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

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

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

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A review of J.J. Abrams' Star Trek film.

A review of the book and film of Watchmen.

A review of The X-Files: I Want to Believe.

It seems like we can't do without God; or anyway something like him. 'In each of us there is an empty hole in the shape of God', said…