A new mural by the elusive British street artist Banksy showing a judge beating an unarmed protester with a gavel will be removed from a wall outside one of London’s most iconic courts, authorities...

Dwayne (The Rock) Johnson says his experiences both in and out of the ring were ‘everything’ in portraying mixed martial arts fighter Mark Kerr in The Smashing Machine, which had its North American premiere...

Over 2,000 film industry workers — including big names like Javier Bardem, Aimee Lou Wood and Mark Ruffalo — have signed a pledge promising not to work with film institutions or governments that are...

For a few weeks in 2005, Nova Scotia native J.D. Fortune was living in his car in Toronto with his pug, Presley. Listening to the radio, Fortune, then 31, heard an ad talking about auditions...

Rental Family both begins and ends with a funeral while throwing a story of one in the middle. One is real, one is fake. And one shows why all-important moments are actually a mixture of both....

Director Rian Johnson credits Toronto International Film Festival fans as a reason why he’s picked the festival for the world-wide premiere of his Knives Out franchise three times in a row....

The first actor to ever win two consecutive Oscars didn’t exactly break the mould to do so. Spencer Tracy snagged his first trophy for the 1937 sleeper hit Captains Courageous — a Rudyard Kipling adaptation...

Sydney Sweeney was among the Hollywood stars who arrived early on day two of the Toronto International Film Festival Friday, ahead of the world premiere of David Michôd’s biographical sports drama Christy, starring Sweeney as pioneering women’s...

Pippi Longstocking, IKEA and the Nobel Prize are among 100 works, brands and ideas deemed to define what it means to be Swedish, according to a cultural heritage list presented to the government on Tuesday....

Justin Bieber fans didn’t have to wait long for a followup to his surprise summer album Swag — he’s dropping Swag II tonight.  The Canadian music superstar revealed in a series of posts on his Instagram...

The 50th Toronto International Film Festival kicks off today with the world premiere of John Candy: I Like Me, a documentary celebrating the late Canadian comedian. Candy’s family will walk the red carpet alongside the...

What’s the most important thing you need to know about Chloe Malle, the woman taking over from legendary Vogue editor in chief Anna Wintour? Is it that she’s a “proud nepo baby” (her words), the child of...

Kevin Costner on Tuesday remembered Canadian actor Graham Greene as a “master at work and a wonderful human being,” in a social media post depicting one of their scenes together in 1990’s Dances With...

Live from New York, Canadian comic Veronika Slowikowska will soon grace the stage of NBC’s venerable sketch comedy show on Saturday nights starting this fall. Slowikowska, from Barrie, Ont., will be among five new cast...

Iron your red carpet outfits and dig out your autograph books; the Toronto International Film Festival is back. The 50th iteration of “the people’s festival” is due to kick off on Thursday, Sept. 4, with...

The Tony Award-winning musical that blends hip-hop and American history runs until Sept. 7 at Place des Arts....

“The work goes on!” chant two towheaded ten-year-olds, testing out their new mantra while transitioning from yet another 10K into even more windsprints.  Of course, this is strange. And not only because their self-improvement...

When Sandi Leung visited a Toronto International Film Festival red carpet for the first time in 2015, she realized she could walk up to almost any part of the red carpet and — if...

Ahead of Saturday Night Live’s upcoming 51st season, some major shakeups are coming to the cast. Michael Longfellow, Devon Walker and Emil Wakim all announced their departures from the show on social media this...

After nearly 40 years on air, the iconic kids TV network Family Channel — home to favourites like Life With Derek, The Next Step and Yo Gabba Gabba! — is set to shut down in...

British actor Micheal Ward was granted bail Thursday after appearing at a central London court to face charges of rape and sexual assault. The 27-year-old, who starred as Jamie in the Netflix crime drama Top...

Iranian Canadian filmmaker Alireza Khatami’s psychological thriller, inspired by his own family trauma, is Canada’s submission for consideration at the Academy Awards. He just hopes his relatives don’t see the film. Telefilm Canada announced on...

Toronto’s Maggie Kang may be sitting on the hottest movie of the year, which as of Tuesday earned 236 million views — more streams than any other Netflix film ever. And she may have just launched that juggernaut...

With summer holidays winding down, now is a great time to emphasize the fun that can be found between the pages of a book.  To ease them into the school year — and continue to foster...

Here comes the last great American dynasty. It’s a love story, baby, and she said yes. He belongs with her. Apologies, the lyric opportunities are endless and our heads are spinning because pop superstar...

Lil Nas X was charged Monday with four felonies after police say he charged at them when they confronted him for walking naked down a Los Angeles street last week, prosecutors announced.  The musician,...

