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

Why does crime fiction fascinate so many people? What might this show us about people's concerns today.

The most recent strain of Brontemania, at large throughout 2011, included major film versions of Jane Eyre and Wuthering Heights and the…

In The Writing on the Wall, Maggi Dawn sets about doing what John Stott called "double listening" – "it means that we’re called…

I'm not sure exactly what makes someone a phenomenon, but anyone who has managed to win 62 music awards in two years and has produced a…

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.

Margaret Atwood is one of the most important and influential writers alive today. Her fiction explores and reflects the current cultural…

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…