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Movie Review: Dwayne Johnson has never been better in ‘The Smashing Machine,’ but the movie dodges
By Canadian Press on October 2nd, 2025
Benny Safdie’s “The Smashing Machine” isn’t what you think it is, especially if you think it’s a movie about a British guy who thinks his typewriter is the tops. “The Smashing Machine” would seem to bear all the hallmarks of something grittier, darker and more disturbing than it is. It’s the solo directorial debut of ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Sam Smith set to honour Beverly Glenn-Copeland at LGBTQ celebration PTP Pink Awards
By Canadian Press on October 2nd, 2025
TORONTO — Global pop star Sam Smith will honour legendary singer and composer Beverly Glenn-Copeland at the second edition of the PTP Pink Awards. Organizers say Glenn-Copeland is this year’s legacy award recipient and one of six prominent LGBTQ+ figures being celebrated at Toronto’s Fairmont Royal York Hotel on Nov. 6. “Sort Of” creator Bilal ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Enfants Riches Déprimés marries military edge and bohemian ease in Paris
By Canadian Press on October 2nd, 2025
PARIS (AP) — Military regalia met bohemian ease at Enfants Riches Déprimés on Thursday, where designer Henri Alexander Levy once again proved his penchant for contradictions. A military-looking, shiny-buttoned denim coat, cut with the sharpness of uniform, was paired with ’70s heeled boots and a model’s shaggy, Woodstock hair. It was counterculture refracted through bourgeois ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Mugler reopens playbook with underground debut show in Paris
By Canadian Press on October 2nd, 2025
PARIS (AP) — The fashion industry is deep in musical chairs this Paris season, and Thursday’s spotlight swung to a Mugler debut. Miguel Castro Freitas — Portuguese, Dior-honed, and a little-known name with a precise hand — took over a house built on shock and silhouette, and chose not to whisper. He hit the volume. ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!PBS ‘Masterpiece’ series ‘The Gold’ explores Britain’s biggest heist in history
By Canadian Press on October 2nd, 2025
NEW YORK (AP) — In 1983, six thieves muscled their way into a warehouse near Heathrow Airport, expecting to find a large sum of foreign currency. They got much more than they bargained for — 26 million pounds worth of gold bars. What happened in the days and years next is the subject of PBS’ ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!By the numbers: International hot air balloon fiesta to lift off in Albuquerque
By Canadian Press on October 2nd, 2025
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) — It’s the largest ballooning event in the world and one of the most photographed spectacles, drawing hundreds of thousands of spectators over nine days to watch as pilots from around the globe take to the skies in colorful hot air balloons. The Albuquerque International Balloon Fiesta kicks off Saturday with a ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Artistic directors for Toronto, B.C. theatres among finalists for bigger Siminovitch Prize
By Canadian Press on October 2nd, 2025
TORONTO — The founder of Toronto’s Why Not Theatre and an award-winning Quebec playwright are among four finalists named for an increased Siminovitch Prize. The prize for mid-career stage artists carries a $100,000 award for its 25th edition, up from $75,000, and $10,000 for each of three runners-up, double the previous award. Finalists include Ravi ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!A postman, his family, and a chair: Van Gogh museum’s surprising reunion exhibition
By Canadian Press on October 1st, 2025
AMSTERDAM (AP) — The Van Gogh museum is bringing a scattered family back together this fall to honor a postal worker, his wife and their children who sat as models for the Dutch master at at time when he was struggling to make friends in a French town. Portraits from the late 1880s of the ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Stories of writers and wolves are finalists for the nonfiction Baillie Gifford prize
By Canadian Press on October 1st, 2025
LONDON (AP) — Literary biographies vie with explorations of extremism, slavery and European wolves on the shortlist for Britain’s leading nonfiction book prize. The six finalists announced Thursday for the 50,000 pound ($67,000) Baillie Gifford Prize include “The Boundless Deep,” a biography of poet Alfred, Lord Tennyson by Richard Holmes, Frances Wilson’s “Electric Spark,” about ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Movie Review: Bleak family drama ‘Anemone’ brings the great Daniel Day-Lewis back in from the cold
By Canadian Press on October 1st, 2025
It is often said of our greatest actors that they could compellingly recite the phone book. There’s no doubt, just to continue that thought for a moment, that Daniel Day-Lewis is one of our greatest living actors — perhaps truly the best of them all. And so the first and most important thing to say ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Jane Fonda revives Cold War-era activist group to defend free speech
By Canadian Press on October 1st, 2025
NEW YORK (AP) — Drawing upon her personal and political past, Jane Fonda has revived an activist group from the Cold War era that was backed by her father and fellow Oscar winner, Henry Fonda. Jane Fonda announced she had launched a 21st century incarnation of the Committee for the First Amendment, originally formed in ... Read More »
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