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For anyone who didn't want to browse through the pages of Black Belt, New Witch, Modern Drunkard, Smithsonian or Cat Fancy themselves, there's been 12 years of the Magazine Reader column in the Washington Post. The writer was Peter Carlson, who retired this week.

Mark Jordan Legan reviews two films out this week: the long-awaited Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull starring Harrison Ford and the political satire War, Inc. starring John Cusack.

The Sex and the City movie is almost here, but some women feel left out of the fun. That's where FunkyBrownChick.com comes in. Creator Twanna Hines gives us an idea of what it's really like to be black, sexy, and single in the city.

Is Carrie Bradshaw, the main character in Sex and the City, a narcissist? Many — including Sarah Jessica Parker, who plays her — would say "yes" without flinching. As part of our "In Character" series, NPR's Elizabeth Blair reports, self-absorption is part of Carrie Bradshaw's charm.

A recent exhibition of photographs in France has proved controversial. The exhibit deals with the Nazi occupation of Paris, but its pictures were of apparently happy people going about their lives as normal — not a country under brutal military occupation.

The latest news from the BPP blog, including a slideshow of work by Jeremiah Palecek, a Prague-bases painter who recreates viral videos on canvas.

Sisters Anne (Natalie Portman) and Mary Boleyn (Scarlett Johansson) compete for the love of Henry VIII. For all the intrigue, Justin Chadwick's film is essentially a well-upholstered soap opera.

A mysterious transmission radiates through the city of Terminus, driving citizens into murderous mania. Shot in three parts, by three directors, the film's an intriguing experiment — but a disjointed plot makes for low entertainment value.

Kicked out of prep school, over-shrunk rich kid offers counseling — and prescription antidepressants — to his new public-school peers in a makeshift office in the boys' bathroom. An improbably charming comedy.

A governess teams up with a showgirl to amiably comic effect in this splashy period piece: Guinevere Pettigrew (Frances McDormand) is a frump who blooms, and Delysia Lafosse (Amy Adams) is, as her stage name suggests, delicious from the start.