There are many people who will have switched off during the first five minutes of Skins, E4’s notorious wild-child. The show is…

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…

At one time, every parent and child knew all about Nativity plays. Many will have memories and photographs of tea-towel-adorned shepherds,…

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

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

The statistics are every bit as mind-boggling as the spectacle. A reported budget of $280,000,000 makes James Cameron’s Avatar one of…

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