How can we be transformed through suffering? Surprisingly, the eighties cult film The Karate Kid offers some insights. If you're unfamiliar…

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.…

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…

Bill Maher, a well-known American comedian, satirist and religious sceptic has added this comedy-documentary to the growing number of…

A review of the book and film of Watchmen.

Khaled Hosseini’s best-selling novel The Kite Runner, set in the author’s homeland Afghanistan, became a Hollywood blockbuster…

To my mind, one of the main interests of Philip Pullman’s controversial trilogy is not specifically related to the books. It lies in…

A review of the film The Bourne Ultimatum.