Of course when talking about Oasis’s unlikely return to Toronto, the first thing you have to consider is the venue. Or rather, getting into and out of that venue: Rogers Stadium, the unwieldy, dubiously...

Gryffin, a DJ performing in Las Vegas tells The National about the moment he thought Justin Bieber joined him on stage to perform during his set, but later learned he was an impersonator....

The Sunday MagazineHow stadium concerts changed live music, from The Beatles to Taylor Swift If Mary Grace Bova could choose to relive just one day in her life, she wouldn’t hesitate for a second....

Sarah McLachlan wasn’t about to skip her daughter’s high school graduation for a splashy gig in Ibiza with American DJ John Summit. But it’s a suggestion the singer-songwriter says her 18-year-old made earlier this...

Oasis fans are primed for two upcoming concerts in Toronto, but residents and ticket holders are concerned about noise and traffic around Rogers Stadium....

Brent Hinds, the former singer-guitarist for the Grammy-winning heavy metal band Mastodon, has died in a motorcycle accident in Atlanta, the band and authorities said. He was 51. Hinds was killed while riding a...

Rapper Lil Nas X was arrested and briefly taken to a hospital for a suspected overdose on Thursday after Los Angeles police say he charged at officers responding to a report of a naked...

The death of a French streamer during a days-long broadcast on the platform Kick, in which he’d allegedly been harmed and humiliated for viewers’ entertainment, has sparked mass outrage and investigation by authorities. Raphael...

When you look at the numbers, they can be difficult to believe. Not only the first non-Hollywood film to gross over $1 billion US, but one that eventually went on to earn over $2.2...

CEO of the Toronto International Film Festival, Cameron Bailey, apologized for any hurt caused by the festival’s decision to pull and then reinvite a film about the Oct. 7 attacks by Hamas. “I want to...

In 2021, a TikTok of Canadian rapper bbno$ raising his eyebrows to the beat of his single Edamame started gaining traction — and eventually changed the course of his career. The platform’s Canadian team suggested...

Actor Aubrey Plaza appeared on Parks and Recreation co-star Amy Poehler’s podcast Good Hang on Tuesday, opening up about the death of her husband Jeff Baena. Baena, a director and writer behind indie successes ranging from absurdist...

What the skibidi is happening to the English language? “Skibidi,” pronounced SKI-bih-dee, is one of the slang terms popularized by social media that are among more than 6,000 additions this year to the Cambridge...

A woman known as the “Ketamine Queen,” charged with selling Matthew Perry the drug that killed him, agreed to plead guilty Monday. Jasveen Sangha becomes the fifth and final defendant charged in the overdose...

A Radio-Canada investigation that included looking into a civil lawsuit indicates members of Norval Morrisseau’s family and the man representing the late Indigenous artist’s estate — who for years have presented themselves as the main victims...

Terence Stamp, the British actor who often portrayed complex villains, including General Zod in the early Superman films, has died. He was 87. His death on Sunday was disclosed in a death notice published online....

The Naked Gun. 28 Days Later. I Know What You Did Last Summer. Jurassic Park. Thought these are all titles from 2025, you could be forgiven for thinking they came from Moviefone.  This year’s summer blockbuster...

Formula One romance books are having a moment, capitalizing on a new generation of motorsport fans. (Berkley, Avon Books, Simon & Schuster) When Nova Scotian writer Amy James first attended the Formula One (F1)...

Chantle Jovellanos knows where all 22 of her closest friends and family members are at any given time, with the help of Apple’s Find My function. The 18-year-old from Toronto checks it when she’s on her...

KPop Demon Hunters is big in every way possible — it’s visually stunning, it’s wildly emotional, and it’s insanely popular. The movie follows K-Pop girl group Huntrix, a fictional trio of superheroes, as they use the...

Why Spike Lee made Highest 2 Lowest is decidedly unclear. Sure, there’s the fact that he’s a celebrated writer and director with no signs of slowing down — when presented with the opportunity, why...

The Toronto International Film Festival says a documentary about the Hamas attacks in Israel on Oct. 7, 2023, is now an official selection and will screen at the festival after it was initially disinvited....

South Korea’s Supreme Court has rejected a 30-million won ($21,600 US) damage claim by an American composer who accused a South Korean kids content company of plagiarizing his version of Baby Shark, ending a six-year...

Taylor Swift has unveiled the track list and release date for her 12th studio album, The Life of a Showgirl. It will arrive Oct. 3, she revealed Wednesday. Swift, Max Martin and Shellback are the...

A pop culture moment has Saskatchewan in the spotlight, and now Chappell Roan has promised to perform in the province.  “I’ve never been there, but I promise I will perform there one day,” Roan...

