M (Judi Dench) is nothing if not pragmatic. Before the opening credits of Skyfall have even rolled, she has allowed not one, but two of her…

“It takes a worried man to sing a worried song.” So croons popular singer Paolo Nutini in a song on his latest album Sunny Side…

The Rev. Dr. Michael Ward is an Anglican minister and the author of Planet Narnia: The Seven Heavens in the Imagination of C.S. Lewis. It…

It doesn’t take usually take too much persuasion to get me to try a new box set of DVDs, but I have to say that I was a little…

A review of the film of Philip Pullman's The Golden Compass.

Jodi Picoult is not an author to shy away from controversial topics. Her novels cover issues such as rape, suicide pacts and genetically…

A helpful talk for understanding transgender issues and thinking about how to respond to a transgender person.

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…

A review of Nick Barham's Disconnected: Why our kids are turning their backs on everything we thought we knew.