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…

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…

Twenty questions to help us think more carefully about films - or to use in film discussion evenings.

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

One of the most moving films of 2008, The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas is a powerful, haunting story about the horrors of the Holocaust.…

A New Testament scholar reviews Dan Brown's novel The Da Vinci Code.

'Whispers of Redemption' in Maleficent, Disney's makeover of Sleeping Beauty.

The Shawshank Redemption has earned a reputation for being one of the most popular films of all time. Despite an unimpressive performance…