Madonna and U2 have each shone attention on the humanitarian crisis in Gaza, among the biggest music stars to do so since the war in the Palestinian enclave began in late 2023 after Hamas’s...

Superstar Taylor Swift on Tuesday announced her 12th studio album, The Life of a Showgirl. Swift, who has won 14 Grammys, including an unprecedented four trophies for album of the year, announced the album in a podcast...

Adam Davidson-Harden is admittedly a latecomer to appreciating William Shakespeare, but the Ontario high school teacher now likens studying the Bard to “lifting weights, for language.” He said he worries that mental muscles aren’t...

Jeremy Guenette was sitting in an Idaho parking lot waiting for his kids to finish back-to-school shopping two years ago, when he noticed business was booming at a nearby truck mixing colas, cream and...

Forget Jet2holidays, Labubu or The Rizzler. The new internet fad is the recession. Specifically, recession indicators. Sure there are the logical ones: the projected economic impacts of Trump’s tariffs, jobs reports or production levels....

There were slightly more movie characters with disabilities on screen in 2024, according to a new report, but experts and advocates say that figure — and the quality of representation — are still sorely lacking.   Last year,...

Walt Disney has resolved a legal dispute with actor Gina Carano over her firing from the Star Wars streaming TV series The Mandalorian, a spokesperson for Disney unit Lucasfilm said on Thursday. Disney removed Carano from The Mandalorian in 2021...

As It HappensPrecious 1st-edition of The Hobbit found amid reference books and children’s tomes In a find that would be worthy of a place among Smaug’s pile of gold and jewels underneath the Lonely...

CBC Books has announced this year’s list of writers to watch. Here are 22 Canadian writers on the rise in 2025. Rose Sutherland Rose Sutherland is the author of A Sweet Sting of Salt. (Random House...

When Abhi Swaminathan opened up a mobile cooking game called Sofra, his first reaction was to be amused.  He thought it looked extremely similar to his own narrative cooking game, Venba — with a...

A shattered statue, scattered amber, smoke plumes, a hint of defiance, a release date and a director’s name — the theatrical teaser and accompanying poster for Christopher Nolan’s The Odyssey was all it took for the...

The Tragically Hip is doing its bit to help support the Canadian women’s rugby team ahead of this month’s World Cup in England. The iconic Canadian band is selling a limited-edition T-shirt with proceeds...

Francis Ford Coppola, the acclaimed American director of The Godfather movies and Apocalypse Now, underwent a non-emergency medical procedure by appointment at a hospital in Rome and is doing fine, he and a U.S.-based representative said...

Organizers at the Juno Awards, Canada’s biggest music awards show, say they plan to introduce Latin music recording of the year at the 2026 edition. The new category will recognize Canadian musicians across all...

Day 6How to enjoy a movie in the era of strategic spoilers The excitement was high when Marvel Studios‘ Fantastic Four: First Steps stormed into theatres in July.  Many fans were eager to see...

Loni Anderson, who played a struggling radio station’s empowered receptionist on the hit TV comedy WKRP in Cincinnati, died Sunday — just days before her 80th birthday. Anderson died at a Los Angeles hospital following...

Entertainment The Metropolitan Police force said officers and paramedics responded to reports of an injured person just before 10:30 p.m. local time on Saturday night. It said a man in his 40s was found...

YouTube-ification? Is that a thing? It appears to be what’s happening now with Netflix and other streaming services.  Some of YouTube’s hottest creators are landing lucrative deals to bring their shows to even wider audiences...

The Corporation for Public Broadcasting (CPB), a cornerstone of U.S. culture for three generations, announced Friday it’s taking steps toward its own closure after Congress defunded it. It would mark the end of a nearly...

A battle-weary warrior, seeking peace in obscurity. A tyrannical, war-mongering ex-leader pulling him out of self-imposed banishment to fight once again. A prophecy; a calling. A sweeping, blood-drenched epic in which the ensuing military conflict...

American singer Justin Timberlake says he has been diagnosed with Lyme disease and is coping with health issues that have affected him physically and mentally. “Living with this can be relentlessly debilitating,” he said in a lengthy...

Video game developers are speaking out after two popular PC games stores made it harder — even impossible — to purchase thousands of games and other digital artworks, as a result of pressure exerted by an Australian...

There is a joke in Liam Neeson’s The Naked Gun. Of course, there is more than one. When it comes to jokes, the extremely late reboot of Leslie Nielsen’s detective comedy series is about...

Revered Hollywood director Christopher Nolan’s next summer blockbuster won’t hit theatres until July 17, 2026, and it’s already setting precedents — and courting controversy.  The man behind box office hits like Oppenheimer and Inception is currently...

First he came for late-night TV, then a daytime talk show and a crude cartoon. U.S. President Donald Trump and his administration are fighting battles on all fronts when it comes to mockery and...

