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Lady Gaga will perform during the MTV Video Music Awards. Here’s everything to know about the show
By Canadian Press on August 30th, 2025
LOS ANGELES (AP) — Lady Gaga is extending her dominance of this year’s MTV Video Music Awards and has been added as a performer, show organizers announced Saturday. The Grammy-award winning musician leads this year’s VMA nominations with 12 nods, including artist of the year and best album for “Mayhem,” which was released earlier this ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Guillermo del Toro’s ‘Frankenstein’ premieres at Venice with Oscar Isaac and Jacob Elordi
By Canadian Press on August 30th, 2025
VENICE, Italy (AP) — Oscar Isaac and Jacob Elordi arrived at the Venice Film Festival Saturday for the world premiere of Guillermo del Toro’s “Frankenstein,” the kickoff to what’s expected to be the film’s major awards season push. Isaac plays Victor Frankenstein and Elordi is the monster in this adaptation of Mary Shelley’s classic novel, ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!A look at five films from Canadians heading to TIFF
By Canadian Press on August 30th, 2025
TORONTO — When the Toronto International Film Festival started in the mid-1970s, its purpose was to bring the best international films to Canadian audiences, programmer Robyn Citizen said in a recent video call. But as the years went by and the event once called the “Festival of Festivals” grew in both scope and influence, it ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Guillermo del Toro’s ‘Frankenstein’ to premiere at Venice with Oscar Isaac and Jacob Elordi
By Canadian Press on August 29th, 2025
VENICE, Italy (AP) — Oscar Isaac and Jacob Elordi are expected at the Venice Film Festival Saturday for the world premiere of Guillermo del Toro’s “Frankenstein,” the kickoff to what’s expected to be the film’s major awards season push. Isaac plays Victor Frankenstein and Elordi is the monster in this adaptation of Mary Shelley’s classic ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Late crime-busting sheriff Buford Pusser inspired Hollywood. Investigators say he killed his wife
By Canadian Press on August 29th, 2025
A late Tennessee sheriff who inspired a Hollywood movie about a law enforcement officer who took on organized crime killed his wife in 1967 and led people to believe she was murdered by his enemies, authorities in Tennessee said Friday. The finding will likely shock many who grew up as Buford Pusser fans and watched ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Highlights from Moscow Fashion Week in photos
By Canadian Press on August 29th, 2025
MOSCOW (AP) — Moscow’s annual fashion week launched near the Kremlin, featuring 200 mostly local brands as Russia seeks to promote domestic industry despite isolation over its war in Ukraine. ___ This is a photo gallery curated by AP photo editors. Pavel Bednyakov, The Associated Press... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Music Review: Sabrina Carpenter’s ‘Man’s Best Friend’ is a sincere but still sexy breakup album
By Canadian Press on August 29th, 2025
If Sabrina Carpenter’s “Short n’ Sweet” celebrated the start of a romantic relationship, the pop sensation’s seventh studio album, “Man’s Best Friend,” is where it all comes undone in messy pieces. The former Disney Channel star has risen to the top of the charts with catchy, sexually liberated hits that blend pop with the occasional ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Taylor Kitsch’s ‘The Terminal List’ character gets an origin story in ‘The Terminal List: Dark Wolf’
By Canadian Press on August 29th, 2025
Taylor Kitsch’s character ends up a villain in 2022’s Chris Pratt-led series, “The Terminal List,” and in a new series, viewers learn how he got that way. “The Terminal List: Dark Wolf,” now streaming on Prime Video, is set about five years before the original show. Kitsch plays Ben Edwards, a Navy SEAL deployed to ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!A Broadway show asks a white actor to replace an Asian one. The backlash was swift
By Canadian Press on August 29th, 2025
NEW YORK (AP) — The Broadway rom-com “Maybe Happy Ending” isn’t in a very happy place these days. A casting controversy threatens to dampen the show’s post-Tony Award-winning glow. The strife began when producers of the South Korea-based musical chose to cast Andrew Barth Feldman as the male lead when original star Darren Criss steps ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!From European avant-garde to celeb-driven fare, here are 10 buzzy films coming to TIFF
By Canadian Press on August 29th, 2025
TORONTO — It’s TIFF’s 50th edition — TIFFty feels like something of a missed branding opportunity — and the event once known as the Festival of Festivals is going big. More than 200 features are scheduled to screen between Sept. 4 and 14. The Canadian Press’ arts and entertainment team has picked out 10 buzzy ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Rodion Shchedrin, the celebrated Russian composer, has died at age 92
By Canadian Press on August 29th, 2025
MOSCOW (AP) — Russian composer Rodion Shchedrin, who created the celebrated ballets “Anna Karenina” and the “Carmen Suite,” has died in Germany at age of 92, Moscow’s Bolshoi Theater said Friday. He and his wife of 57 years, legendary ballerina Maya Plisetskaya, dominated the Soviet and Russian cultural scene for the latter part of the ... Read More »
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