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Entertainment Dabney Coleman, the moustached character actor who specialized in smarmy villains like the chauvinist boss in 9 to 5 and the nasty TV director in Tootsie, has died. He was 92. Coleman specialized in playing smarmy villains, appeared on screen for decades Mark Kennedy · The Associated Press ·Continue Reading

Entertainment·Video Security video aired by CNN appears to show music mogul Sean Combs, also known as Diddy, physically assaulting his girlfriend at the time, singer Cassie, in a Los Angeles hotel hallway in 2016.  CNN released 2016 Los Angeles hotel security video on Friday Andrew Dalton · The Associated PressContinue Reading

Entertainment·REVIEW I Saw the TV Glow is beautiful and deliberately crafted by its director Jane Schoenbrun. But depending on who’s watching, the mystery at its heart is either too obvious, or too inscrutable to justify more than 30 minutes. Esoteric 90s horror is perfectly crafted — just not to everyone’sContinue Reading

Entertainment Cannes is looking pretty Canadian this year with David Cronenberg, Guy Maddin featuresCannes is looking particularly Canadian this year. In the country’s largest showing since 2012 — which saw three Canadian features and a short film in the official selection — this year’s festival is largely bolstered by productionsContinue Reading

Chances are you’ve heard of Baby Reindeer, even if you haven’t watched it yet. Netflix’s dark and buzzy series spent four weeks as the most popular show on the streaming service globally, and it was also the top show in Canada. The mini-series by Scottish comedian Richard Gadd centres on the main character’s harrowing experience of beingContinue Reading

Eurovision’s slogan is “United By Music,” but this year’s edition of the singing competition was marked by unprecedented protests. Non-binary Swiss artist Nemo took home the grand prize with The Code, a song about their journey to embracing their identity — and a stage performance that featured Nemo on aContinue Reading

Entertainment Michael Bublé is taking his seat at The Voice this fall. The Spicy Margarita singer has been announced as a judge on the upcoming season of the singing competition series, alongside fellow newcomer Snoop Dogg. Burnaby singer will be first Canadian to hold judging spot on popular U.S. singing competition DavidContinue Reading

Entertainment After being sentenced to eight years in prison, the award-winning Iranian director Mohammad Rasoulof says he’s fled to Europe shortly ahead of the Cannes Film Festival premiere of his latest film. Director’s latest film shows ‘how insidiously the Iranian dictatorship creeps into families’: Cannes Jake Coyle · The AssociatedContinue Reading

Entertainment Prolific ‘king of B movies’ filmmaker Roger Corman dead at 98Low-budget cinema maestro Roger Corman, who cranked out hundreds of outrageous films over six decades and helped launch the careers of acclaimed directors Martin Scorsese, Francis Ford Coppola, James Cameron and Ron Howard, died on Thursday at age 98,Continue Reading