M (Judi Dench) is nothing if not pragmatic. Before the opening credits of Skyfall have even rolled, she has allowed not one, but two of her…

James Bond has been in the spying business for such a long time that he really ought to be up for a long-service award. But the…

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…

Michael Ots considers the question of self-image and asks what is the value of any human being. The talk lasts about 30 mins and is…

This month England has been taken by storm. Not rain – but riots. Unlike the weather, it came without warning and has left the nation…

A review of Doctor Who, Series 4 starring David Tennant and Catherine Tate.

The statistics are every bit as mind-boggling as the spectacle. A reported budget of $280,000,000 makes James Cameron’s Avatar one of…

In 1959, the children of a new elementary school bury a time capsule containing their ideas of what they think the world will be like in…