“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…

Mark Meynell is disoriented by the reality-probing of Sum: Forty Tales from the Afterlives. There are three deaths. The first is when…

This helpful summary of philosopher Charles Taylor's work examines what it means to live in a secular age.

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

James Bond has been in the spying business for such a long time that he really ought to be up for a long-service award. But the…

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

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,…

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:…

The Shawshank Redemption has earned a reputation for being one of the most popular films of all time. Despite an unimpressive performance…