Most Hollywood actors keep quiet about the drama behind the scenes. Not John Leguizamo.

If you were planning to buy all your art textbooks at Pages in September, you might want to push your purchase plans forward a few weeks.

The ads are right: Borat was so 2006. And so, I fear, is Sacha Baron Cohen.

If all the idol worship surrounding Valentino Garavani doesn’t seem a little fascist at first, just wait until the moment in Valentino: The Last Emperor when Vogue editor André Leon Talley exults, “It’s a triumph of the will.” Talley may be describing Valentino’s lavish 45th-anniversary collection and gala, but he’s also inadvertently citing Leni Riefenstahl’s infamous Nazi propaganda film.

Larry Doyle’s novel I Love You, Beth Cooper is a marvellous work of subversion and deconstruction, tracking the destruction and mayhem that ensue when a nerdy valedictorian turns his graduation address into a profession of love for a head cheerleader who doesn’t even know he exists.

There’s a “perennial unwillingness to come to terms with the premature or violent death of heroes,’’ Jonathan Sumption wrote in the New York Review of Books. True.

For 15 straight years, the punk rock caravan known as the Warped Tour has travelled the world with continued success, paying little attention to changing tastes and trends in music.

Video, once the most naked and bare-bones practice, has morphed into something entirely different. Layer upon layer of visual art and cinema references build up until the screen becomes as opaque as a painting.