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What happens when Taylor Swift’s Eras Tour comes to town?
Are reality shows keeping their contestants safe, and what X looks like post-election
What the Grammy nominations tell us about pop music right now, and the Megan Thee Stallion documentary
Heretic gives us a sinister Hugh Grant, and Somebody Somewhere's final season
Filmmaker Steve McQueen tackles race and class in World War II film Blitz
What Yellowstone tells us about America right now
Tyler the Creator at the top of his game, and My Dead Mom
What Trump's win says about pop culture's role in Presidential races
The brilliance of Quincy Jones
Kamala Harris on SNL, Tom Hanks's new film Here and the Hallmark Christmas movie season has started
Three CBC defenders respond to calls to defund the CBC
Tony Hinchcliffe and mixing comedy and politics, and Indigenous horror
Three critics on the future of the CBC
The legacy of Vince Carter, and the backlash to WWE's Bad Blood
Beyonce at the Kamala Harris rally, and a new Martha Stewart documentary
Does the Vatican thriller Conclave preach to our times, and Hasan Minhaj's Netflix special
The horror movies haunting our spooky season
Why Andrew Garfield's sincerity is working
Anora is already an Oscar frontrunner, and Fan Bingbing’s return to acting
How The Daily Wire's film Am I Racist? shapes the culture war, and Han Kang's translation
How Liam Payne's death has been covered
Two Palestinian artists reflect on how the war has affected their art
Dragons' Den goes viral over boba tea, and Culinary Class Wars
Who gets to claim Fred Perry? And The Franchise
K-os's iconic album Joyful Rebellion turns 20
Alfonso Cuaron's new show Disclaimer is finally here, and Ali Wong's new special
Kamala's interview on Call Her Daddy, and the Slow Horses finale
The Tragically Hip docuseries and who defines the legacy of the Hip
Mustafa's new album, Dunya, is a masterpiece
Jewish creators reflect on Oct. 7 and how art shapes memory
The film Saturday Night, and SNL's ongoing identity crisis
Wrestling with Vince McMahon's legacy, and The Death Tour brings wrestling to the north
Ellen DeGeneres' farewell to comedy, and the steamy new medical drama Doctor Odyssey
How the TV series So Long, Marianne reimagines the muse, and a new South Asian category at the Junos
How Indigenous Futurism is changing the conversation
Megalopolis is divisive, and the return of George Clooney and Brad Pitt
What the Diddy allegations mean for the music industry, and the allure of The Wild Robot
What Will & Harper gets right, and how Sally Rooney became a brand
Trudeau's late-night TV debut with Stephen Colbert, and the adaptation of My Brilliant Friend
Mr. Beast's reality show is a mess, and the dominance of Penguin Random House
How The Substance tackles aging in Hollywood, and Katy Perry's messy album rollout
The exploitation of Black artists, and recycled red carpet looks
HBO's The Penguin is finally here, and LL Cool J's new album
How an onstage fight ended the Jane's Addiction reunion tour, and how is Raygun ranked No.1?
Highlights from the 2024 Emmys, and a surprising winner at TIFF
Beyoncé’s CMA snub, Kendrick at the Super Bowl, Linkin Park’s new singer
TIFF in 12: The controversy over the Russians at War documentary
TIFF in 12: The profound horniness of Babygirl, and the dilemma of Canadian movies
The eliminated Juno categories, and The Perfect Couple on Netflix
TIFF In 12: How body horror shows up in films like Nightbitch, The Substance, and The Shrouds
Why the U.S. presidential debate made for great TV, and Taylor Swift's endorsement of Kamala
What the Netflix movie Rebel Ridge gets right, and the fight to release The Apprentice
TIFF in 12: Emilia Pérez is the surprise at the festival, and The Bibi Files documentary
How APTN changed Indigenous film and television
TIFF In 12: Rad & Teri's chaotic weekend, Anora, and Paying For It
What you need to know about TIFF 2024, and Beetlejuice returns
The controversy surrounding ELLE Canada’s list of influential Canadian women
The English Teacher tackles woke culture in the classroom, and a new era in MILF cinema
The brilliance of Pachinko, and champion eaters Chestnut and Kobayashi go head-to-head
All the fall TV shows you need to know
Why is Ronald Reagan so hard to capture in film? And, Only Murders in the Building returns
The Paralympic Games start in Paris, and Netflix's Worst Ex Ever
What we can learn from the end of Bennifer 2.0, and the surprising history of Krautrock
Don't look back in anger: the Oasis reunion is happening. How we got here.
Why don't men read fiction, and are the Gwyneth Paltrow ski trial plays actually good?
The Crow reboot, and what Lil Jon, Jason Isbell and the DNC performances mean for the election
How racism shows up on book covers and what this says about the publishing industry
Chappell Roan, Halsey, and when fan culture goes too far
Looking back on the legacy of daytime TV pioneer Phil Donahue
Anna Marie Tendler's new memoir digs deep into her own mental health and past relationships
Post Malone's turn towards country music, and the Eras Tour resumes again
The backlash towards that John Krasinski Rogers ad, and Tyler Perry's latest film
The rise and fall of 90s TV psychic Miss Cleo, and the Kneecap movie
It Ends With Us and the Colleen Hoover fandom, and Industry’s season 3
A star-studded Olympics wrap
Why celebrities are celebrating Vybz Kartel's prison release
Will Kamala's Hollywood glow hurt her on election day, and the prison drama Sing Sing
Dirty Pop doc and the fraud behind your favourite 90s boy bands
House of the Dragon finale, and why everyone is talking about Didi
How The Matrix shaped our relationship to technology and politics
Some fans are mad that Robert Downey Jr. is back as Doctor Doom. Will it pay off for Marvel?
How Cigarettes After Sex became the cult band of the moment,and why surfing is so boring to watch on TV
How streaming and TikTok have changed the Olympics
Commotion Introduces | Olympic FOMO: Canada's Golden Girls
NewJeans, Hybe, and the battle at the heart of K-pop, and Rema's new album HEIS
How Miranda July's All Fours became the book of the summer, and College Football 25
Can Deadpool and Wolverine end the Marvel slump? And the return of the Olympics
Childish Gambino's new album, and a look at Donald Glover's career
Apple's streaming service has the best shows, why is no one watching? And K-pop goes primetime
Kamala Harris and the meme campaign, and breakdancing at the Olympics
Twisters makes Glen Powell a star, and the millennial midlife crisis
The photo of Trump’s assassination attempt, in pop culture and memes
Katy Perry's botched comeback, and the New York Times best books of the 21st century
Dozens of Canadian writers protest the Giller Prize’s relationship with Scotiabank
Eminem's legacy and the death of Slim Shady
American politics is broken, what's the role of late night and political satirists?
Is Nicolas Cage's Longlegs the scariest movie of the year so far?
Kendrick Lamar's Not Like Us video, and Hollywood turning its back on Biden
Like many of her characters, Alice Munro betrayed her own daughter
How Despicable Me became a juggernaut franchise, and Emma Stone's freak era continues in Kinds of Kindness