According to the Romans, ‘bread and circuses’ were the key to keeping a population content. As long as their immediate physical…

Dom Cobb (Leonardo DiCaprio) is a very unusual sort of criminal. Along with the pragmatic Arthur (Joseph Gordon-Levitt), he is paid to…

A review of the film Les Misérables.

How do you begin to tell stories about a war which claimed more than fifteen million lives? For children's author Michael Morpurgo, the…

A review of the recent Sherlock Holmes films and BBC TV series.

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,…

There are many people who will have switched off during the first five minutes of Skins, E4’s notorious wild-child. The show is…