Had you heard of Sean Feucht before this month? If you hadn’t, you likely have now. The U.S.-based Christian musician wasn’t exactly a household name or selling out the biggest concert venues in this country, but his...

 A deep library of MuchMusic’s celebrity interviews has found a new home on YouTube. Bell Media says Much Rewind launched last week as the official public archive of pop-culture moments that once aired on...

Unlike Taylor Swift’s meteorite-like crash landing in the sweaty city of Toronto, there were no friendship bead-wearing police horses at The Weeknd’s first showing in the Six. Instead, a more subdued air surrounded Rogers...

Toronto’s very own Starboy has been awarded a key to the city ahead of his highly anticipated concerts at Rogers Centre.  Abel Tesfaye, a.k.a. the Weeknd, received the honour from Toronto Mayor Olivia Chow...

A doctor pleaded guilty Wednesday to giving Matthew Perry ketamine in the month leading up to the Friends star’s overdose death. Dr. Salvador Plasencia became the fourth of the five people charged in connection with...

Hulk Hogan, who helped lead professional wrestling’s rise in popularity in the 1980s and beyond, has died, Florida police and World Wrestling Entertainment said Thursday. He was 71. “WWE is saddened to learn WWE...

Hark, do you hear it? It’s faint. Barely a whisper over the non-stop global catastrophes, two decades of unprecedented times, multiple economic downturns, robots, the realization we should already be saving for retirement, random joint...

There was a show of late-night solidarity on Monday night as The Late Show host Stephen Colbert’s comrades rallied behind him after CBS said it was cancelling his program in 2026.  Thursday’s announcement was met with shock as...

Canadian rocker Matthew Good has cut upcoming U.S. shows from his summer tour, saying he can’t support government policies and political divisions south of the border and that he’s unlikely to perform in the country...

Malcolm-Jamal Warner, best known for playing Bill Cosby’s son on the hit NBC sitcom The Cosby Show, has died at the age of 54 in an accidental drowning while on holiday with his family in Central...

Films starring Sydney Sweeney, Angelina Jolie and Aziz Ansari will premiere at the 50th Toronto International Film Festival, festival organizers announced Monday. TIFF laid out the selections to its galas and special presentations programs,...

Famed Indigenous artist Norval Morrisseau was browsing a Vancouver gallery with his longtime friend Cory Dingle around 1993 when a painting stopped them in their tracks. The pair asked who created it. The answer? “Norval Morrisseau.” The...

The cancellation next year of The Late Show with Stephen Colbert, announced by the host on Thursday night’s broadcast, is resonating as the most significant news in the television landscape in some time.  The reactions on...

Jaelem Bhate remembers the moment he realized music wouldn’t be an easy path. A number of years ago, he switched from pursuing a science degree to studying music academically, transferring to the University of...

Canada’s artificial intelligence minister is keeping a close watch on court cases in Canada and the U.S. to determine next steps for Ottawa’s regulatory approach to AI.  Some AI companies have claimed early wins south of...

Chanting for the death of the Israel Defence Forces (IDF). Waving a Hezbollah flag at a concert. Cheering for Hamas. Calling on fans in the U.K. to “kill your local MP.” These are a few...

Is Eddington a western? To believe writer/director Ari Aster, of course it is. Despite the fact that the Joaquin Phoenix-led feature is from the twisted mind that brought you Midsommar, Hereditary and Beau Is...

CBS is axing The Late Show With Stephen Colbert in May 2026, the host told an audience at a taping on Thursday. The announcement came two days after Colbert spoke out against Paramount Global, the parent...

Connie Francis, the wholesome pop star of the 1950s and ’60s whose hits include Pretty Little Baby, has died at 87. Her death was announced Thursday by her friend and publicist Ron Roberts, who did...

A massive fire at Belgium’s Tomorrowland music festival site “severely damaged” the main stage on Wednesday, two days before the event was due to start. Flames engulfed the stage in the town of Boom, north of Brussels, igniting...

The lead actors, along with an expected release date, were announced Wednesday for the live-action film of the popular Nintendo game,The Legend of Zelda.  The announcement from Shigeru Miyamoto, Nintendo’s representative director and renowned video game designer, was...

Andrea Gibson, a celebrated poet and performance artist who through their verse explored gender identity, politics and their experience with terminal ovarian cancer, died Monday at age 49. Gibson’s death was announced on social...

Canadian Seth Rogen nabbed three major nominations as the 77th Primetime Emmy Award nominations were announced in Los Angeles on Tuesday. Rogen created the Apple TV+ comedy The Studio, which was among the nominees for...

