Entertainment

Ryan Gosling is moving behind the camera to direct his Drive co-star Christina Hendricks in How to Catch a Monster. The Oscar nominee wrote the film, which is described as a "fantasy noir.

John Stockfish, bass player on Gordon Lightfoot hits such as Sundown, Black Day in July and Song for a Winter's Night, has died at age 69. Stockfish died Aug. 20 of natural causes at his home in Windsor, Ont., his daughter, Jennifer Stockfish, said.

Times Colonist reviewers Amy Smart, Adrian Chamberlain and Cory Ruf are covering the Victoria Fringe Theatre Festival, running through Sunday. All critiques use a five-star grading system. What: Temple of Khaos: A Modern Myth When: Sept.

The era of GTL is ending on MTV with the upcoming season of popular reality-TV show Jersey Shore and its catchphrase "gym, tan, laundry," the cable TV network said Thursday.

Michael Keaton is joining the cast of the upcoming remake of Paul Verhoeven's 1987 cult classic, RoboCop, for MGM and Columbia Pictures, MGM announced. Keaton will play the CEO of the corporation that builds RoboCop.

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Hasselhoff scores for Piranha 3DD gem, but other films have plenty of corkers, as well

The wife of Steve Franken says the veteran film and television actor has died. Jean Franken says her husband, who starred in the 1960s TV series The Many Loves of Dobie Gillis and as the drunken waiter in the film The Party, died Aug.

Getting a head start on the holiday weekend, the Weinstein Co.'s bootlegger drama Lawless opened with $1.1 million Wednesday.

A documentary with newly released historic footage will trace the Rolling Stones' 50-year journey from teenagers to rock icons, publicists for the band said Thursday.