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Some guidelines on how to run a film discussion evening and how to choose a suitable film.

Margaret Atwood is one of the most important and influential writers alive today. Her fiction explores and reflects the current cultural…

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

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

Examine the role played by Christianity in the Magna Carta.

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