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…

How can we be transformed through suffering? Surprisingly, the eighties cult film The Karate Kid offers some insights. If you're unfamiliar…

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

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What happens when people are given free reign to do what they want with impunity? When there are no consequences for their actions because…

The sun rises over the townships of South Africa on 10th May 1994. And the question at the back of everybody's mind is posed aloud by the…

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

Yet another film foray into Wonderland demonstrates the abiding charm of Lewis Carroll’s Alice stories. But Tim Burton’s…

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