Arts & Entertainment

By Cotton Delo

Part thriller, part police procedural, “Dexter”’s a title character that is just as hard to pin down as the show’s genre. He’s a prolific serial killer who avenges the crimes of Mafiosi and drug dealers who fall through the cracks of Miami’s legal system by strapping them to a gurney and collecting slides of their blood for trophies before he butchers them.

For Ben Affleck, “Gone Baby Gone” is a return to his hometown of Boston, and to a behind-the-scenes role for the superstar actor, known mostly for his romances and box office flops. Since he won the Oscar in 1997 for co-writing “Good Will Hunting” with Matt Damon, Affleck has stayed in front of the camera, with mixed success. But now, in his latest role – that of director – Affleck is again generating Oscar buzz.

Since she first burst onto the scene in 1987, Sinead O’Connor has never been afraid to take on controversial topics both on and off the stage. This week, the outspoken singer returns to New York to promote her latest double album, “Theology”. From her home in Dublin – the singer who once shredded an image of the pope on TV – talked with the Resident about religion, God, and the difference between the two. —Heather Corcoran

By David Germain

Like Vin Diesel’s “The Pacifier,” Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson’s “The Game Plan” aims to turn an action-movie bruiser into a benign father figure.

Photographer Terry O’Neill has made a career from a level of celebrity access that most photographers can only dream of. Long before paparazzi and tabloids took over, O’Neill elegantly captured revealing and candid moments in the lives of his famous subjects.

By Christy Lemire

You hear that a movie like “3:10 to Yuma” is being remade and the immediate reaction is, “Why?”

The 1957 Western, about an intellectual outlaw and the indebted rancher who’s volunteered to help deliver him to prison, was solid and still holds up well today.

By Ethan Gilsdorf

Chain smoking cigarettes in his tiny trailer, David Carradine stripped off his pants and shirt, revealing a silver necklace, a pierced belly button, and a faded tattoo of a dragon wrapping around his back.

Sexy Opera Stars Heat Up Staid Productions

By Philip Chaffee

At Opera Colorado in Denver, a recent production of Handel’s “Julius Caesar” was updated into the 1930s, with Cleopatra looking more like a gorgeous Claudette Colbert and Caesar like General Patton.

By Beth Hillman

A bespectacled woman sits on a rusty tractor in Nebraska holding a sign that reads, in boxy green letters, “Anni Holm.”

A bald man in dark sunglasses stands on a deserted Chicago street, lifting a yellow placard with the words “Anni Holm” in huge purple type.

Can ‘Brave One’ Star Jodie Foster Stay on A-List?

By Ian Spelling

Jodie Foster isn’t one of those actresses who turn up in every other movie. In fact, the two-time Oscar winner rarely appears in more than a film a year and occasionally even lets a couple of years go by without letting anyone see her name on a theater marquee. So it’s something of an event when Foster – who, unbelievably, will turn 45 years old on Nov. 19 – does in fact make a movie. Her latest project, the first since Spike Lee’s audacious “Inside Man” in early 2006, is “The Brave One,” which promises to be at least as controversial as it will be commercial.