Making Sense of God - a review
Tim Keller's new book explores the question of how anyone in our age of scepticism could believe in Christianity.
We Need To Talk About Kevin
The colour red suffuses We Need to Talk About Kevin. Red paint is smeared across walls and car window screens, red jam oozes out of…
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: a discussion guide
The second of the two films adapted from J.K. Rowling’s final Harry Potter novel begins at the place where the first left us hanging:…
The Way
'El Camino de Santiago' or 'the Way of St. James' spans 800km across France and Spain. With its destination believed to be the burial place…
Doctor Who - Dilemmas of a Time Traveller
A review of Doctor Who, Series 4 starring David Tennant and Catherine Tate.
The Soloist
When newspaper columnist Steve Lopez (Robert Downey Jr.) meets homeless, schizophrenic Juilliard-dropout Nathaniel Anthony Ayers Jr. (Jamie…
Knowing
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…
Philip Pullman’s 'His Dark Materials'
To my mind, one of the main interests of Philip Pullman’s controversial trilogy is not specifically related to the books. It lies in…
Science Fiction Movies: our new mythologies?
It seems like we can't do without God; or anyway something like him. 'In each of us there is an empty hole in the shape of God', said…