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

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

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…

Perhaps a society truly becomes lost when it doesn't know how lost it is. This is the eerie suggestion put forward by Never Let Me Go,…

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

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

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…

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