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…

Beyoncé is incredibly popular. What makes her music resonate so deeply with people?

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…

This resource provides extracts from Dr Paul Coulter's extensive study of The Shack.

'Whispers of Redemption' in Maleficent, Disney's makeover of Sleeping Beauty.

How can we be transformed through suffering? Surprisingly, the eighties cult film The Karate Kid offers some insights. If you're unfamiliar…

A review of the film Juno.

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…

An in-depth look at cognitive scientist Steven Pinker's book Rationality: What it is, Why it seems Scarce, Why it Matters