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By Staff The Canadian Press Posted August 10, 2020 8:38 pm Smaller font Descrease article font size –A Larger font Increase article font size A+ TORONTO — The Toronto International Film Festival is giving more details on a hybrid festival that will largely feature digital screenings for home viewers but will also offer in-person screenings

A lost episode of black-ish that ABC controversially pulled years ago has been released onto Hulu, the show’s creator, Kenya Barris, announced on Monday. “I’m excited to share that ‘Please, Baby, Please’ is now available on Hulu,” Barris wrote in a statement posted to social media. “Following the re-airing of ‘Juneteenth’ and ‘Hope,’ I asked

At one point in The Umbrella Academy season 2, Diego manages to sneak into The Infinite Switchboard, a mysterious screen-filled room at The Commission’s headquarters that allows agents to step out of time and monitor every single point in the space-time continuum. In other words, it offers an overview of the show’s entire twisty-turny timeline.

Wake up, Canada! Now’s your chance to apply for the upcoming Season 9 of Big Brother Canada. After BBCAN8 was abruptly cut short due to the worldwide COVID-19 outbreak, the show is back and raring to go, and production is looking to cast a slate of brand-new contestants. (The American “all-star” version of Big Brother,

Twilight is back in the public discourse with the release of Midnight Sun, the retelling of the story from Edward Cullen’s perspective, which was long-awaited for some diehards. As people are re-discussing the books, the only thing I want to talk about is Rosalie Hale and how underserved she was in the series. Rosalie Hale

Last Wednesday, Hulu made the puzzling choice to cancel High Fidelity, the well-received dramedy starring and produced by Zoë Kravitz. At first Kravitz played it cool, posting an amicable Instagram goodbye message and thanking fans for supporting the show. Later, though, she left a comment revealing her true feelings about the cancellation, taking a dig

America’s Got Talent judge Simon Cowell is recovering in hospital after breaking his back in multiple places following an electric bike accident. Cowell, 60, had to undergo six hours of overnight surgery on Saturday. ETOnline reports that doctors said it’s a “bad injury,” but that Cowell is “very lucky.” Read more: YouTube star Jake Paul’s

Welcome to another edition of Grooming Gods. This week: we bow down to the almighty shag.  Holland Only thing we like more than loud shirts is layered hair.  Aaron Lewins Only thing we like more than loud shirts and layered hair is electric layered hair, no shirt at all.  Tallulah Willis and Dillon Buss This

President Donald Trump responded to collapsed stimulus talks with a series of executive actions undermining Congressional power that are unlikely to provide substantial economic relief and may face legal challenges. Trump said he would bypass Congress during a news event held at his private New Jersey golf club, where members cheered him on as he

Halifax anti-violence advocate Quentrel Provo announced last week that he has been nominated for Canada’s Top 40 Under 40 Award for 2020. Provo said on his Twitter page that the nomination was an “unexpected blessing.” 2020 has been such a tough year for all of us, but somehow unexpected blessings come your way and make

Joe Biden met with Michigan Governor Gretchen Whitmer last weekend, the first in-person session he is known to have had with a potential running mate. The news comes as Biden prepares to select a partner for the 2020 ticket, a decision expected to come this week from the presumptive Democratic nominee. Whitmer has held a

Priyanka Chopra and Nick Jonas are now a family of five: The actress and singer announced this afternoon that they have adopted a third dog, Panda. “Welcome to the family Panda! Panda is a Husky Australian Shepard mix rescue and we’re already in love ❤️,” Jonas wrote on his Instagram. Chopra shared the same shot

After a successful trilogy that began with the big screen reboot of Star Trek in 2009, many fans are wondering what the future holds for the Star Trek cinematic universe. We last saw our crew in 2016’s Star Trek: Beyond, but contract negotiations stalled any future chapters with the cast. It’s a disappointing turn, as

While airlines are posting billions in loses, with some CEOs suggesting they will continue to hemorrhage cash until a coronavirus vaccine is found, there may be a silver lining up there in the friendly skies, at least for travelers. The pandemic has afforded the aviation industry a pause in which to adjust the typically miserable

