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…

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

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…

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?

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

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…