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?

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

What can we learn from the current obsession for nostalgia?

An examination of a life falling apart in the film 'Locke'.

A review of the Oscar winning film 'Gravity' considers the themes of isolation, death, sacrifice and rebirth.

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…

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…

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

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…

“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?