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…

Margaret Atwood is one of the most important and influential writers alive today. Her fiction explores and reflects the current cultural…

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

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…

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

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:…

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

Dawn Bundy is a fifteen-year-old English girl. She is not especially attractive, and she doesn’t really fit in. Her best friends are…

The Shawshank Redemption has earned a reputation for being one of the most popular films of all time. Despite an unimpressive performance…