We Need To Talk About Kevin
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…
Eat, Pray, Love
Having suffered a drawn-out divorce, a failed rebound relationship and a debilitating bout of depression, Elizabeth Gilbert decides to go…
Lark Rise to Candleford
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…
Bruce Almighty
What can we learn from the film Bruce Almighty?
Lifeblood
A review of the Manic Street Preachers' Lifeblood album.
Making Faith Magnetic
In this book, Dan Strange highlights five compelling questions the world constantly attempts to answer – whether it’s aware of it or not.
Les Misérables
A review of the film Les Misérables.
Sherlock Holmes
A review of the recent Sherlock Holmes films and BBC TV series.
Surrogates
‘You can live your life without limitations and become anyone you want to be.’ Disease and injury, ageing and ugliness, death…