A review of the recent Sherlock Holmes films and BBC TV series.

The statistics are every bit as mind-boggling as the spectacle. A reported budget of $280,000,000 makes James Cameron’s Avatar one of…

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

What would the world be like if no one had ever lied? Ricky Gervais's new film, The Invention of Lying, explores this question with the…

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…

A review of The X-Files: I Want to Believe.

Why do people do the things they do? It’s a question the world’s greatest philosophers, theologians, scientists and doctors…

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…

This helpful summary of philosopher Charles Taylor's work examines what it means to live in a secular age.