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Anora triumphs with 5 Oscars, including best picture, at safe but steady Academy Awards
Anora was the big winner of the 97th Academy Awards with five wins, while The Brutalist trailed with three Oscars. Wicked, Emilia Pérez and Dune: Part Two tied for third with two wins each.
Leonard Cohen lock of hair, 'explicit digital artwork' fetch big prices at auction
Personal effects belonging to Canadian musician and poet Leonard Cohen, who died 2016, went up for sale on Friday. A locket containing Cohen's hair went for nearly 10 times above its estimated sale price.
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Oscars 2025: Who's likely to win, who should win — and how to sound smart at your Oscars party
CBC takes a look at some of the top categories at this year's Academy Awards to present you with projected winners, outside chances and some quick tidbits you can drop amongst your cinephile friends to sound like you’ve been watching along all season.
The Brutalist used AI for Adrien Brody's Oscar-nominated performance. Is that cheating?
The Brutalist used artificial intelligence to adjust Adrien Brody and co-star Felicity Jones’s Hungarian lines. As the roles the two played as Hungarian immigrants earned them best actor and supporting actress nominations, it raises a question: Should an acting award be given for an AI-aided performance?
REVIEW
Stephen King adaptation The Monkey is a sick joke
The Monkey turns out to be is something more like a personification of its demon than an examination of it — perhaps because Stephen King and Osgood Perkins may just be the two worst possible creatives to bring together.
REVIEW
The boldest thing about Captain America: Brave New World? Its title
Acting and directing talents are squandered in a bland Captain America reboot that can’t help but be crushed by all the boxes it needs to tick, and it's further bogged down by a convoluted plot and the increasingly impossible to remember callbacks from Marvel's huge back catalogue.
Want to 'watch Canadian' in the trade war? Here's why that's so hard
Years of purposefully enmeshed industries, based on the assumption that Canada's and the United States’ friendly relationship would last forever, has made it hard to solely 'buy Canadian.' Nowhere, it turns out, is that more evident than in film and television.
Tate McRae, Josh Ross lead nominees for country-loving 2025 Junos
Alberta pop sensation Tate McRae and Nashville up-and-comer Josh Ross led the list of Juno nominees released Tuesday, which highlight the rise of both country and Punjabi music in the Canadian mainstream.
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This hurts me to say: Love Hurts is garbage
Love Hurts — an action vehicle about a hitman drawn back in for one last job — doesn’t deserve the space it would take up in your brain. Which is a sad statement, given the role it could play in Ke Huy Quan's comeback.
From Companion to Ex Machina, Hollywood is robot-obsessed. Should we be afraid?
Right up to this week with Companion, the warning that robots are a bad idea is an entrenched part of cinema. But just how close are we to a robot-infused society? And how accurate is Hollywood's picture of our robot future?