‘You can live your life without limitations and become anyone you want to be.’ Disease and injury, ageing and ugliness, death…

A review of the film of Philip Pullman's The Golden Compass.

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…

‘I don’t know if the story I want to tell you is entirely true,’ confesses the narrator at the opening of Michael…

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

Why do people do the things they do? It’s a question the world’s greatest philosophers, theologians, scientists and doctors…

Kingdom of Heaven offers a very twenty-first century take on twelfth century history. In a war-torn world troubled by religious conflict,…