The White Ribbon
‘I don’t know if the story I want to tell you is entirely true,’ confesses the narrator at the opening of Michael…
This article was produced by a writer from the Damaris Trust.
‘I don’t know if the story I want to tell you is entirely true,’ confesses the narrator at the opening of Michael…
A review of the film The Odd Life of Timothy Green.
The colour red suffuses We Need to Talk About Kevin. Red paint is smeared across walls and car window screens, red jam oozes out of…
M (Judi Dench) is nothing if not pragmatic. Before the opening credits of Skyfall have even rolled, she has allowed not one, but two of her…
According to the Romans, ‘bread and circuses’ were the key to keeping a population content. As long as their immediate physical…
There are many people who will have switched off during the first five minutes of Skins, E4’s notorious wild-child. The show is…
A review of the film Les Misérables.
Perhaps a society truly becomes lost when it doesn't know how lost it is. This is the eerie suggestion put forward by Never Let Me Go,…
How do you begin to tell stories about a war which claimed more than fifteen million lives? For children's author Michael Morpurgo, the…