Go to The Globe and Mail

 

Arts

Now Playing

A scene from the comedy Bruno about a gay Austrian fashion reporter starring Sasha Baron Cohen.

Brüno

2 Stars

Putting the slap back in slapstick

Scene from THE HURT LOCKER, directed by Kathryn Bigelow.

The Hurt Locker

4 Stars

A white-knuckle ride with the bomb boys in Baghdad

Il Divo

3 Stars

Razzle-dazzle meets exuberant nastiness

Valentino: The Last Emperor

2 Stars

Just a designer who loves ‘my beauty'

I Love You Beth Cooper

2 Stars

A dated teen comedy parents will love

Paul McCartney performs during his open air concert on the Halifax Commons.

Thousands gather for McCartney concert

Former Beatle's lone Canadian concert of the year happening on the Halifax Common

Bruno tops weekend box-office

The Sacha Baron Cohen comedy earned $30.4-million (U.S.), finishing ahead of Ice Age: Dawn of the Dinosaurs and Transformers

Michael was murdered: Latoya

The dead singer's sister told two British newspapers that her brother was killed by conspirators after his fortune

Paul Gross aims due west

The duo behind Passchendaele are together in the western Gunless

This woman's place is behind the camera

Director Kathryn Bigelow puts the Iraq War front and centre in The Hurt Locker

A penny for your diss? Here's 50 Cent!

The rapper has a man-to-man talk with a B.C. teen who used YouTube to accuse him of selling out

Advertisement:
TV listings

Access your local programming by postal code

Exclusive Excerpt
‘They keep feeding him pills like candy'

Out next week, Ian Halperin's new book, Unmasked: The Final Years of Michael Jackson, paints a picture of the King of Pop as a lonely man ‘surrounded by enablers'

U.S. pop star Michael Jackson waves to fans as he leaves after the
Elizabeth Renzetti
For the saddened, Thriller Live is 'the right place to be'

Post-Diana, London knows how to bring on the cheesy – and the moving

Thriller Live, playing at the Lyric Theatre in London, is a tour through the highlights of Jackson’s music; a tour covered in sequins, and as air-brushed as his once-beautiful face.

Andrew Ryan
Speaking of cheap, you can watch him for free

Things are good for Brampton, Ont., export Russell Peters

Andrew Ryan.

Johanna Schneller
Let's party like it's 1939

We can only hope that bumping up the number of Academy Award best-picture nominees backfires

Johanna Schneller

Elizabeth Renzetti
Not much beats a turd and a tuna fish

Being a ‘plinther' isn't easy

elizabeth renzetti headshot

Lisa Rochon
Zen, hygge, and the art of creative architecture

When it comes to tapping into creativity, architects turn to all kinds of muses

Lisa Rochon

R.M. Vaughan
Will Leguizamo get the last laugh?

The movie star brings his stage act to the Toronto Just For Laughs festival

Richard Vaughan

Russell Smith
Exhibit A in the case of Facebook as diabolical machine

A cautionary tale about social networking sites

Russell Smith

Nestruck on Theatre
Toronto Fringe: Some last-minute Tweets

Shallow, 140-character reviews from the festival

Simon Houpt
From New York, our correspondent signs off

Our New York columnist reminisces about 10 years in the trenches of the Big Apple

Simon Houpt