
Horror and 3D
Rachel Helen Smith considers two recent developments in film: horror and 3D. Karl Marx famously claimed, "Religion is the opiate of the…
Rachel Helen Smith (née Thorpe) is a writer based in Cambridge, UK.
Rachel Helen Smith considers two recent developments in film: horror and 3D. Karl Marx famously claimed, "Religion is the opiate of the…
An examination of a life falling apart in the film 'Locke'.
Margaret Atwood is one of the most important and influential writers alive today. Her fiction explores and reflects the current cultural…
Why does crime fiction fascinate so many people? What might this show us about people's concerns today.
A review of the Oscar winning film 'Gravity' considers the themes of isolation, death, sacrifice and rebirth.
Vincent Van Gogh is now a solid fixture in our cultural vocabulary. I need only mention sunflowers or a bandaged ear to conjure up his life…
In The Writing on the Wall, Maggi Dawn sets about doing what John Stott called "double listening" – "it means that we’re called…
The Lone Ranger (2013) has been such a flop at the US box-office that critics are heralding the death of the Western. Are these critics…
The most recent strain of Brontemania, at large throughout 2011, included major film versions of Jane Eyre and Wuthering Heights and the…