Arts

Summer at the Cinema: How Japanese horror Ringu revealed the curse of adulthood

Stratford Festival 2019: In Wajdi Mouawad’s Birds of a Kind, nothing succeeds like excess

’Easy Rider’ star, 1960s icon Peter Fonda dies at 79

Comedian Jimmy Kimmel promises to visit Dildo, N.L., after being named ‘honourary mayor’

Xavier Dolan on the long life, death, and resurrection of The Death and Life of John F. Donovan

New movies in theatres this week, including the poignant Mine 9, the formlessly entertaining The Angry Birds Movie 2 and the sloppy Where’d You Go, Bernadette

Mine 9 is a claustrophobic, poignant tale of survival

The Angry Birds Movie 2 is just a smidge better than Baby Shark, and in the last days of summer, that’s all we can ask for

The Superbad-for-tweens Good Boys isn’t super or bad, although Jacob Tremblay’s agent might disagree

Cliff Cardinal’s special for SummerWorks Performance Festival goes to dark places

Ann Snitow, 76, was a feminist writer who turned an analytical – even critical – eye toward feminism

With odd-ball antics, Cold Case Hammarskjold heats up a chilling conspiracy long forgotten

Humboldt crash survivors featured in CBC documentary want to make their ‘angels’ proud

Blinded by the Light is not the Boss of Bruce Springsteen movies, though it is solid middle-management

After the Wedding is the Julianne Moore-Bart Freundlich collaboration no one outside the Moore-Freundlich household asked for

47 Meters Down: Uncaged would jump the shark, if it could imagine something half that entertaining

LA Opera to investigate Placido Domingo over multiple sexual harassment accusations

Henri Belolo co-founded the disco group Village People

From Marvel to memoirs: superhero star Simu Liu to publish book on his life

The Globe and Mail: The Musical? Reprint turns our old news into song and dance rather than fishwrap

Multiple women accuse opera singer Placido Domingo of sexual harassment

CBS and Viacom announce deal to reunite

Meta-comedy Spice It Up is its own bizarre and compelling act of self-plagiarism

A brand-new theatre, Colm Feore and Spamalot: How the Stratford Festival reboots in 2020

Shaw Festival 2019: Howard Barker’s Victory reveals the British playwright as all bark, no bite

Resistance reading: Colson Whitehead’s Nickel Boys and black authorship of Jim Crow South

‘I wanted to become a film star’: Pakistani actor Mahira Khan on catapulting into Pakistani film industry

‘When I’m not in motion, I guess I’ll be dead’: Dance icon Louise Lecavalier on her quest for perfection

The Woodstock generation reflects on the legacy of a cultural touchstone

Frank Dukes collaborates with students from Toronto’s Regent Park School of Music to create 11-track compilation called Parkscapes

Halloween treat: upcoming Frankenstein ballet