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

An old lady in a headscarf is buying a pint of milk in a local shop. She’s surprised by the price of the milk, and disturbed by the…

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…

The second of the two films adapted from J.K. Rowling’s final Harry Potter novel begins at the place where the first left us hanging:…

A review of Doctor Who, Series 4 starring David Tennant and Catherine Tate.

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,…

One of the many changes which the Internet has brought into our lives is that it is remarkably easy to masquerade as something we're not.…

How do we know who or what to trust? This is one of the key questions of the world we live in today. So many claims compete for our trust:…

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