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…

What can we learn from the film Bruce Almighty?

Kingdom of Heaven offers a very twenty-first century take on twelfth century history. In a war-torn world troubled by religious conflict,…

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…

Dom Cobb (Leonardo DiCaprio) is a very unusual sort of criminal. Along with the pragmatic Arthur (Joseph Gordon-Levitt), he is paid to…

There are many people who will have switched off during the first five minutes of Skins, E4’s notorious wild-child. The show is…

This essay attempts to do two things. Firstly, it seeks to offer a brief tour of some of the developments in western literature,…

A review of the film and book The Corporation.