Martin Cruz Smith, the bestselling mystery novelist who engaged readers for decades with Gorky Park and other thrillers featuring Moscow investigator Arkady Renko, has died at age 82. Smith died Friday at a senior living...

Spoiler alert: This article includes details from the series finale of the reality series Love Island USA. Love Island USA ended a tumultuous summer full of explosive breakups and shock exits with its season finale...

Musicians are calling for regulations and finding creative ways to fight back as AI “bands” climb the charts on streaming platforms, soaking up already meagre royalty payments. But as a major musicians’ union works for legal...

Love Island USA Season 7 has pulled in a huge audience, but beyond the villa, contestants and their families have faced a wave of hate online, prompting a warning from the production to stop...

Coldplay frontman Chris Martin says he didn’t mean to insult Toronto’s newest concert venue when he called it a “weird stadium in the middle of nowhere.” Martin issued the clarification Friday during the third...

Canadian sports fans are tearing into Sportsnet after they learned its streaming service will be hiking prices by double digits before the next hockey season.  Sportsnet, which is owned by Rogers Sports & Media, announced in an...

A new Justin Bieber album appears to be on the way.  The Canadian pop star posted several posters of billboards in various cities on his Instagram Thursday, showing what looks like the artwork and...

Paul McCartney has a ticket to ride to Hamilton, where he’s taking his Got Back tour in November. The Beatles rocker announced a new North American leg of his tour on Thursday.  He’ll play...

Sean (Diddy) Combs will be sentenced in his federal criminal case on Oct. 3, a judge said Tuesday, after probation officials rejected the defence and prosecution’s plan to move the date up by about two...

Superman is in trouble. I mean, that is if we are to take the introductory title cards to the new Superman instalment seriously. Because to trust them, he’s facing a raft of problems.  First...

TikTok says it’s pulling out as a sponsor of several Canadian arts institutions, including the Juno Awards and the Toronto International Film Festival, as it prepares to comply with a federal order to shut down operations in...

After nearly three decades, Pearl Jam’s drummer Matt Cameron says he is stepping down from the band. “Much love and respect to Jeff [Ament], Ed [Vedder], Mike [McCready] and Stone [Gossard] for inviting me...

Oasis ended a 16-year hiatus on Friday with a punchy, powerful trip through one of Britpop’s greatest songbooks, kicking off a reunion tour in Cardiff, Wales, to a crowd ecstatic for the band’s 1990s...

Coldplay fans are gearing up to watch the band perform this week in Toronto, but some say they are concerned after mixed reviews about the concert’s venue, Rogers Stadium. The new 50,000-seat open-air venue in north Toronto...

A Canadian who duped journalists in an elaborate AI music hoax says he apologizes to anyone hurt by his experiment but that it’s been “too fascinating” to turn away from. A man using the pseudonym Andrew...

Julian McMahon, an Australia-born actor who appeared in two Fantastic Four films and TV shows such as Charmed, Nip/Tuck and Profiler, has died, his wife said in a statement. McMahon, 56, died peacefully this week after...

When Beverly Glenn-Copeland and his partner Elizabeth first conceived of a new children’s TV show a few years ago, they set out to teach kids about caring for the planet, the importance of community...

Michael Madsen, whose menacing characters in Reservoir Dogs and Kill Bill made him a standout in Quentin Tarantino’s films, has died. He was 67. Madsen was found unresponsive in his home in Malibu, Calif., on Thursday morning and...

As It Happens5:44What is the essence of cool? Study narrows it down to 6 key traits Cool is cool, no matter where you are in the world. That’s the conclusion of a new study...

After a landmark case spanning weeks of witness testimony and arguments, rap mogul and entrepreneur Sean (Diddy) Combs got his verdict. After returning Wednesday morning, the jury announced their findings: Combs was guilty of two...

Denis Villeneuve is going from Dune to Bond. AmazonMGM announced Wednesday that the Canadian will direct the next James Bond movie. The untitled film will be the first since the studio took creative reins of the...

Their reunion? It’s smooth like butter. The K-pop septet BTS will return in spring 2026 with a new album and world tour. Members Jin, RM, V, Jimin, J-Hope, Jung Kook and Suga made the...

A jury returned Tuesday to deliberate for a second day at hip-hop mogul Sean (Diddy) Combs’s federal racketeering and sex trafficking trial. Jurors were back behind closed doors weighing whether prosecutors proved the charges at...

WARNING: This story contains allegations of ​​​sexual violence and may affect those who have experienced​ it or know someone affected by it. Jury deliberations got underway on Monday in Sean “Diddy” Combs’s federal sex...

The BBC said Monday it should have pulled a livestream of rap duo Bob Vylan’s performance at the Glastonbury  Festival, which saw the group leading crowds of music fans in chants calling for “death”...

