National Entertainment

Sixteen years have passed since Shaw Connolly’s teenage sister, Thea, slipped out of their family home in rural Maine to party with friends and never came home.

Take your average wedding flick, shotgun a hostage situation into it and add some anarchic energy from Rebel Wilson and you get “Bride Hard,” which is a movie, for better or for worse. In this case, much, much worse.

TORONTO — Jagmeet Singh is saying sorry for attending one of Kendrick Lamar's Toronto concerts last week.

TORONTO — Filmmaker Shawn Levy said his recognition on Canada's Walk of Fame is a tribute to how his Canadian roots are an ongoing part of his career.

Celebrity birthdays for the week of June 22-28: June 22: Actor Klaus Maria Brandauer is 82. Journalist Brit Hume is 82. Singer Peter Asher of Peter and Gordon is 81. Singer Howard “Eddie” Kaylan of The Turtles is 78. Singer Todd Rundgren is 77.

Talking Heads fans, rejoice! Hard on the heels of the re-release of “Stop Making Sense,” the 1984 Jonathan Demme film widely considered the best concert movie ever made, Jonathan Gould has published a comprehensive biography of the seminal band that

Muriel Blossom began her fictional career as a minor character in 2008, serving as an assistant to private detective Tess Monaghan, the protagonist in twelve of Laura Lippman’s fine crime novels.

London native Shianne Brown still remembers her disbelief when she heard, half a world away, that Toronto mayor Rob Ford had been caught on video smoking crack cocaine.

LOS ANGELES (AP) — “How to Train Your Dragon” took flight at the box office this weekend, proving that some remakes still have teeth . The Universal live-action adaptation of the beloved animated franchise soared to a strong $83.

TORONTO — Even the walls of Justin Collette’s dressing room scream, “Beetlejuice, Beetlejuice, Beetlejuice.” While most theatre actors would choose a Zen-like atmosphere in their backstage quarters, Collette prefers a little anarchy.