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Michael Bublé announced as Junos 2025 host
Canadian crooner Michael Bublé has been announced as the host for the Juno Awards' 2025 show.
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Wicked offers a tantalizing taste of musical's magic, but still suffers from Part 1 syndrome
Wicked, led by Cynthia Erivo and Ariana Grande is impressively faithful to the movie-musical format. But with a full year remaining until Part 2 is released, there's still a lot to be desired.
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Not 'sorry aboot it!': Taylor Swift wows in electric Toronto debut
Taylor Swift’s long awaited return to Canada, more than six years after her last time in the country, hit like a hurricane. And she still lived up to the hype.
Taylor Swift is shaping our culture. How did that happen?
Some see the "Taylor effect" — Swift's commanding impact on the music industry and culture at large — as a defining element of the 21st century. But what exactly is behind that effect, and how did it get so big?
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Blitz recalls a long line of war movies going back decades, but that doesn't mean it's not relevant
Following a mother and son during the the Blitz, Nazi Germany's bombing campaign on London during the Second World War, director Steve McQueen's new drama understands the war film — perhaps a bit too well.
Kim Kardashian debuts Princess Diana pendant
Billionaire and social media mogul Kim Kardashian finally wore the Princess Diana-owned pendant she bought last year. She debuted the amethyst and diamond cross, purchased in January 2023 for £163,800 (roughly $265,000 Cdn), at the LACMA Art+Film Gala in Los Angeles on Saturday.
This is why you like to speed up podcasts, movies and music
To answer why people might be drawn to speeding up media, CBC News talked to some of the leading researchers in cognitive science about what double-time music, podcasts and movies does to our brains.
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Emilia Pérez is a misguided musical mess
Emilia Pérez, the genre-bending musical about a transgender cartel boss, is many things. Good isn't one of them.
Anora and the changing depiction of sex work in Hollywood
Sean Baker’s Palme d’Or-winning film Anora is one of a series of films changing how sex work and sex workers are depicted in film.
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Conclave is slick, unserious — and verging on great
Conclave is a silly film masquerading as serious social commentary — a sort of Mean Girls in robes, juggling a seemingly impactful message that instantly shatters into a thousand little pieces the moment you actually start to examine it. It's also quite good.