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…

Vampires are currently one of the biggest phenomena in popular culture. They are central to hit television series like True Blood, Being…

We imagine war is tough. We know it puts great strain on soldiers. But is war a drug? Even ‘the supreme drug of human…

In Fictional Absence, Pete Lowman considers the presence and absence of God in English literature. It has been slightly revised for…

To my mind, one of the main interests of Philip Pullman’s controversial trilogy is not specifically related to the books. It lies in…

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…

Review of Amazing Grace in the light of whether religion is a force for good or for bad.

What can we learn from the film Bruce Almighty?

James Bond has been in the spying business for such a long time that he really ought to be up for a long-service award. But the…