The dwarves have all the best songs. Whether they are singing raucous ditties about smashing Bilbo’s best crockery or low, mournful…

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

According to the Romans, ‘bread and circuses’ were the key to keeping a population content. As long as their immediate physical…

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…

'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…

A review of Doctor Who, Series 4 starring David Tennant and Catherine Tate.

‘I don’t know if the story I want to tell you is entirely true,’ confesses the narrator at the opening of Michael…

Yet another film foray into Wonderland demonstrates the abiding charm of Lewis Carroll’s Alice stories. But Tim Burton’s…

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