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

The Lone Ranger (2013) has been such a flop at the US box-office that critics are heralding the death of the Western. Are these critics…

The dwarves have all the best songs. Whether they are singing raucous ditties about smashing Bilbo’s best crockery or low, mournful…

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…

A review of the recent Sherlock Holmes films and BBC TV series.

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…

In The Writing on the Wall, Maggi Dawn sets about doing what John Stott called "double listening" – "it means that we’re called…

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

How do we know who or what to trust? This is one of the key questions of the world we live in today. So many claims compete for our trust:…