So I would say it’s strange, but in a positive way. It’s just like AAU—being around your teammates for a long period of time. Just mingling, creating that off-the-court bond with your teammates, it’s more important than anything. What are you doing during your off time? I’m always with my teammates. Always, whether it’s playing

With Joe Biden expected to announce his running mate next week, a group of influential women working in political advocacy sent a letter Friday to front-office and newsroom leaders of the nation’s top networks and newspapers urging them to avoid “stereotypes and tropes” in their coverage of the woman joining the ticket. The letter, from a

Gregg DeGuireGetty Images Jordan Fisher is stealing hearts twice in 2020—first as John Ambrose McClaren, Lara Jean’s childhood crush, in To All the Boys I’ve Loved Before: P.S. I Still Love You and now as former high school dance star Jake in Work It alongside Sabrina Carpenter. But in real life, he’s engaged to his

On Friday a Federal Judge in Manhattan reversed a decision held since 1948 concerning the exhibition of motion pictures. The “Paramount Decrees” stemmed from a Supreme Court ruling that disallowed movie studios from owning their own theaters to. It also ended (or at least curtailed) the practice of “block booking,” in which a studio could

2020 had initially promised a lot of exciting DC content. It started off with a bang with the incredible Birds of Prey. Then I was finally going to see my baby girl Diana Prince back on screen, and then I was going to get The Batman, and more news and footage about The Suicide Squad and New Gods coming

First, Oprah Winfrey put Breonna Taylor on the cover of O, The Oprah Magazine. Now the media mogul is spreading her message with billboards demanding justice for the Kentucky woman shot to death during a police raid. Twenty-six billboards are going up across Louisville, Kentucky, demanding that the police officers involved in Taylor’s death be

In the days after President Donald Trump was widely criticized for downplaying the severity of the coronavirus pandemic (“It is what it is,” he told Axios on HBO’s Jonathan Swan of the escalating daily death toll), the president returned to the “friendly confines” of Fox News, Seth Meyers pointed on Thursday’s episode of Late Night.

Lotta Volkova might be fashion’s preeminent guy-behind-the-guy. She’s the longtime stylist for Demna Gvasalia’s Balenciaga and Vetements, but her responsibilities for those two brands are much further-reaching than that role, including running the shows’ groundbreaking casting, and weighing in on silhouettes, fabrics, and products. On her own, she’s worked with designers including Sies Marjan, Marc

Liz Ikiriko is an independent curator, artist and lecturer at Ryerson University. Melanie Carrington is an investigator. Máiri McKenna Edwards is  diversity and inclusivity training coordinator at the University of Toronto. Kara Stewart-Agostino is a personal trainer. Karina Vernon is associate professor of english at the University of Toronto Scarborough.  In early July, in Toronto’s west-end neighbourhood of Roncesvalles,

A different sort of crowd amassed outside of YouTube star Jake Paul‘s mansion in Calabasas, Calif., on Wednesday morning. Rather than groups of raucous young people, which Paul is renowned for having at his home, this time it was a group of uniformed FBI agents — including a SWAT team — there to conduct a

Former wrestling star Marty Jannetty appeared to confess to homicide in a Facebook post on Wednesday. The wrestler, who made his name as half of the “Rockers” duo in the 1980s, wrote, “I was 13, working at Victory Lanes bowling alley buying weed,” and used a homophobic slur to refer to the dealer. “He put

Meghan Markle and Prince Harry spent her birthday on Tuesday offline, with none of their own official social media posts to mark the festivities. But Us Weekly got some intel from a source about how the Duke and Duchess of Sussex quietly spent their day in Los Angeles with their one-year-old son, Archie. The source

Kindergarten Cop, the 1990 PG-13 movie starring Arnold Schwarzenegger as a detective who goes undercover as a kindergarten school teacher to take down a drug kingpin, has been pulled from a Portland, Ore., drive-in festival after accusations the film “romanticizes over-policing.” Local publication Williamette Week reports that the NW Film Center had planned to kick

Taika Waititi is back to set and back to sleeping. The Thor: Ragnarok director is known for a great many things. He makes incredible movies, is a wonderful storyteller, and naps all over his sets. This time? He’s also wearing a mask. Back on set! I’ve come to realise just how much I miss shooting.