Naughty Bits in Beowulf (2007)

September 16, 2015

I didn’t see Beowulf in a cinema, so I missed out on the eye-popping spectacle of a 3-D naked Angelina Jolie, …

Madame Ovary: The Hysterical Literature Project

July 29, 2015

Trust me to discover something cool online by reading a paper mag. But it was in Vanity Fair that I read …

November 25, 2014

Here is my list, collected from blunders on Twitter, where “Ciarán Hinds” is often confused with some other actor (I exclude the benighted Ebay …

March 12, 2014

April Ferry, who designed the costumes for HBO’s Rome, was recently honored with a well-deserved Lifetime Achievement award by the …

December 4, 2013

My favorite Jane Austen novel is always the one I’m reading at the time, but Persuasion has a special place …