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?

Margaret Atwood is one of the most important and influential writers alive today. Her fiction explores and reflects the current cultural…

An examination of a life falling apart in the film 'Locke'.

The most recent strain of Brontemania, at large throughout 2011, included major film versions of Jane Eyre and Wuthering Heights and the…

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…

A review of the Oscar winning film 'Gravity' considers the themes of isolation, death, sacrifice and rebirth.

I'm not sure exactly what makes someone a phenomenon, but anyone who has managed to win 62 music awards in two years and has produced a…

“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…