‘You can live your life without limitations and become anyone you want to be.’ Disease and injury, ageing and ugliness, death…

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

“It takes a worried man to sing a worried song.” So croons popular singer Paolo Nutini in a song on his latest album Sunny Side…

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…

A review of the film The Bourne Ultimatum.

Why the growing popularity of Jane Austen? Is it accidental, a typical postmodern temporary fad, or is there some deeper reason for the…

Reviews of some of Joanne Harris' novels, including Chocolat.

Cricket is the new football, or so they say. This year’s [2005] Ashes Test Series between England and Australia has defined the…

Kingdom of Heaven offers a very twenty-first century take on twelfth century history. In a war-torn world troubled by religious conflict,…