The King's Speech is book-ended by two speeches. The first is a disaster, a deeply humiliating experience for Prince Albert, Duke of York…

A look at how the rise of mass media has helped us create alternative 'electronic universes' – worlds where God has no place.

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

'Whispers of Redemption' in Maleficent, Disney's makeover of Sleeping Beauty.

Swan Lake is a beautiful, tragic story. The delicate art of ballet sensitively describes both the joy and turmoil of its main characters.…

A review of Mamma Mia! - the movie.

What can we learn from the film Bruce Almighty?

We imagine war is tough. We know it puts great strain on soldiers. But is war a drug? Even ‘the supreme drug of human…