketing machine, the teen appeal, the incredible lyrics, … There’s more →

Movie News 15/04/09

  By Darren Byrne | April 15, 2009 - 11:17 am | In The News, Movies & TV, The Culch
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How to bleed a franchise dry…the X-Men franchise has seen three movies go on release to accumulate somewhere in the region of $1,050,000,000 and this will only increase with next month’s Wolverine. The origin story of Magneto is also in the works and now it seems studio execs are trying to light a fire underneath X-Men:The First Class, the story of Charles Xavier’s first set of mutant students. I’m sure this will spark its own franchise spin. Overkill much? Richard Jenkins (the father from Six Feet Under) and Julia Roberts will star in Eat, Pray, Love, centering on a married woman who embarks on a journey of self-discovery after realizing that she’s not living the life she wants. The lovely Kristen Bell (Forgetting Sarah Marshall, Heroes and the voice of Gossip Girl) has been cast in Disney’s You Again, as a girl who is shocked to find out her brother … There’s more →