There are many people who will have switched off during the first five minutes of Skins, E4’s notorious wild-child. The show is…

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…

An in-depth look at cognitive scientist Steven Pinker's book Rationality: What it is, Why it seems Scarce, Why it Matters

Examine the role played by Christianity in the Magna Carta.

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

David Cronenberg built his reputation on making challenging, boundary-breaking films which explore sexuality, violence and death. So…

Perhaps a society truly becomes lost when it doesn't know how lost it is. This is the eerie suggestion put forward by Never Let Me Go,…

The world's only consulting detective steps into the 21st Century in the BBC series Sherlock. Benedict Cumberbatch portrays the titular…

It doesn’t take usually take too much persuasion to get me to try a new box set of DVDs, but I have to say that I was a little…