I watched The Grey the other night, and thought it was disturbing, haunting, devoid of hope and the best film I'd seen in a long time. The…

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

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…

An in-depth look at cognitive scientist Steven Pinker's book Rationality: What it is, Why it seems Scarce, Why it Matters

What does J.B. Priestley's play An Inspector Calls have to say to us about sin, responsibility and being human?

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

An examination of a life falling apart in the film 'Locke'.

The most recent strain of Brontemania, at large throughout 2011, included major film versions of Jane Eyre and Wuthering Heights and the…

When newspaper columnist Steve Lopez (Robert Downey Jr.) meets homeless, schizophrenic Juilliard-dropout Nathaniel Anthony Ayers Jr. (Jamie…