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…

‘What do you do when you're not sure?’ Father Brendan Flynn (Philip Seymour Hoffman) opens his sermon with a question which…

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

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

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…

When newspaper columnist Steve Lopez (Robert Downey Jr.) meets homeless, schizophrenic Juilliard-dropout Nathaniel Anthony Ayers Jr. (Jamie…

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…

Teachers lurk anxiously behind tinsel-covered curtains; excited children wait for their big moment; and nervous parents hope that their…

A review of the film Juno.