Scarlett Rides On…

So the Oscars are over (hooray, Marty!), Nic Cage’s flaming skull is dominating the box office, and there are more than four months to go till the next Harry Potter movie. Will we actually be forced to work our way through the Danish-film section in our Netflix queue?

Fear not! March kicks off strong, with Read More

Clarice Is Claustrophobic

Jodie Foster believes in

recycling. Her screen appearances since playing agent Clarice Starling in The Silence of the Lambs have been rare;

that Oscar-winning role, by her own admission, took a lot out of her. But she

did not invest all those months in the gym, pore through all those F.B.I.

manuals learning how to Read More

Memo to Michael: Hang Up the Business Suit

The East Hampton premiere of David Fincher’s The Game , from a screenplay by John Brancato and Michael Ferris, was one of the last cultural spasms of the Hamptons summer season, and I gathered from one of the privileged invitees that Michael Douglas looked worried when it was all over. And well he might have Read More