Rachel Helen Smith considers two recent developments in film: horror and 3D. Karl Marx famously claimed, "Religion is the opiate of the…

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…

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…

What can we learn from the current obsession for nostalgia?

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…

“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…

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?