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

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

‘What do you do when you're not sure?’ Father Brendan Flynn (Philip Seymour Hoffman) opens his sermon with a question which…

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…