A review of the recent Sherlock Holmes films and BBC TV series.

The colour red suffuses We Need to Talk About Kevin. Red paint is smeared across walls and car window screens, red jam oozes out of…

The King's Speech is book-ended by two speeches. The first is a disaster, a deeply humiliating experience for Prince Albert, Duke of York…

When newspaper columnist Steve Lopez (Robert Downey Jr.) meets homeless, schizophrenic Juilliard-dropout Nathaniel Anthony Ayers Jr. (Jamie…

Dom Cobb (Leonardo DiCaprio) is a very unusual sort of criminal. Along with the pragmatic Arthur (Joseph Gordon-Levitt), he is paid to…

We imagine war is tough. We know it puts great strain on soldiers. But is war a drug? Even ‘the supreme drug of human…

There are many people who will have switched off during the first five minutes of Skins, E4’s notorious wild-child. The show is…

A review of the film of Dan Brown's Angels and Demons.

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…