Swan Lake is a beautiful, tragic story. The delicate art of ballet sensitively describes both the joy and turmoil of its main characters.…

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…

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

Margaret Atwood is one of the most important and influential writers alive today. Her fiction explores and reflects the current cultural…

Chronicles of Heaven Unshackled examines the presence (and absence) of God in the English novel, with particular reference to Tolkien and…

A review of the SF film Jumper.

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

We imagine war is tough. We know it puts great strain on soldiers. But is war a drug? Even ‘the supreme drug of human…