A rom-com about a love triangle set in Montreal’s music scene is among the films making their world premieres at the 50th edition of the Toronto International Film Festival. Mile End Kicks, from Toronto...

As It Happens6:29A music librarian brought Stephen Sondheim to tears — and got him to bequeath his life’s work Mark Horowitz is quite proud that he made Stephen Sondheim cry. He’s even more proud...

Cody Lightning is far from alone. First of all, the Edmonton-based creator is surrounded by fellow community members on the set of Smudge the Blades, his upcoming film about hockey, growing up and Indigenous...

Why did Pixar’s Elio put up the worst numbers in the studio’s history in its opening weekend? The reasons professionals give for the sci-fi family movie’s paltry $35 million US global box-office earning vary. But if you ask the internet, there’s...

Anna Wintour is stepping down as Vogue editor-in-chief but will retain editorial control over the storied magazine. The longtime Vogue powerhouse told staff Thursday she’s seeking a head of editorial content to handle more...

Where’s the love? Love Island USA — currently in its seventh season and the most-watched streaming reality show in the U.S. — has issued a rare and serious warning to its many fans that harassing...

Lalo Schifrin, the composer who wrote the endlessly catchy theme for Mission: Impossible and more than 100 other arrangements for film and television, died Thursday. He was 93. Schifrin’s sons, William and Ryan, confirmed his...

The Current12:28Everyone wants a Labubu! …a what? What if buying a toy felt like playing the lottery? For Labubu fans, blind box products turn shopping into a game of chance — and thrill.  Sold...

Crack open a Duff beer and pour one out for Marge Simpson, the blue-haired, raspy-voiced matriarch of The Simpsons who has left behind her beloved but sometimes dysfunctional family.  Don’t fire off the emails...

Nathan Maharaj, left, and Christine Estima make up the The Next Chapter’s summer book panel for 2025. (Nathan Maharaj, Panther Sohi) The Next Chapter25:13What books to bring on your trip this summer Whether your...

WARNING: This story contains allegations of ​​​sexual violence and may affect those who have experienced​ it or know someone affected by it. Prosecutors in the sex trafficking and racketeering conspiracy trial of hip hop mogul Sean (Diddy)...

When his lawyer’s name flashed on his phone early last month, Michael Murray ducked out to answer the call — the physician was in the middle of seeing patients at his medical clinic in Hawaii, but...

Summers have never been quite the same since June 20, 1975, and it’s all thanks to a “mindless eating machine” that terrorized moviegoers and beachgoers alike. That was the day Jaws hit theatres, ushering in the...

Superman returns to the big screen this summer, as DC Studios tries to reinvigorate the film fortunes of its iconic do-gooder. But that’s not an easy task, despite studio investment of at least $225...

If you were online last week, you probably saw footage from the No Kings protests. The gigantic demonstration against U.S. President Donald Trump took place across the United States and portions of Canada — but was...

Suga, a rapper and songwriter in the global K-pop sensation BTS, has been discharged from South Korea’s mandatory military service, marking the official return of all seven members from their enlistment duties.   The label...

Grammy-winning singer Chris Brown pleaded not guilty Friday to a charge related to the serious beating of a music producer with a bottle in a London nightclub in 2023. Wearing a blue suit, white shirt and...

If you’re among the millions who have been riveted by America’s Sweethearts, Netflix’s docuseries about the Dallas Cowboys cheerleaders, then you already know that the 36 women who make the squad are nothing less than...

As a film, Elio is gorgeous. In short, it’s a somehow equal parts miraculous and original wonder — so good it feels a bit out of place among a summer of adaptations, remakes, sequels and remakes of adaptations of...

TV chef Anne Burrell, who coached culinary fumblers through hundreds of episodes of Worst Cooks in America, died Tuesday at her New York home. She was 55. The Food Network, where Burrell began her two-decade...

An actor who worked on the Tyler Perry-created TV drama The Oval has filed a lawsuit alleging Perry leveraged his industry power to repeatedly sexually assault and harass him while keeping him quiet. The lawsuit...

Watching Brad Pitt’s new racing movie, F1 The Movie, I am a bit like a Labrador at the beach.  Because as I try to follow the racing rules, overdone plot beats and famous faces, I...

Shianne Brown still remembers her disbelief when she heard, half a world away, that Toronto mayor Rob Ford had been caught on video smoking crack cocaine. “What the hell is happening in Toronto? That’s...

A doctor charged with giving Matthew Perry ketamine in the months leading up to the Friends star’s overdose death has agreed to plead guilty, a plea agreement filed Monday shows. Dr. Salvador Plasencia has agreed...

