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 helpful talk for understanding transgender issues and thinking about how to respond to a transgender person.

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

Twenty questions to help us think more carefully about films - or to use in film discussion evenings.

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…

Some thoughts about the film Prometheus and the human search for meaning.

Margaret Atwood is one of the most important and influential writers alive today. Her fiction explores and reflects the current cultural…

A review of the recent Sherlock Holmes films and BBC TV series.

Big Mike walks as though every step is an effort. Head and shoulders taller and a good few inches broader than everyone he passes, dressed…