The Writing on the Wall
In The Writing on the Wall, Maggi Dawn sets about doing what John Stott called "double listening" – "it means that we’re called…
Inception
Dom Cobb (Leonardo DiCaprio) is a very unusual sort of criminal. Along with the pragmatic Arthur (Joseph Gordon-Levitt), he is paid to…
Sum: Forty Tales from the Afterlives
Mark Meynell is disoriented by the reality-probing of Sum: Forty Tales from the Afterlives. There are three deaths. The first is when…
Lark Rise to Candleford
It doesn’t take usually take too much persuasion to get me to try a new box set of DVDs, but I have to say that I was a little…
Inkheart
A review of the film Inkheart.
Philip Pullman’s 'His Dark Materials'
To my mind, one of the main interests of Philip Pullman’s controversial trilogy is not specifically related to the books. It lies in…
Science Fiction Movies: our new mythologies?
It seems like we can't do without God; or anyway something like him. 'In each of us there is an empty hole in the shape of God', said…
The Artist Needs No Justification
In this talk, Hans Rookmaaker considers what art is, what its purpose is and what the attitude of Christians should be towards it.
Lifeblood
A review of the Manic Street Preachers' Lifeblood album.