Khaby Lame, the world’s most popular TikTok personality with millions of followers, has left the U.S. after being detained by immigration agents in Las Vegas for allegedly overstaying his visa. The Senegalese-Italian influencer, whose...

Day 610:09Nintendo Switch 2 promises to be an improvement on the bestselling original console, but it’ll cost you At first glance, Nintendo’s new Switch 2 looks a lot like the last one — a...

Kendrick Lamar stepped onto Drake’s turf Thursday, playing his first concert in Toronto since the rift between the music superstars went into hyperdrive last year. For the most part, the Los Angeles rapper didn’t fan...

YouTube, the world’s largest video platform, appears to have changed its moderation policies to allow more content that violates its own rules to remain online. The change happened quietly in December, according to The...

Bob Ezrin’s resumé is as impressive as it is diverse. Over his five-decade career, the legendary Canadian music producer has worked with dozens of artists, from Alice Cooper and Jane’s Addiction to Taylor Swift...

This is not a drill, movie fans! A Spaceballs sequel is in the works and set for release in 2027 — with three of its original stars reprising their roles in the cult classic 40 years...

The Life of Chuck is a film told in reverse.  This is not an especially novel conceit — we are most of us years past the days of sitting in friends’ basements, staring in...

Brian Wilson, whose virtuoso vocal and musical arrangements led the Beach Boys to commercial and critical success, making them one of America’s most influential bands, has died.   The death of Wilson, who would have...

Former movie mogul Harvey Weinstein was convicted in Manhattan on Wednesday of one of the top charges in his sex crimes retrial but acquitted of another, and jurors were as yet unable to reach...

Disney and Universal have filed a copyright lawsuit against popular artificial intelligence image-generator Midjourney, marking the first time major Hollywood companies have entered the legal battle over generative AI. Filed in federal district court...

There are legitimate reasons to remake a movie. There are the remakes of old, unnoticed hidden gems — like 1999’s Scarface or 2021’s West Side Story — reinterpreted for modern audiences. There are the re-imaginings of non-English-language fare...

The union for Hollywood’s video game performers has reached a tentative contract with several video game companies, which may bring an end to an almost year-long strike tied to the use of artificial intelligence. Members...

A New York judge has tossed out Justin Baldoni’s $400-million US defamation lawsuit against Blake Lively, her husband Ryan Reynolds and their publicist, while also dismissing a $250-million US defamation suit against the New York Times for reporting...

Sylvester Stewart, who as leader of Sly and the Family Stone served up an intoxicating alchemy of soul, rock and R&B to pave the way for funk music’s heyday, has died. He was 82...

Maybe Happy Ending, a rom-com musical about androids that crackles with humanity, had a definite happy ending at Sunday’s Tony Awards. It won best new musical on a night when Kara Young made history as...

The B.C. Lions have kicked off their CFL season with a concert by legendary rapper Snoop Dogg. The 35-minute performance came before the Lions hosted the Edmonton Elks in their first game of the season. Snoop Dogg performed several...

David Beckham, the former England soccer captain who has been an ambassador for the UN children’s fund for two decades, is to receive a knighthood in next week’s honours list from King Charles III, according...

Two separate times in David Middel’s horror film The Ritual, title cards pop up declaring that you are watching the most well-documented case of demonic possession in history. A final message then asserts that “debate...

Morten Harket, the lead singer of Norwegian band A-ha, whose Take On Me track remains one of the most popular songs from the 1980s, said on Wednesday that he had been diagnosed with Parkinson’s disease. In a statement...

Heather Hiscox will say good morning to loyal CBC News viewers for the last time this fall, as she steps away from the anchor desk after 20 years as host of CBC Morning Live...

The 50th Toronto International Film Festival (TIFF) is set to open with a documentary celebrating Canadian comedy legend John Candy. John Candy: I Like Me, directed by Colin Hanks and produced by Ryan Reynolds,...

WARNING: This story contains significant spoilers for both the original Lilo & Stitch and its remake. When it comes to dollars and cents, Disney’s Lilo &Stitch live-action remake hasn’t hit any speed-bumps. In fact, it’s more like...

WARNING: This article may affect those who have experienced​ ​​​sexual violence or know someone affected by it. Jurors will soon weigh the case against former movie studio boss Harvey Weinstein, who is standing trial for...

What’s your favourite bit of CanCon? Maybe Schitt’s Creek, which aired on CBC but also streamed on Netflix, comes to mind. Perhaps some iteration of Anne of Green Gables. Or maybe a classic David Cronenberg...

Jonathan Joss, an actor best known for his voice work on the animated television series King of the Hill, as well as a role on Parks and Recreation, was fatally shot near his Texas home, authorities said...

