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

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Why are so many of the films and TV shows we enjoy obsessed with the end of the world?

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

What would the world be like if no one had ever lied? Ricky Gervais's new film, The Invention of Lying, explores this question with the…

‘What do you do when you're not sure?’ Father Brendan Flynn (Philip Seymour Hoffman) opens his sermon with a question which…

A review of Lily Allen's CD It's Not Me It's You.