Arts&Culture (09/13/23)
Music educator Michelle Nikki Junia is CCP president
EARLY childhood educator and performing artist Michelle Nikki Junia was recently elected to be the president ad...
More writers sue OpenAI for copyright infringement over AI training
A GROUP of US authors, including Pulitzer Prize winner Michael Chabon, has sued OpenAI in federal court in San Francisco, accusing the Microsoft-backed program...
Belgium premiers opera casting Cassandra as climate change scientist
BRUSSELS — Belgium’s national opera house has premiered Cassandra, an original score recasting the mythical figure of a doomed prophetess as a climate change...
Roman-era swords, likely Jewish rebel booty, unearthed in Israel
JERUSALEM — Four 1,900-year-old swords, complete with wooden and leather scabbards, have been discovered in a remote cave in an Israeli desert, leading archaeologists...
Archaeologists unearth 1,000-year-old mummy in Peru residential neighborhood
LIMA — Archaeologists in Peru have unearthed a 1,000-year-old mummy in the latest discovery at an archaeological site located in a residential neighborhood of...
Ghibli’s Miyazaki has ideas for next project after The Boy and the Heron
TORONTO — Studio Ghibli’s legendary director, Hayao Miyazaki, 82, still has not put his pencil down, an executive at the Japanese animation studio said...
Dicks: The Musical brings laughs to Toronto film festival
TORONTO — During a Toronto International Film Festival (TIFF) expected to lack star power, Bowen Yang brought excitement to the burgeoning crowd at the...
Lil Nas X says documentary captures end of an era, start of new one
TORONTO — American rapper and song writer Lil Nas X hopes his fans get to the “real me,” behind the stage persona through his...
Nickelback reclaims the narrative at documentary TIFF premiere
TORONTO — Rock band Nickelback heard you through the years of condemnation. Their response lies in their new documentary Hate to Love: Nickelback.
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The Nun II successfully subverts the classic exorcism movie – a priest explains how
By Helen Hall
THE NUN II is an arresting piece of storytelling which satisfies and subverts audience expectations in equal measure. On one level, it is an extremely watchable piece of action horror, comfortably divorced from reality. The demon from the previous film has resurfaced and is now stalking a group of thoroughly likeable characters in a French boarding school.
Entertainment News (09/12/23)
Sneak previews for Concrete Utopia
South Korean disaster thriller Concrete Utopia, starring Lee Byung-hun, Park Seo-jun, and Park Bo-young, has arrived in Philippine theaters early...
Good news for Parrotheads: New Jimmy Buffett album coming soon
LOS ANGELES -- The final album recorded by late “Margaritaville” singer Jimmy Buffett will be released in November, his record label said on Friday...