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'.

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

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?

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

Why does the desire to be young again continually re-appear in contemporary culture? What is a Christian response?

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…