A review of the film Les Misérables.

The dwarves have all the best songs. Whether they are singing raucous ditties about smashing Bilbo’s best crockery or low, mournful…

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…

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

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

I watched The Grey the other night, and thought it was disturbing, haunting, devoid of hope and the best film I'd seen in a long time. The…

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

When people asked me what I studied at university and I told them, there were often a number of generic reactions. Inevitably, I would be…

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