Swan Lake is a beautiful, tragic story. The delicate art of ballet sensitively describes both the joy and turmoil of its main characters.…

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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…

A review of Mamma Mia! - the movie.

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

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

One of the most moving films of 2008, The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas is a powerful, haunting story about the horrors of the Holocaust.…

Khaled Hosseini’s best-selling novel The Kite Runner, set in the author’s homeland Afghanistan, became a Hollywood blockbuster…