Every week in Slate’s American Horror Story TV club, J. Bryan Lowder will have an IM conversation with a different AHS fan. This week, he rehashes episode 2.11 with Abby Ohlheiser, a Slate contributor.
The Idle No More movement has rallied artists from across Canada, including Winnipeg musician John K. Samson of the Weakerthans, to lend their support to the cause.
Historical biopic Lincoln leads the race for the British Academy Film Awards, with 10 nominations including best picture and best actor — but nothing for director Steven Spielberg.
Sarah Polley's confessional documentary Stories We Tell has won best Canadian film from the Toronto Film Critics Association, an award that carries a prize pot of $100,000.
Lincoln leads the nominations for the Bafta awards and producers of the Spice Girls musical deny it will close early plus the rest of the day's entertainment stories.
The Directors Guild of America has announced the nominations for the Outstanding Directorial Achievement in Feature Film award. Directors David O. Russell (Silver Linings Playbook), Quentin Tarantino (Django Unchained) and Paul Thomas Anderson (The Master) did not make the list. Here is the list of nominees:
Ben Affle...
Music producer Tony Visconti, who has worked with David Bowie frequently over the past four decades, talks to the BBC about working with the singer on his new album.
An average audience of 7.9 million viewers tuned in for Sunday's premiere of season three of Downton Abbey. The Masterpiece Classic historical drama aired on PBS and WGBH. This was a big jump from last year's premiere, with garnered 4.2 million viewers. Deadline.com says only CBS was able to PBS in the time slot. The...
Texas Chainsaw 3D won the box office this weekend. The horror film stars Alexandra Daddario, Dan Yeager, Tania Raymonde, Scott Eastwood and Trey Songz. The film won despite bad reviews from critics. The film made $23 million, which put it $3 million ahead of Django Unchained, which made another $20 millon during its ...
Here is the second trailer for Hansel & Gretel: Witch Hunters. The film stars Jeremy Renner and Gemma Arterton as Hansel and Gretel from the classic Grimm fairy tale. The dark fantasy has Hansel and Gretel escaping from the witch and growing up to be witch hunters. The film opens January 25th and it will be interesti...
Film: Here comes Quentin Tarantino, galloping into the terrible history of American slavery with a shotgun in his hands and a bundle of dynamite slung across his chest. He won't indulge a lick of sensitivity, accuracy, or brevity along the way -- unlike just about every other filmmaker who's tackled the subjec...
Film: Celebrated Spanish actress Carmen Maura plays a ditzy mom in Mikael Buch's new gay romantic comedy Let My People Go! Maura, you may recall, was the unforgettable lead in gay Spanish auteur Pedro Almodovar's unforgettable hysterical farce from 1988, Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown. That was Maur...
A new trailer has been released for Tom Sawyer & Huckleberry Finn, a new film based on Mark Twain's novels. The film stars Joel Courtney (Super 8) as Tom Sawyer and Jake T. Austin as Huckleberry Finn. THR says the film has supernatural elements. A release date for the film has not been set. Take a look:
Photo: ABC...
Stage: War is a drug on which human society appears to be hopelessly addicted. That, at least, is the sad essence of An Iliad, Lisa Peterson and Denis O'Hare's intriguing contemporary adaptation of Homer's three-millennia-old epic poem. Though mostly focused on the key players, causes and events of the gre...
The Nut Job is an animated film based on the 2005 comedy short, Surly Squirrel, by Peter Lepeniotis. Canadian-based ToonBox and Redrover have partnered to create the film, which will be directed by Lepeniotis. Katherine Heigl, Will Arnett, Brendan Fraser, Stephen Lang, Sarah Gadon and Jeff Dunham voice characters in ...
Billy Connolly stars in Dustin Hoffman's directorial debut, Quartet, with Dame Maggie Smith, Michael Gambon, Tom Courtenay and Sheridan Smith. Connolly and Smith spoke to the BBC's Tim Masters about the film
Stage: Brel: Natascia Diaz, Sam Ludwig, Bobby Smith, Bayla Whitten (Photo by Christopher Banks) Theater is generally intended to be a mentally transporting experience, but of course physical transport – getting there – is necessary first. And it's not always a walk in the park, or an easy commute. In 2...
Stage: Strange Interlude: Francesca Faridany (Photo by Scott Suchman) A good night at the theater is kind of like plane travel for brains. A really great production gets your mind on board smoothly and efficiently and before you know it you are through the clouds and soaring. A not-so-great production is more like a d...
Les Miserables won the box office on Christmas Day with a take of $18.1 million. Box Office Mojo reports that this is the biggest Christmas Day box office for a musical and the fourth highest Christmas Day box office overall. Django Unchained was not far behind. It made $15 million. The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey ...
Film: Beasts of the Southern Wild Don't be discouraged by Hollywood schlock -- we're living in a wonderful age of film. Even if there were a few duds in the last twelve months, several ambitious movies stood out for daring to try something new. The movies I appreciated the most this year varied in style, story...
Music: Scissor Sisters (Photo by Neil Krug) The year 2012 goes down as a sad one, the year we lost both Donna Summer and Whitney Houston. It just so happens, a month before Houston overdosed, Gavin Creel – on his great, short set Get Out – sang a sweet tribute to Houston, crediting her with inspiring him t...
Music: ''Because my teacher knew that I could handle the higher notes,'' says singer-songwriter Ari Hest, ''he would stick me with the girls sometimes, or with the tenors, depending on the thing that we were singing.'' But Hest is not a tenor and doesn't generally sing in falsetto. ...
Another Scary Movie is coming to theaters in April 2012. Scary Movie 5 stars Ashley Tisdale, Simon Rex and Erica Ash. The film also features a cameo by Charlie Sheen and Lindsay Lohan as themselves. Some fans will miss Anna Farris and Regina Hall, who starred in the first four films. Take a look:
Photo: The Weins...
