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

A review of Mamma Mia! - the movie.

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The King's Speech is book-ended by two speeches. The first is a disaster, a deeply humiliating experience for Prince Albert, Duke of York…

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…

Khaled Hosseini’s best-selling novel The Kite Runner, set in the author’s homeland Afghanistan, became a Hollywood blockbuster…

This essay attempts to do two things. Firstly, it seeks to offer a brief tour of some of the developments in western literature,…

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