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

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

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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…

The statistics are every bit as mind-boggling as the spectacle. A reported budget of $280,000,000 makes James Cameron’s Avatar one of…

Towards the end of God on Trial, broadcast on Wednesday 3rd September 2008 on BBC2, a group of Auschwitz prisoners concluded that God was…

Please note that the content of this talk partially overlaps that of Jerry Root’s other talk entitled 'C.S. Lewis’s Approach to…

Cricket is the new football, or so they say. This year’s [2005] Ashes Test Series between England and Australia has defined the…