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What a solo production of Shakespeare’s Macbeth can teach us about the perils of AI
Evan Buliung stars in an AI-inspired take on the Bard’s tragedy at Crow’s Theatre
Ghoulish comedy Victorian Psycho offers bloodlust with your bonnets
The reimagining of American Psycho rings hollow, letting comedic moments undercut the horror
Manic thriller How to Rob a Bank is to Heat what Red Bull is to merlot
The YouTube heist movie tries to make a statement about online culture but ultimately falls flat
Zak Jones, Robert Moor win top prizes at Writers’ Trust of Canada Awards
Zak Jones, who won the $70,000 Atwood Gibson Writers’ Trust Fiction Prize for his debut novel 'Fancy Gap,' say…
Toronto’s Reel Asian film festival marks 30 years with a renewed call for change
This year’s festival also celebrates long-time executive director Deanna Wong, who is leaving the organization
‘I was an open wound’: How Jordan Firstman went from Club Kid to Oscar contender
Ahead of his directorial debut, the comedian opens up about the pressures of filmmaking, his partying past and…
Zak Jones, Robert Moor among Writers’ Trust prize winners
Country’s most generous literary event gave away more than $400,000 to Canadian writers on Tuesday
Glossy and safe Stallone biopic I Play Rocky doesn’t go the distance
Anthony Ippolito delivers a convincing performance but Peter Farrelly’s polished biopic lacks the grit and hea…
With new album Carnaval De Luz, a humbled U2 gets back to the real thing
Sonically and musically, fans of the Irish quartet get what could be called the greatest hits
All The Cows Are Dead is a melt-in-your-mouth new musical about meat
Mike Nadajewski and Taylor Garwood star in Ben Page’s exceptional musical about the circle of life – and the s…
Why you should ditch your phone at an art gallery or museum
Museums have spent years trying to compete with the smartphone, but they offer something different: They teach…
Canada’s war monuments highlighted in Nova Scotia photographer’s new book
Len Wagg’s ‘At Home and Beyond: Honouring Canada’s War Dead,’ tells stories of people who care for war monumen…
Being obsessed with Angine de Poitrine is my microtonal math-rock midlife crisis
The Quebecois duo – now trio? – has a certain appeal to middle aged dads like myself
Circus artist and cancer patient Shana Carroll considers the dangers of falling
Autobiographical show The Attic considers Carroll’s trapeze ambition and midlife illness
Marie Antoinette at 20: A new documentary by Sofia Coppola’s mother reveals a young filmmaker’s ambition
The film, with its pink pastels and Converse shoes, remains Coppola’s most ambitious film
A book club for one: Why I collect every Booker Prize-winning hardcover on my shelf
I’ve never been disappointed by a winner. My collection has exposed me to literature that is as eclectic as it…
Parlance of our Times: ‘Dupe’
When dupe culture meets cultural dupes, as seen lately in TV and movies, things get really confusing
With his new album of Canadiana, Bryan Adams is waking up the commentators
How’s It Goin’ includes elbows-up anthem 51st State and protest song Lake Ontario
How Heated Rivalry’s famous nightclub scene came to life
A deep dive into how Jacob Tierney and his crew got that champagne look on a beer budget
The Globe and Mail Bestsellers for the week of Nov. 7
The Bestsellers Lists are compiled by The Globe and Mail from information provided by BookNet Canada’s nationa…
Alanis Morissette mixes melancholia with mistletoe in first-ever holiday album
Good Weather for Immaculate Conception has carols, covers and two new original songs
I Kill the Bear: Jared Keeso’s new Crave comedy has Brad Pitt and Chad Kroeger – but is stuck on Woke 1.0
Beyond the quirky celebrity casting, I Kill the Bear is Keeso’s most openly political or philosophical show to…
Adam Cohen’s tribute concerts to his father are a ‘powerful panacea’ against estate litigation ugliness
Exactly 10 years after Leonard Cohen’s death, the Canadian artist will be honoured by his son and grandson at …
Our Little Secret is an extraordinary story of donor conception – with plenty of room to grow
Noam Tomaschoff’s solo musical is seductive in premise but surprisingly cloying in execution
Comedian Russell Brand found guilty of rape and sexual assaults
He now faces jail and potentially further action as police say he is still under investigation for two other a…
What to watch this weekend: Gobsmacked by You Can See Everything? Try these films next
The Voice of Hind Rajab and Possible Love stream on Crave and Netflix
CBC to broaden personal finance programming with launch of CBC Money
Public broadcaster hiring 16 journalists for the unit, which will feature new and existing content dedicated t…
Hindu epic Ramayana: Rise of a Legend is a mishmash global blockbuster
Ancient story gets the big-budget treatment, for better and for worse
Books we’re reading and loving this week
Globe and Mail staffers and readers share their favourites reads of the month
Small Prophets creator Mackenzie Crook cooks up comedies – and crafts homunculi – in his own shed
Half-hour comedy about an amateur alchemist, streaming on Apple TV, was BBC’s most-watched new scripted show l…
Wild Horse Nine lets John Malkovich be the best John Malkovich he can Malkovich
Malkovich’s performance elevates Martin McDonagh’s picture from chin-scratching curiosity to something awards-…
Thélyson Orélien, and why AI detectors are almost never wrong
Models like Claude and ChatGPT tend to produce distinct patterns, in the same way that iambic pentameter and s…
Canada joins coalition refusing to play ice hockey against Russia over Ukraine war
Growing number of countries are resisting Russia’s reintegration into international hockey after a sports cour…
National Ballet’s Romeo and Juliet is a thrilling, daredevil vision of first love
Company, which is marking 75 years, first performed John Cranko’s version in 1964
If you’re curious about how Canada fared during the Harper era, you’ll want to read this book
The former PM’s new memoir, Here for Canada, has some glaring omissions but reminds us of some vital lessons
bbno$, Slayyyter and Josh Ramsay of Marianas Trench Will be Guest Judges on 'Canada's Drag Race' Season 7
Two Canadian stars and the 'worst girl in America' will help judge the country's biggest drag face-off. The tr…
Entrepreneurs take over beloved Vancouver Kidsbooks as it celebrates 43 years: ‘We know special when we see it’
Avni Patel Thompson takes inspiration from her parenting startups to add Amazon-level convenience to the belov…
Bow before the power of Godzilla Minus Zero, king of all kaiju epics
The brain-rattling spectacle demands to be seen on the largest screen possible
How Godzilla Minus Zero’s Takashi Yamazaki super-sized his new monster mash
The sequel to the writer/director’s acclaimed Godzilla Minus One opens on Nov. 6
Galloway accuser not wholly responsible for fallout from allegations, lawyer argues
Steven Galloway alleges the woman and other defendants defamed him by publishing unproven allegations