A review of the recent Sherlock Holmes films and BBC TV series.

Big Mike walks as though every step is an effort. Head and shoulders taller and a good few inches broader than everyone he passes, dressed…

The colour red suffuses We Need to Talk About Kevin. Red paint is smeared across walls and car window screens, red jam oozes out of…

A review of the film The Odd Life of Timothy Green.

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…

How do you begin to tell stories about a war which claimed more than fifteen million lives? For children's author Michael Morpurgo, the…

Dom Cobb (Leonardo DiCaprio) is a very unusual sort of criminal. Along with the pragmatic Arthur (Joseph Gordon-Levitt), he is paid to…

According to the Romans, ‘bread and circuses’ were the key to keeping a population content. As long as their immediate physical…

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