Why the growing popularity of Jane Austen? Is it accidental, a typical postmodern temporary fad, or is there some deeper reason for the…

Beyoncé is incredibly popular. What makes her music resonate so deeply with people?

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

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…

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

We imagine war is tough. We know it puts great strain on soldiers. But is war a drug? Even ‘the supreme drug of human…

In 1959, the children of a new elementary school bury a time capsule containing their ideas of what they think the world will be like in…

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.…

A review of the Manic Street Preachers' Lifeblood album.