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

A review of the Oscar winning film 'Gravity' considers the themes of isolation, death, sacrifice and rebirth.

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

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

Mark Meynell is disoriented by the reality-probing of Sum: Forty Tales from the Afterlives. There are three deaths. The first is when…

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…

A review of J.K. Rowling's Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows.

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