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…

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,…

What would the world be like if no one had ever lied? Ricky Gervais's new film, The Invention of Lying, explores this question with the…

In Fictional Absence, Pete Lowman considers the presence and absence of God in English literature. It has been slightly revised for…

A review of the book and film of Watchmen.

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…

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

Does the problem of suffering deal a fatal blow to the idea of a good, all-powerful God?

To my mind, one of the main interests of Philip Pullman’s controversial trilogy is not specifically related to the books. It lies in…