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

A review of the Oscar winning film 'Gravity' considers the themes of isolation, death, sacrifice and rebirth.

M (Judi Dench) is nothing if not pragmatic. Before the opening credits of Skyfall have even rolled, she has allowed not one, but two of her…

According to the Romans, ‘bread and circuses’ were the key to keeping a population content. As long as their immediate physical…

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…

The second of the two films adapted from J.K. Rowling’s final Harry Potter novel begins at the place where the first left us hanging:…

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

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

‘You can live your life without limitations and become anyone you want to be.’ Disease and injury, ageing and ugliness, death…