A review of the book and film of Watchmen.

It doesn’t take usually take too much persuasion to get me to try a new box set of DVDs, but I have to say that I was a little…

The Shawshank Redemption has earned a reputation for being one of the most popular films of all time. Despite an unimpressive performance…

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

The act of reading is an act of decoding. Until our everyday habits are disrupted, we don’t realize how complex a process it is. How…

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

A review of the book God Explained in a Taxi Ride.

This essay attempts to do two things. Firstly, it seeks to offer a brief tour of some of the developments in western literature,…

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