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Moviemaker magazine ranks Calgary 10th on list of ‘best places to live and work'
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American actress Cloris Leachman dead at age 94
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Roots and boundaries: Calgary rapper Zhe the Free wants to broaden our hip-hop community
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'Iron Man' Downey launches funds in environmental fight
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Cannes Film Festival postponed due to COVID-19
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Dwayne Johnson shares stories from his crazy youth in 'Young Rock'
Director of Promising Young Woman explains why her dark story opens on a light note
There’s a fascinating shot, right at the beginning of the movie Promising Young Woman . We’re in a nightclub and the camera, perched pervily at about hip-height, is ogling the writhing torsos and legs of a group of dancers out on the floor ...
In depths of pandemic, one fashion designer turns hand to being a movie director
By Elizabeth Pineau PARIS (Reuters) - French fashion designer Julien Fournie first learned to wield a pair of scissors, then to design a dress on an iPad. Now, the global pandemic has forced him to pick up a new skill - as movie director. Paris ...
Chanel hosts family reunion in absence of big Haute Couture show
PARIS (Reuters) - French fashion house Chanel chose to put family at the forefront of its Spring-Summer 2021 Haute Couture show, with models strutting under flower arches at a socially-distanced presentation with a few famous faces. With France ...
Jane Fonda to get lifetime award at Golden Globes
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - American actor and activist Jane Fonda will get a lifetime achievement award at the Golden Globes ceremony next month, marking a career in film, television and at the forefront of social issues over some 60 years. The ...
Disney's Jungle Cruise ride to remove 'negative depictions'
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - The Jungle Cruise ride at Disney's theme parks in California and Florida is getting a makeover to remove what the company called "negative depictions" of some cultures. Disney said on Monday that the river boat attraction ...
Trailer suggests Godzilla vs. Kong is all punchline and no punch
Like every good movie trailer, the newly released promo for Godzilla vs. Kong saves its biggest punch for the end. After two minutes and 20 seconds of two behemoths pummeling each other with fists, claws, spears, fiery breath and, in ...
Keira Knightley says no interest in filming sex scenes for men
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Actress Keira Knightley is no longer interested in doing sex scenes just to appeal to men, she said, calling her no-nudity decision partly a result of having two children. But if a female director was behind the camera, ...
Black stories highlighted in AFI 2021 film honors
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - The American Film Institute (AFI) on Monday announced its movies of the year, with five of the 10 honorees featuring predominantly non-white casts and stories. The annual list, released ahead of the major 2021 award shows, ...
A Dior tarot for uncertain times at Paris Haute Couture Week
PARIS (Reuters) - Lavish golden dresses decked out in zodiac signs and tarot symbols provided some Christian Dior-infused mysticism for the start of Paris' Haute Couture Week, a showcase of one-of-a-kind outfits held online this time due to the ...
Renowned historian Deborah Lipstadt to give Zoom talk on anti-Semitism, Holocaust denial on Jan. 27
There are plenty of cautionary lessons that modern history can teach us about how racism and other strains of hatred seemed to rise in America under now former-president Donald Trump. But renowned historian Deborah Lipstadt, an expert on ...
