July 30th, 2025

Entertainment News

‘Building the Band’ has Liam Payne’s last major appearance before his death

By Canadian Press on July 22nd, 2025

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Netflix’s new reality show, “Building the Band,” unexpectedly became Liam Payne’s last major appearance — moments the show’s hosts say they, along with contestants and viewers, are lucky to have. The show features Payne as a guest judge, offering pointed but witty advice to young bands chasing success not unlike what ... Read More »

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Colbert jokes about ‘cancel culture’ and has a very pointed message for Trump

By Canadian Press on July 22nd, 2025

Stephen Colbert returned for his first full program after last week’s announcement that CBS was canceling his “Late Show” with some supportive late-night guests, a joke about cancel culture and an extremely pointed remark directed at President Donald Trump. “I’m going to go ahead and say it: Cancel culture’s gone way too far,” Colbert said ... Read More »

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Trump administration withdraws from UNESCO again, only 2 years after US rejoined

By Canadian Press on July 22nd, 2025

United Nations (AP) — The Trump administration announced Tuesday that it will once again withdraw from the U.N. cultural agency UNESCO, an expected move that has the U.S. further retreating from international organizations. The decision to pull U.S. funding and participation from UNESCO comes two years after the Biden administration rejoined following a controversial, five-year ... Read More »

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RenĂ©e Fleming makes directing debut with wrestling-themed ‘CosĂŹ fan tutte’ at Aspen Music Festival

By Canadian Press on July 22nd, 2025

ASPEN, Colo. (AP) — RenĂ©e Fleming’s “CosĂŹ fan tutte” was ready to rumble. Long a star soprano, Fleming made her directing debut Monday night at the Aspen Music Festival and School by transporting Mozart’s masterpiece from 18th century Naples, Italy, to a gym in Yarmouth, Massachusetts, amid professional wrestling’s rise in 1980. Posters on stage ... Read More »

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Movie Review: The villains steal the show in ‘The Fantastic Four: First Steps’

By Canadian Press on July 22nd, 2025

More than six decades after Jack Kirby and Stan Lee created a superhero team to rival the Justice League, the Fantastic Four finally get a worthy big-screen adaption in a spiffy ’60s-era romp, bathed in retrofuturism and bygone American optimism. Though the Fantastic Four go to the very origins of Marvel Comics, their movie forays ... Read More »

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Hunter Biden lashes out at George Clooney, other Democrats, over Joe Biden’s 2024 campaign

By Canadian Press on July 22nd, 2025

WASHINGTON (AP) — Former President Joe Biden’s son Hunter, seen by some as the problem child of the Democratic Party for legal and drug-related woes that brought negative attention to his father, is lashing out against Democratic “elites” and others over the way he says his father was treated during last year’s presidential campaign. Hunter ... Read More »

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US says it’s leaving UNESCO again, only 2 years after rejoining

By Canadian Press on July 22nd, 2025

United Nations (AP) — The Trump administration announced Tuesday that it will once again withdraw from the U.N. cultural agency UNESCO, an expected move that has the U.S. further retreating from international organizations. The decision to pull U.S. funding and participation from UNESCO comes two years after the Biden administration rejoined following a controversial, five-year ... Read More »

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Colbert jokes about ‘cancel culture’ and has a very pointed message for President Donald Trump

By Canadian Press on July 22nd, 2025

Stephen Colbert returned for his first full program after last week’s announcement that CBS was canceling his “Late Show” with some supportive late-night guests, a joke about cancel culture and an extremely pointed remark directed at President Donald Trump. “I’m going to go ahead and say it: Cancel culture’s gone way too far,” Colbert said ... Read More »

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‘Washington Black’ is the show that could, just like its main character

By Canadian Press on July 22nd, 2025

LONDON (AP) — “Washington Black” just seemed destined for a screen adaptation. The 2018 novel by Canadian writer Esi Edugyan caught actor Sterling K. Brown’s eye. As he put the wheels in motion, things just started to line up in a most un-Hollywood fashion — so much so that Brown started to believe strongly the ... Read More »

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‘Nino,’ ‘The Hen’ and other avant-garde films that TIFF programmers are obsessed with

By Canadian Press on July 22nd, 2025

TORONTO — A French film about a young man facing a devastating diagnosis and a portrait of humanity from the perspective of a chicken are among the movies in the Toronto International Film Festival’s competitive Platform program. TIFF announced contenders for the $20,000 prize on Tuesday ahead of the festival’s 50th edition in September. It’s ... Read More »

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Hunter Biden accuses George Clooney of undermining his father in 2024 presidential election

By Canadian Press on July 22nd, 2025

WASHINGTON (AP) — Former President Joe Biden’s son Hunter isn’t hiding his feelings about actor and Democratic Party donor George Clooney’s decision to call on the elder Biden to abandon his 2024 reelection bid. In a rare online interview, Hunter Biden used a string of expletives to describe Clooney when discussing the actor with Andrew ... Read More »

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