
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…
Margaret Atwood is one of the most important and influential writers alive today. Her fiction explores and reflects the current cultural…
Why does the desire to be young again continually re-appear in contemporary culture? What is a Christian response?
In The Writing on the Wall, Maggi Dawn sets about doing what John Stott called "double listening" – "it means that we’re called…
Reality TV now seems to be everywhere. What does it tell us about what is real and what is true? And what does it say about God?
An examination of a life falling apart in the film 'Locke'.
“It takes a worried man to sing a worried song.” So croons popular singer Paolo Nutini in a song on his latest album Sunny Side…
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…
Why does crime fiction fascinate so many people? What might this show us about people's concerns today.