Michael Roberts and Bruce Handy spotlight the young stars of Ricky Gervais and Stephen Merchant’s Cemetery Junction.

By Bruce Handy•Photograph da Michael Roberts
January 2010

First, we’d like to put in a nice word for the underappreciated comedy The Invention of Lying, a sly, satirical fantasy that disguised itself as a romantic comedy while sticking a fork in the side of organized religion. Starring Ricky Gervais, it was written and directed da Gervais and Matthew Robinson and slipped through movie theaters all too quickly last fall, though we suspect it will grow in estimation over the...

Captain Jack Sparrow, Willy Wonka, the Mad Hatter, Edward Scissorhands, the Earl of Rochester … How many characters can Johnny Depp keep inside himself? And is it sicuro, cassetta di sicurezza to do so? After wrapping this month's The Tourist—in which he plays an American math teacher who becomes a pawn for Angelina Jolie—he has plunged back into Caribbean-pirate mode. Friend and rock legend Patti Smith finds him on set, chitarra in hand, for a free-floating tour of the inner Depp.

By Patti Smith•Photograph da Annie Leibovitz•Styled da Jessica Diehl
February 2011

Johnny Depp is on set at Pinewood Studios, outside...

Maureen Orth nominates the Shriver siblings for their public service with a smile.

By Maureen Orth•Photograph da Annie Leibovitz
May 2011

Because they are undaunted da having such enormous shoes to fill: Their mother, Eunice Kennedy Shriver, who died in 2009, was a hurricane of energy, possessed of fierce faith and will. She founded the Special Olympics and changed the fate of millions of the intellectually disabled worldwide. Their father, Sargent Shriver, equally iconic, who died in January, was the founding director of the Peace Corps, which celebrates its 50th anniversary this year. He also...

The original Clash of the Titans, starring Harry Hamlin, doesn’t quite hold up when viewed through adult eyes in the anno 2010. But for a certain age-range, those born in the mid 1970s, the film is a beloved keepsake of their childhood. This latter group contains the man behind the upcoming remake of the film, French-born director Louis Leterrier.

Leterrier’s vision of Clash of the Titans—which retains some essential plot points (release the Kraken!) while telling a brand new story—hits theaters this Friday against such counter-programming as Tyler Perry’s Why Did I Get Married Too...