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…

Khaled Hosseini’s best-selling novel The Kite Runner, set in the author’s homeland Afghanistan, became a Hollywood blockbuster…

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

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

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

A review of the Oscar winning film 'Gravity' considers the themes of isolation, death, sacrifice and rebirth.

A review of the film The Great Gatsby.

M (Judi Dench) is nothing if not pragmatic. Before the opening credits of Skyfall have even rolled, she has allowed not one, but two of her…

I watched The Grey the other night, and thought it was disturbing, haunting, devoid of hope and the best film I'd seen in a long time. The…