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…

Some thoughts about the film Prometheus and the human search for meaning.

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

Vincent Van Gogh is now a solid fixture in our cultural vocabulary. I need only mention sunflowers or a bandaged ear to conjure up his life…

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

A review of Doctor Who, Series 4 starring David Tennant and Catherine Tate.

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,…

One of the many changes which the Internet has brought into our lives is that it is remarkably easy to masquerade as something we're not.…

The world's only consulting detective steps into the 21st Century in the BBC series Sherlock. Benedict Cumberbatch portrays the titular…