How can we be transformed through suffering? Surprisingly, the eighties cult film The Karate Kid offers some insights. If you're unfamiliar…

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…

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…

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

The Torchwood team have come a long way since their first rather dubious dealings with extraterrestrial invaders back in 2006. Billed as…

A review of the film Juno.

A New Testament scholar reviews Dan Brown's novel The Da Vinci Code.

An examination of a life falling apart in the film 'Locke'.

How do you begin to tell stories about a war which claimed more than fifteen million lives? For children's author Michael Morpurgo, the…