National Entertainment

TORONTO — Readers used to rely on a cadre of cultural tastemakers for book recommendations. But nowadays, platforms like Goodreads can generate individualized reading lists in a matter of milliseconds.

TORONTO — Like the NHL, EA Sports was forced to adapt to the pandemic. While the league opted to finish out its season in a bubble, the video game developer moved to remote production.

NEW YORK — The studio behind the kids’ mega-hit TV show “Paw Patrol” has a new animated series that arrives timed perfectly for a global pandemic: It celebrates delivery people.

MONTREAL — Last April, Malcolm Angell, a 46-year-old New Zealander who moved to Montreal to work in the city’s famed visual effects industry, was taken to hospital after attempting suicide.

BOGOTA — With her pink cardigan and thick glasses, “Toothless Cindy” is becoming a musical sensation on Colombian public transport.

TORONTO — Veteran journalist Peter Mansbridge says media organizations will have to "really look hard" at the way they do their jobs, after another U.S. presidential election that caught many newsrooms off-guard.

Kylie Minogue, “DISCO" (BMG) It’s always a sure thing with Kylie Minogue — fun and great grooves that is.

Lesley Manville doesn’t show up until about halfway through the slow-burn, '60s-set Western “Let Him Go," but the arrival of the platinum blonde Blanche Weboy is worth the wait.

NEW YORK — The Grammy Awards have changed the name of their best world music album category to the best global music album, an attempt to find “a more relevant, modern and inclusive term.

Superman, that boring lug, has thankfully flown the coop.