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

“It takes a worried man to sing a worried song.” So croons popular singer Paolo Nutini in a song on his latest album Sunny Side…

The statistics are every bit as mind-boggling as the spectacle. A reported budget of $280,000,000 makes James Cameron’s Avatar one of…

Bill Maher, a well-known American comedian, satirist and religious sceptic has added this comedy-documentary to the growing number of…

Based on the iconic 1980s cartoon series and film of the same name, Transformers is the story of Sam Witwicky (Shia LaBeouf), an ordinary…

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 the TV series Spooks.

The act of reading is an act of decoding. Until our everyday habits are disrupted, we don’t realize how complex a process it is. How…

Please note that the content of this talk partially overlaps that of Jerry Root’s other talk entitled 'C.S. Lewis’s Approach to…