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

By Bruce Handy•Photograph سے طرف کی 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 سے طرف کی 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 محفوظ 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, گٹار in hand, for a free-floating tour of the inner Depp.

By Patti Smith•Photograph سے طرف کی Annie Leibovitz•Styled سے طرف کی Jessica Diehl
February 2011

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