According to the Romans, ‘bread and circuses’ were the key to keeping a population content. As long as their immediate physical…

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…

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

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

“It takes a worried man to sing a worried song.” So croons popular singer Paolo Nutini in a song on his latest album Sunny Side…

Having suffered a drawn-out divorce, a failed rebound relationship and a debilitating bout of depression, Elizabeth Gilbert decides to go…

A review of the book and film of Watchmen.

It seems like we can't do without God; or anyway something like him. 'In each of us there is an empty hole in the shape of God', said…