Music: A man whose last name is best known from a Christmas song, leading a Jewish-themed show on Christmas Eve? It's not just funny -- Rob Tannenbaum insists it's Good for the Jews. To be exact, that's the name of his rock band with David Fagin. ''What we're trying to present is an evolved ide...
Music: Right now, there are surprise gifts in store for everyone at Signature Theatre. ''We're going to put songs in stockings,'' explains singer Bobby Smith, ''and let the audience choose what stocking they want.'' As a result, Smith and his cohorts – Eleasha Gamble, James Ga...
The trailer for To the Wonder, starring Ben Affleck, Olga Kurylenko,Javier Bardem and Rachel McAdams, has been released. The film premiered at the 2012 Venice Film Festival. It was written and directed by Terrence Malick. Here is the offical synopsis:
The film tells the story of Marina (Kurylenko) and Neil (Affleck)...
Film: I must confess: I've never seen Les Misérables onstage. Until a few weeks ago, when I finally threw myself into all things Schönberg, Javert and Valjean (at last!), I hadn't the faintest idea what the musical was about, or why it's been a Broadway dynamo for a quarter-century. Thanks to director Tom ...
Here is the trailer for Pacific Rim, Guillermo del Toro's movie about an invasion of giant monsters from beneath the oceans. The monsters are known as Kaiju. A viral site gives updates about where the monsters have struck. In order to fight back, two humans are neurally linked to operate a giant robot. The film stars...
Film: I was ready to be underwhelmed by The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey. Nearly a decade after The Return of the King, director Peter Jackson hasn't merely adapted J.R.R. Tolkien's novel into a breezy supplement to his epic Lord of the Rings trilogy. No, the madman from New Zealand decided to split that rela...
Stage: Amy Saidman got turned off of becoming a standup comic. ''Other comedians are cold and aloof and unfriendly,'' Saidman says, ''telling homophobic jokes to 20 people in a basement. … It's so not attractive any more.'' Certainly not since Saidman, a former teacher, disco...
Music: Got the holiday spirit – but tired of tradition? Call it bah-humbug blasphemy, but most area theaters and concert venues aim to entice the average Scrooge with at least one alternative holiday offering over the next few weeks. Even in the chorale capital of the United States, it's not all singing caro...
Oprah Winfrey spoke with Steven Spielberg and Daniel Day-Lewis about their new film Lincoln. In this video clip Daniel talks about why he took the role after turning it down nine years ago. Daniel says he read the script and realized immediately the possibilities due to the great writing. He says
the richness of the ...
Stage: Enchantingly atmospheric and often funny, the Shakespeare Theatre Company's A Midsummer Night's Dream is rich with love's intangibles: wistfulness, a touch of cynicism, and its contrast of flavors – the blindly new, the knowingly seasoned, and the always mysterious. Of course, much has been wr...
In this featurette Keira Knightley and director Joe Wright discuss the making of the film Anna Karenina, which is based on the novel by Leo Tolstoy. Keira and Joe have worked together on various films since she was 18 years old and Joe says she has really grown as an actress. Keira says that she worked hard to portray ...
That's a big call, but the two pieces that open the show are from one album, and it weighs a tonne! you'll get to hear enough to make your call as well as the last in our Ausmusic Memories project. Add to that a couple of pieces from Pool; new Canadian quartet; Masonik's sax player; new Au...
Bradley Cooper talked with Jay Leno about his much buzzed about movie, Silver Linings Playbook which also stars Jennifer Lawrence. Bradley says he wasn't sure he could pull off the emotional range required for the film, which is based on the novel of the same name. His character has lost his job and his wife and has sp...
Joseph Gordon-Levitt was a guest on The Tonight Show to promote his new film Lincoln. Levitt talks with Jay Leno about working with Daniel Day-Lewis who plays Abraham Lincoln in the film. Lewis is a Method actor and pretty much stayed in character as Lincoln the whole time. Because Lincoln and Levitt's characters didn'...
The program starts with a mystery artist, never before heard and caught pre-record co. deal. There is also Kyu with beauty from their final album; more from the Masonik Sound Quality Session and Brian Eno with his time travel back several decades to his ambient period - except he has just ...
Amazon has released a calendar of the Blu-ray and DVD movie and tv lightning deals that will be available during its Black Friday Deals Week. We have compiled an alphabetical list of the Blu-ray movies and tv series that will be available. Be sure to check the calendar for the start times. Amazon's lightning deals te...
Music for Films; Music for Airports; and Thursday Afternoon are classic ambient albums made by Brian Eno. His new ambient work is titled Lux. and while is draws on the same ideas about music as his ambient works from 30 years ago, there is a new angle because of the technological changes. ...
Justin Bieber and Taylor Swift each won three awards at the 2012 MTV EMAs. The awards were hosted in Frankfurt, Germany and hosted by Heidi Klum. Frankfurt is Heidi's hometown. Here are the winners:
BEST FEMALE Taylor SwiftBEST SONGCarly Rae Jepsen - "Call Me Maybe"BEST MALEJustin BieberBEST LIVETaylor SwiftBEST LOO...
After all the rumors and the denials, it turns out that Mark Wahlberg really is going to star in Transformers 4. Michael Bay announced on his website that the film's release date will be July 27th, 2014.
Bay said, "Mark is awesome. We had a blast working on Pain and Gain and I'm so fired up to be back working with him...
Marvel has released the official trailer for Iron Man 3. Tony Stark and Pepper Potts have their lives upturned by The Mandarin (Ben Kingsley), who destroys their home. The trailer also shows glimpses of Guy Pearce as Aldrich Killian. The film arrives in theaters on May 3, 2013. It looks amazing. Take a look:
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