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

When newspaper columnist Steve Lopez (Robert Downey Jr.) meets homeless, schizophrenic Juilliard-dropout Nathaniel Anthony Ayers Jr. (Jamie…

To my mind, one of the main interests of Philip Pullman’s controversial trilogy is not specifically related to the books. It lies in…

What can we learn from the current obsession for nostalgia?

In 1959, the children of a new elementary school bury a time capsule containing their ideas of what they think the world will be like in…

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 exploration of the Christian themes and imagery in 'The Silmarillion' and 'The Lord of the Rings'.

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