10. BREAKFAST AT YOUR PLACE This mischievous Paris band makes the languid Gorillaz hit sound as though it’s never had even a passing acquaintance with reggae; makes it sound, in fact, like it’s never been exposed to sunlight. Imagine an outtake from The Triplets of Belleville soundtrack, and you’ll find yourself in the right...
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LOS ANGELES—Music mogul and rapper Sean “Diddy” Combs will not be appearing in British period TV drama Downtown Abbey, U.S. broadcaster PBS said on Wednesday, despite tweets saying he would be joining the hit show’s upcoming season. Diddy set social media abuzz on Wednesday after posts on his verified Twitter account said, “MY BIG...
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NEW YORK—This week, the streets of midtown Manhattan are again swarming with TV executives trying to woo ad buyers to their upcoming fall lineups with splashy presentations, star-packed cocktail parties and plentiful swag. But there’s an air of urgency for the suits at the legacy networks: CBS, NBC, ABC and Fox. They’ve been rocked...
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By W. Somerset Maugham. Directed by Morris Panych. Until Oct. 27 at the Royal George Theatre. 1-800-511-SHAW. NIAGARA-ON-THE-LAKE, ONT.—If you’re tending to be scandalized lately by the supposedly loose morals of the world in which we live, take a deep breath and plunge into the decidedly louche society of Our Betters, which had a...
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CHRIS MARKER: World cinema lost one of its most brilliant mavericks when Chris Marker died at the age of 91 last July. TIFF Bell Lightbox hosts two tributes to the French filmmaker, photographer and writer this month. An exhibition of photos shot by Marker between the 1950s and 2010, Memory of a Certain Time...
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It was another good night to be female on The Voice. With the second live playoff episode concluded, we can add a couple more women’s names to the list of front-runners from Monday’s show: Sasha Allen and Danielle Bradbery. Of course, they couldn’t be more different: one a mom and experienced background vocalist; one...
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Travelling across the country on a limited budget, beset with dozens of obstacles and challenges along the way. A family road-trip? No. It’s the Canadian spin spinoff of The Amazing Race. And the stakes just got higher. The Canadian version of the popular American reality show will premier on CTV on July 15 and...
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“There’s something happening here/What it is, ain’t exactly clear.” That brooding lyric from Buffalo Springfield hasn’t popped up yet on the soundtrack for season six of Mad Men, but don’t be surprised if it does. Not only would it be an apt mood setter for the period of upset and upheaval from 1968 that...
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As if it wasn’t challenging enough to make a film on a cramped raft in the middle of a churning sea with Kon-Tiki, directors and childhood friends Joachim Ronning and Espen Sandberg also shot most scenes twice — in English and Norwegian. But it was worth it to get the story of anthropologist, explorer...
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Sound in Motion, the little indie electronic-music festival that could, is coming back for another go-’round in Toronto this summer over the weekend of July 11-13. It’s a crowded field out there, of course, since last year’s explosion of high-profile dance-music events around the city wasn’t just a blip. The inaugural editions of the...
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