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In actor Richard Gere's latest film, The Hoax, he plays a scam artist who gets a major book publisher to pay him a seven-figure publishing deal. It's based on the true story of Clifford Irving, who claimed to be a Howard Hughes biographer. It's now out on DVD.

Josh Brolin, who plays laconic Llewelyn Moss in the much-praised new Coen Brothers thriller No Country for Old Men, talks about his appetite for surprising characters and working with the filmmaking brothers.

Writer and producer Ed Burns draws on his experience as a former Baltimore detective to create the acclaimed HBO series The Wire, now in its fifth and final season. It's a crime drama with a central theme of surveillance technology used to capture drug dealers.

In Tamara Jenkins' new film, two 40-something siblings learn to deal with their elderly father's dementia. The film — it's a comedy — stars Philip Seymour Hoffman and Laura Linney. Jenkins' previous film work includes The Slums of Beverly Hills.

The film, about an animated princess thrust unprepared into the gritty reality of New York City, is what happens when wised-up meets happily-ever-after. Amy Adams is the indispensable star.

India is planning its first museum celebrating the writer Rudyard Kipling. A bungalow in Bombay, where Kipling was born and lived until he was nearly 6, is being restored to house a hoped-for collection of associated memorabilia.

Director Jake Kasdan woke up one night knowing suddenly that his next film would be a fake music biopic called Walk Hard. He cast John C. Reilly as Dewey Cox, the putative legend who has trouble with women and drugs — and who tries on a multitude of musical personalities.

Andrea talks with our Cultural Concierge, Jesse Kornbluth. This week Kornbluth wants everyone to watch the 1938 Russian film Alexander Nevsky, which he says has one of the greatest soundtracks in film history.

Dramatist Martin McDonagh (The Pillowman) has been called a "stage Tarantino"; with In Bruges, his feature-film debut, he's left two Irish hit men at large in the picturesque Belgian city — and created some moments that are pretty picturesque themselves.

Captain Ahab, who led the ill-fated quest for Melville's great white whale, Moby-Dick, may have been misunderstood. Today, it appears he has much in common with modern American leaders.