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…

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…

A review of J.K. Rowling's Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows.

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

An old lady in a headscarf is buying a pint of milk in a local shop. She’s surprised by the price of the milk, and disturbed by the…

The King's Speech is book-ended by two speeches. The first is a disaster, a deeply humiliating experience for Prince Albert, Duke of York…

A review of Lily Allen's CD It's Not Me It's You.

To my mind, one of the main interests of Philip Pullman’s controversial trilogy is not specifically related to the books. It lies in…

A review of the film The Spiderwick Chronicles.