How can we be transformed through suffering? Surprisingly, the eighties cult film The Karate Kid offers some insights. If you're unfamiliar…

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

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A review of Doctor Who, Series 4 starring David Tennant and Catherine Tate.

One of the many changes which the Internet has brought into our lives is that it is remarkably easy to masquerade as something we're not.…

Pete Atkinson considers the difference the Christianity made to the Roman Empire. 'Are You Not Entertained?' – The Gladiator Who…

I'm not sure exactly what makes someone a phenomenon, but anyone who has managed to win 62 music awards in two years and has produced a…

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

‘I don’t know if the story I want to tell you is entirely true,’ confesses the narrator at the opening of Michael…