Horror and 3D
Rachel Helen Smith considers two recent developments in film: horror and 3D. Karl Marx famously claimed, "Religion is the opiate of the…
Rachel Helen Smith (née Thorpe) is a writer based in Cambridge, UK.
Rachel Helen Smith considers two recent developments in film: horror and 3D. Karl Marx famously claimed, "Religion is the opiate of the…
Why does the desire to be young again continually re-appear in contemporary culture? What is a Christian response?
In The Writing on the Wall, Maggi Dawn sets about doing what John Stott called "double listening" – "it means that we’re called…
Reality TV now seems to be everywhere. What does it tell us about what is real and what is true? And what does it say about God?
What can we learn from the current obsession for nostalgia?
A review of the Oscar winning film 'Gravity' considers the themes of isolation, death, sacrifice and rebirth.
Margaret Atwood is one of the most important and influential writers alive today. Her fiction explores and reflects the current cultural…
Vincent Van Gogh is now a solid fixture in our cultural vocabulary. I need only mention sunflowers or a bandaged ear to conjure up his life…
“It takes a worried man to sing a worried song.” So croons popular singer Paolo Nutini in a song on his latest album Sunny Side…