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Hot Docs names former TIFF programmer Diana Sanchez as its new executive director
By Canadian Press on March 20th, 2025
Hot Docs has named Canadian film industry veteran Diana Sanchez as its new executive director. She will take over from interim executive director Janice Dawe, who has been leading the beleaguered arts organization since its former president Marie Nelson stepped down in July after one year in the role. Hot Docs organizers say Sanchez will ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Tegan and Sara, Max Kerman, Fefe Dobson to speak at Toronto’s Depature Festival
By Canadian Press on March 20th, 2025
TORONTO — Canadian pop duo Tegan and Sara, Arkells frontman Max Kerman and pop-punk singer Fefe Dobson are set to speak at Toronto’s Departure Festival and Conference. The musicians join previously announced speakers and guests including Bryan Adams, Dallas Green, Matty Matheson, Tia Wood, Shaggy, Jully Black and Mustafa. The six-day conference will also feature ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Q&A: Japanese Breakfast’s Michelle Zauner on melancholy and her new album
By Canadian Press on March 20th, 2025
“All of my ghosts are real, all of my ghosts are my home,” Michelle Zauner of Japanese Breakfast sings in her singular way — sweetness laced with sorrow. Four years ago, the release of her Grammy-nominated album “Jubilee” dovetailed with her bestselling memoir “Crying in H Mart” — chronicling her love of Korean food and ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Comedian Lisa Gilroy to host Canadian Screen Awards, which move to streaming-only
By Canadian Press on March 20th, 2025
Edmonton native Lisa Gilroy will host the 2025 Canadian Screen Awards. Organizers of Canada’s biggest film and television awards bash say the comedian and content creator will helm a live broadcast in Toronto, marking a partial return to form after two years of pre-taped shows. However, unlike previous years, the Screen Awards will only stream ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Disney in search of perhaps its greatest sequel, a successor to Bob Iger
By Canadian Press on March 19th, 2025
Behind the red carpet movie premieres and new thrill-inducing rides for fans of its amusement parks, there is a quiet search underway to find the successor to Bob Iger, the face of Disney for most of the past two decades. Disney went through the CEO search recently, and it was nearly a disaster. Only two ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Book Review: Hannah Deitch delivers twisty thrills with debut novel, ‘Killer Potential’
By Canadian Press on March 19th, 2025
When bestselling psychological thriller writer Paula Hawkins (“The Girl on the Train,” 2015) stamps the cover of your debut novel with “A Thelma & Louise for our times,” your career is off to a fast start. The same goes for the plot pace of Hannah Deitch’s book, “Killer Potential,” which opens at a breakneck clip ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Movie Review: Even 2 De Niros aren’t quite enough to make ‘Alto Knights’ a successor to ‘Goodfellas’
By Canadian Press on March 19th, 2025
“You’re the actor!” shouts Anna Genovese at her estranged spouse, gangster Vito Genovese, in a courtroom where he’s implausibly claiming he lacks funds to support her. “The best actor in the world! Better than Clark Gable!” And we all chuckle. They probably all chuckled on set, too. Because the man playing Vito in “The Alto ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Movie Review: ‘Snow White’ is no poisoned apple but it doesn’t whistle
By Canadian Press on March 19th, 2025
Mirror mirror on the wall, what’s the fairest Disney live-action remake of them all? Wait, mirror. Hold on a second. Maybe choosing from the likes of “Alice in Wonderland” (2010), “Mulan” (2020) and “The Lion King” (2019) isn’t such a good idea. Mirror, on second thought, what’s on Netflix? Even the most devoted fans would ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Sia files for divorce from husband Daniel Bernard nearly 2 years after marriage
By Canadian Press on March 19th, 2025
LOS ANGELES (AP) — Sia filed for divorce Wednesday from second husband Daniel Bernard after two years of marriage. The Grammy-nominated Australian singer-songwriter whose legal name is Sia Furler filed the petition in Los Angeles Superior Court. It listed Tuesday as their separation date. As happens in the vast majority of California divorces, she cited ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Movie Review: Jonathan Majors plays a man on the edge in the dark drama ‘Magazine Dreams’
By Canadian Press on March 19th, 2025
There’s rage simmering inside Killian Maddox, the amateur bodybuilder portrayed by Jonathan Majors at the heart of the dark and stylized film “Magazine Dreams.” It’s a kind of “Taxi Driver” for the incel age, a harrowing portrait of untreated mental illness, violence, false idols, steroids and male loneliness. There was, from the beginning, lots to ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Curtain falls on Regina International Fringe Festival this summer: organizers
By Canadian Press on March 19th, 2025
REGINA — A storied annual tradition for Regina theatregoers is hitting the pause button. The Regina International Fringe Festival says on its website that this summer’s fringe has been cancelled but is to return next year. Board member William Hales says the curtain fell on this year’s event because the organization missed the deadline for ... Read More »
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