Shrove Tuesday or Pancake Day? The consumerist flip.

What can we learn from the current obsession for nostalgia?

I write a weekly column for The Dallas Morning News as a contributor to their Texas Faith blog. This week we were asked, "What would Jesus…

A review of the film The Great Gatsby.

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…

David Cronenberg built his reputation on making challenging, boundary-breaking films which explore sexuality, violence and death. So…

How do you begin to tell stories about a war which claimed more than fifteen million lives? For children's author Michael Morpurgo, the…