National Entertainment

Will Hoge, "Tiny Little Movies” (Thirty Tigers/Edlo) An entire album of angry political anthems could be exhausting, like the daily headlines.

TORONTO — Drive-in screenings, virtual red carpets, a scaled-down slate: The curtain will still rise on this year's Toronto International Film Festival but it will be a much different affair than the usual annual movie marathon, as the COVID-19 pande

BRANSON, Mo. — Branson, Missouri, may be known for its country music shows and wholesome entertainment, but the tourist hot spot now finds itself at the centre of a standoff over Confederate symbolism.

PARIS — The “Mona Lisa” found herself all alone. The coronavirus had emptied her room at the Louvre Museum of its usual throngs of admirers.

LONDON — Bear Grylls said he was brought to tears by the determination of competitors on “World’s Toughest Race: Eco-Challenge Fiji” as they raced through jungles and over mountains to the point of exhaustion and pain.

At one point in “Irresistible,” Jon Stewart’s new political satire, a cable news anchor tosses a question to an absurdly overstuffed panel of 12 analysts, each in their own little “Brady Bunch” square.

“ Eurovision Song Contest: The Story of Fire Saga,” Will Ferrell’s goofy and highly quotable parody of the long-running European spectacle, is the first great comedy of 2020 and it couldn’t have come soon enough.

NEW YORK — Business writers Bethany McLean and Joe Nocera are collaborating on a critical take of the U.S. response to the coronavirus pandemic.

TORONTO — Vancouver's Dana Claxton was named the winner of the Scotiabank Photography Award on Wednesday.

SEOUL, Korea, Republic Of — Six decades after they returned to their homeland, traces of thousands of North Korean children orphaned by the Korean War linger for the elderly Europeans whose lives they briefly touched.