Why are so many of the films and TV shows we enjoy obsessed with the end of the world?

Examine the role played by Christianity in the Magna Carta.

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…

David Cronenberg built his reputation on making challenging, boundary-breaking films which explore sexuality, violence and death. So…

According to the Romans, ‘bread and circuses’ were the key to keeping a population content. As long as their immediate physical…

I watched The Grey the other night, and thought it was disturbing, haunting, devoid of hope and the best film I'd seen in a long time. The…

The second of the two films adapted from J.K. Rowling’s final Harry Potter novel begins at the place where the first left us hanging:…

Swan Lake is a beautiful, tragic story. The delicate art of ballet sensitively describes both the joy and turmoil of its main characters.…

Perhaps a society truly becomes lost when it doesn't know how lost it is. This is the eerie suggestion put forward by Never Let Me Go,…