The divisive, little-seen yet still-controversial Donald Trump biopic The Apprentice managed to grab the brass ring on Sunday, taking home the top award of best motion picture at the final night of the Canadian...

Cost of Living4:21Concert tickets are so pricey. you can now get them insured Ariana Rendon says Kendrick Lamar is one of her favourite rappers of all time. So when he was playing in New...

Loretta Swit, who won two Emmy Awards playing Major Margaret Houlihan, the demanding head nurse of a behind-the-lines surgical unit during the Korean War on the hit TV series MASH, has died. She was 87....

As It Happens6:16Mississippi town at heart of Sinners hosts public screening with Ryan Coogler The Mississippi town of Clarksdale is, in many ways, the heart and soul of the movie Sinners.  But, until this...

Actor and comedian Russell Brand pleaded not guilty in a London court Friday to rape and sexual assault charges involving four women dating back more than 25 years. Brand, who turns 50 next week,...

The rumour mill is both shaken and stirred at the prospect of the next James Bond star being inadvertently — maybe — leaked.  Speculation has been swirling online in recent days that British actor...

If there’s one thing you can expect from a dystopian series like The Handmaid’s Tale it’s that it won’t wrap up neatly with a pretty bow.  The show, based on Canadian author Margaret Atwood’s acclaimed 1985 novel and shot...

Rhode, Hailey Bieber’s makeup and skincare brand, is being snapped up by Elf Beauty for about $1 billion US, giving the budget cosmetic retailer access to a celebrity-endorsed product line that has become hugely...

Canadian artist and naturalist Robert Bateman celebrated his 95th birthday on May 24 — and while many would have considered retirement long ago, slowing down hasn’t crossed his mind.  Bateman is still showing his...

WARNING: This story contains allegations of ​​​sexual violence and may affect those who have experienced​ it or know someone affected by it. A former top aide to Sean (Diddy) Combs testified Tuesday at his sex trafficking trial that...

Phil Robertson, who turned his small duck-calling interest in northern Louisiana into a big business and was the head of the family featured on the reality show Duck Dynasty, died Sunday, according to his family....

The Next Chapter24:12Arkells’ Max Kerman isn’t afraid to be a try-hard For two decades, the Canadian rock band Arkells have been making music, winning Junos and touring the globe. Now, lead singer Max Kerman...

A British judge ordered Grammy-winning singer Chris Brown released on 5-million-pound ($9.3 million Cdn) bail on Wednesday while facing allegations he beat and seriously injured a music producer with a bottle in a London nightclub...

Like a massive, skulking sandworm out of Frank Herbert’s Dune, there exists an inescapable maw where all in its destructive path — from fish struggling to flee to crabs tangled up in the nets —...

When Rob Worsoff recently dusted off an old idea he had for a reality television show about people on the path to United States citizenship, he had no idea of what he was letting...

Iranian dissident filmmaker Jafar Panahi’s revenge thriller It Was Just an Accident  won the Palme d’Or at the Cannes Film Festival on Saturday, handing the festival’s top prize to a director who had been...

U.S. singer-songwriter and pianist Billy Joel said Friday he is cancelling all his scheduled concerts — including a stop in Toronto — after he was recently diagnosed with normal pressure hydrocephalus, a brain disorder. The 76-year-old singer...

A Paris court on Friday found the ringleader and seven other people guilty in the robbery of Kim Kardashian at her residence in the French capital in 2016. But none of them will face...

In deciding whether 2002’s Lilo & Stitch or the new CGI-aided remake might be more enjoyable to sit down and watch, we surprisingly have a sort of case study to refer back to.  It...

WARNING: This story contains allegations of ​​​sexual violence and may affect those who have experienced​ it or know someone affected by it. Rapper Kid Cudi testified Thursday that Sean (Diddy) Combs broke into his Hollywood Hills home in 2011...

Indian author Banu Mushtaq and translator Deepa Bhasthi won the International Booker Prize for fiction for Heart Lamp, a collection of 12 short stories written over a period of more than 30 years and which...

The Edmonton Oilers’ NHL reign in the 1980s will be the subject of a new docuseries from Ryan Reynolds’s production house Maximum Effort. Producers say The Great Ones will offer “an unprecedented look at the...

George Wendt, the actor known for his portrayal of beer-loving Norm Peterson on the hit NBC sitcom Cheers, has died at the age of 76.  Wendt’s family confirmed the news of his death, saying he...

The federal broadcast regulator is considering whether it should include a “cultural element” in its new definition of Canadian content. The Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission (CRTC) is holding a public hearing from May 14-27...

WARNING: This story contains allegations of ​​​sexual violence and may affect those who have experienced​ it or know someone affected by it. Singer Dawn Richard told jurors at the Sean (Diddy) Combs sex trafficking trial on Monday that...