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

Why does crime fiction fascinate so many people? What might this show us about people's concerns today.

The Lone Ranger (2013) has been such a flop at the US box-office that critics are heralding the death of the Western. Are these critics…

In The Writing on the Wall, Maggi Dawn sets about doing what John Stott called "double listening" – "it means that we’re called…

Dom Cobb (Leonardo DiCaprio) is a very unusual sort of criminal. Along with the pragmatic Arthur (Joseph Gordon-Levitt), he is paid to…

As Andy leaves for college, Sheriff Woody (Tom Hanks), space ranger Buzz (Tim Allen) and what remains of the old gang confront the reality…

Why do people do the things they do? It’s a question the world’s greatest philosophers, theologians, scientists and doctors…

Please note that the content of this talk partially overlaps that of Jerry Root’s other talk entitled 'C.S. Lewis’s Approach to…

A review of J.K. Rowling's Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows.