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Movie Review: Bigelow’s ‘A House of Dynamite’ lights a fuse that doesn’t quite ignite
By Canadian Press on October 7th, 2025
In Kathryn Bigelow’s “A House of Dynamite,” when a mysterious missile launches from the Pacific and begins bearing down on the Midwest, the biggest threat initially at the White House is a pile of paper work. The ho-hum response that kicks off Bigelow’s firecracker of a film is quickly shattered. But that transition from routine ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Rolando Villazón directs opera at the world’s top houses while still singing
By Canadian Press on October 7th, 2025
NEW YORK (AP) — Tenor Rolando Villazón was singing the title role in Massenet’s “Werther” in 2006 at Nice, France, when he started thinking about how he would direct the opera. “I said, ‘oh, this last act is very difficult. He shot himself and keeps singing for 40 minutes.’ And so, what would I do?” ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!‘Roofman’ tells a stranger-than-fiction story with rigorous accuracy and a whole lot of toys
By Canadian Press on October 7th, 2025
TORONTO (AP) — The lengths writer-director Derek Cianfrance goes to create immersive environments for his actors has grown into a kind of legend. After making the much-improvised doomed romance of “Blue Valentine” (2010), Michelle Williams said she would have to remind herself that she was never, actually, married to Ryan Gosling. Cianfrance’s last feature, 2016’s ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Movie Review: ‘Tron’ franchise returns in a dazzling, action-packed sequel with plenty of nostalgia
By Canadian Press on October 7th, 2025
“Tron: Ares” may have the tagline “No Going Back” but Disney doesn’t like to leave money on the table. So here we are, going back with a third entry in a cult franchise that’s somewhat trapped between the human and digital worlds. Ride-or-die Tron-iacs are going to need a few things to be happy — ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Julia Roberts, Andrew Garfield and Ayo Edebiri on sex, lies and academics in ‘After the Hunt’
By Canadian Press on October 7th, 2025
VENICE, Italy (AP) — Andrew Garfield would like everyone to know about his gesticulating. Not in his performance as a Yale philosophy professor accused of sexual misconduct in “After the Hunt,” but while discussing an actor’s responsibility to comment on the work they’re putting out in the world. It’s a blue-sky day outside the luxurious ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Cineplex drip pricing case headed for appeal could serve as warning
By Canadian Press on October 7th, 2025
TORONTO — Cineplex Inc. is headed to court Wednesday to fight a decision — and record $38.9-million penalty — that experts say should serve as a warning for other companies. The theatre giant is appealing a Competition Tribunal decision from September last year that found Cineplex misled theatregoers by not immediately disclosing a fee up ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!National Book Award finalists announced: Alameddine, Majumdar, Li and Russell are among the nominees
By Canadian Press on October 7th, 2025
NEW YORK (AP) — Fiction by Rabih Alameddine, Megha Majumdar and Karen Russell and a memoir of family tragedy by Yiyun Li are among this year’s finalists for the National Book Award. On Tuesday, the National Book Foundation a nnounced five nominees in each of five competitive categories, narrowing long lists of 10 unveiled last ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Bob Ross paintings to be auctioned to support public TV stations after federal funding cuts
By Canadian Press on October 7th, 2025
LOS ANGELES (AP) — Thirty paintings created by the bushy-haired, soft-spoken Bob Ross will soon be up for auction to defray the costs of programming for small and rural public television stations suffering under cuts in federal funding. Ross, a public television stalwart in the 1980s and ’90s, “dedicated his life to making art accessible ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs’ lawyers want him sent to a New Jersey federal prison that offers drug treatment
By Canadian Press on October 6th, 2025
NEW YORK (AP) — Sean “Diddy” Combs’ lawyers want the hip-hop mogul sent to a low-security federal prison in New Jersey to serve his four-year, two-month prison sentence, telling a judge Monday that the facility’s drug treatment program will help him stay clean. In a letter, Combs’ lawyers urged the judge presiding over his case, ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Showmanship returns at Chanel as designer Blazy debuts under a sky of planets
By Canadian Press on October 6th, 2025
PARIS (AP) — Showmanship returned to Chanel on Monday. At Paris Fashion Week, the brand’s new creative director Matthieu Blazy opened the season’s most anticipated debut beneath colossal celestial bodies — Saturn with its rings, a full solar system suspended above a jet-black and a mirror-bright runway — staking a claim for theater from the ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Associated Press disputes Trump’s false characterization of its legal fight over access
By Canadian Press on October 6th, 2025
The Associated Press is objecting to Donald Trump’s false claims about its ongoing legal dispute over access after the president incorrectly characterized the case in a public forum — a situation that goes back to the news service’s decision last winter not to follow the president’s executive order to rename the Gulf of Mexico. Trump, ... Read More »
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