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The boldest thing about Captain America: Brave New World? Its title
Acting and directing talents are squandered in a bland Captain America reboot that can’t help but be crushed by all the boxes it needs to tick, and it's further bogged down by a convoluted plot and the increasingly impossible to remember callbacks from Marvel's huge back catalogue.
Want to 'watch Canadian' in the trade war? Here's why that's so hard
Years of purposefully enmeshed industries, based on the assumption that Canada's and the United States’ friendly relationship would last forever, has made it hard to solely 'buy Canadian.' Nowhere, it turns out, is that more evident than in film and television.
Tate McRae, Josh Ross lead nominees for country-loving 2025 Junos
Alberta pop sensation Tate McRae and Nashville up-and-comer Josh Ross led the list of Juno nominees released Tuesday, which highlight the rise of both country and Punjabi music in the Canadian mainstream.
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This hurts me to say: Love Hurts is garbage
Love Hurts — an action vehicle about a hitman drawn back in for one last job — doesn’t deserve the space it would take up in your brain. Which is a sad statement, given the role it could play in Ke Huy Quan's comeback.
From Companion to Ex Machina, Hollywood is robot-obsessed. Should we be afraid?
Right up to this week with Companion, the warning that robots are a bad idea is an entrenched part of cinema. But just how close are we to a robot-infused society? And how accurate is Hollywood's picture of our robot future?
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With Emilia Pérez's implosion, I'm Still Here is an Oscars frontrunner. Things could be better
Even given the opportunity to compare with modern day the process of democratic freedoms slowly stripped away in plain view, I’m Still Here forever pulls itself back into a paint-by-numbers character study.
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Hard Truths is a horror movie
Mike Leigh's Hard Truths is an impressionistic portrait of scattered lives, a tragicomedy made from the perspective of various members of a Black family slowly rotting in London. It's also a tough watch.
The Oscars love Emilia Pérez. Why does everyone else hate it?
Emilia Pérez led Oscar nominations on Thursday, pulling in a record-setting 13 nods. That's despite widespread criticism of the film as transphobic and racist.
September 5 director says his film is about journalism, not politics. It has its critics
The film September 5, which saw its wide release Jan. 17, details the 1972 Munich Olympics hostage crisis. The film's director says it pointedly focuses on journalism rather than politics. Critics appear to be split on whether that's a good or bad thing.
Bollywood star Saif Ali Khan in hospital after home invader stabbed him 6 times then fled
Indian Bollywood star Saif Ali Khan was stabbed in a scuffle with an intruder at his home early Thursday and underwent surgery at a hospital, media reports said.