April 16th, 2025

Entertainment News

Book Review: ‘John & Paul’ explores complex ties between Lennon and McCartney

By Canadian Press on April 9th, 2025

Ian Leslie’s “John & Paul: A Love Story in Songs,” takes a detailed look — 426 pages — at how John Lennon and Paul McCartney worked together from their meeting as teenagers until John’s death. Had McCartney not decided at age 15 to go hear Lennon’s band playing in a Liverpool suburb, the world would ... Read More »

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Book Review: ‘John & Paul’ explores complex ties between Lennon and McCartney

By Canadian Press on April 9th, 2025

Ian Leslie’s “John & Paul: A Love Story in Songs,” takes a detailed look — 426 pages — at how John Lennon and Paul McCartney worked together from their meeting as teenagers until John’s death. Had McCartney not decided at age 15 to go hear Lennon’s band playing in a Liverpool suburb, the world would ... Read More »

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Book Review: ‘John & Paul’ explores complex ties between Lennon and McCartney

By Canadian Press on April 9th, 2025

Ian Leslie’s “John & Paul: A Love Story in Songs,” takes a detailed look — 426 pages — at how John Lennon and Paul McCartney worked together from their meeting as teenagers until John’s death. Had McCartney not decided at age 15 to go hear Lennon’s band playing in a Liverpool suburb, the world would ... Read More »

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Book Review: ‘John & Paul’ explores complex ties between Lennon and McCartney

By Canadian Press on April 9th, 2025

Ian Leslie’s “John & Paul: A Love Story in Songs,” takes a detailed look — 426 pages — at how John Lennon and Paul McCartney worked together from their meeting as teenagers until John’s death. Had McCartney not decided at age 15 to go hear Lennon’s band playing in a Liverpool suburb, the world would ... Read More »

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Movie Review: ‘Drop’ doesn’t phone it in

By Canadian Press on April 9th, 2025

It’s oddly comforting that a movie can still dial M when it wants to. Smart phones have largely been a bit of a buzzkill for horror films, leading filmmakers to find all kinds of reasons — dead batteries, no service — to strand potential prey. But at least since 1949’s “Sorry, Wrong Number,” phones have ... Read More »

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‘Civil War’ filmmaker and a former SEAL built a new kind of combat movie in ‘Warfare’

By Canadian Press on April 9th, 2025

Filmmaker Alex Garland wanted to make a different kind of war film. Would it be possible, he wondered, to take 90 minutes of a real incident involving combat and recreate it as faithfully as possible? He posed that question to former Navy SEAL Ray Mendoza, who served in Iraq and had in recent years built ... Read More »

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Rogers boardroom drama to hit stage as live theatre production in December

By Canadian Press on April 9th, 2025

TORONTO — A bombastic boardroom battle for control of the Rogers telecom empire is hitting the stage as a live theatre production later this year. Crow’s Theatre says the play, “Rogers v. Rogers” is a “timely, complex portrait of democracy under pressure” that will hit the stage Dec. 2 to Dec. 28. Stage veteran Tom ... Read More »

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Pope Francis meets privately with King Charles and Queen Camilla during his Vatican convalescence

By Canadian Press on April 9th, 2025

ROME (AP) — Pope Francis met privately with King Charles III and Queen Camilla on Wednesday at the Vatican during the royal couple’s four-day state visit to Italy and on the occasion of their 20th wedding anniversary, the Vatican announced. It was the first announced meeting since the pope’s return to the Vatican after five ... Read More »

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Pope Francis and King Charles hold a private meeting, Vatican says

By Canadian Press on April 9th, 2025

ROME (AP) — Pope Francis and King Charles III met privately Wednesday at the Vatican during the king’s four-day state visit to Italy, the Vatican announced. It was the first announced meeting since the pope’s return to the Vatican after five weeks in the hospital for life-threatening double pneumonia. Francis had planned to have an ... Read More »

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Albums from Miles Davis, Mary J. Blige, Elton John and Minecraft enter National Recording Registry

By Canadian Press on April 9th, 2025

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Albums from Elton John, Miles Davis, Tracy Chapman, Mary J. Blige and the cast of “Hamilton” are entering America’s audio canon, along with singles from Helen Reddy and Celine Dion and the music of Minecraft. New inductees into the National Recording Registry at the Library of Congress include Davis’ groundbreaking 1970 ... Read More »

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Albums from Miles Davis, Mary J. Blige, Elton John and ‘Minecraft’ enter National Recording Registry

By Canadian Press on April 9th, 2025

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Albums from Elton John, Miles Davis, Tracy Chapman, Mary J. Blige and the cast of “Hamilton” are entering America’s audio canon, along with singles from Helen Reddy and Celine Dion and the music of “Minecraft.” New inductees into the National Recording Registry at the Library of Congress include Davis’ groundbreaking 1970 ... Read More »

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