Khaled Hosseini’s best-selling novel The Kite Runner, set in the author’s homeland Afghanistan, became a Hollywood blockbuster…

Why the growing popularity of Jane Austen? Is it accidental, a typical postmodern temporary fad, or is there some deeper reason for the…

Some thoughts about the film Prometheus and the human search for meaning.

An old lady in a headscarf is buying a pint of milk in a local shop. She’s surprised by the price of the milk, and disturbed by the…

I'm not sure exactly what makes someone a phenomenon, but anyone who has managed to win 62 music awards in two years and has produced a…

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

The Torchwood team have come a long way since their first rather dubious dealings with extraterrestrial invaders back in 2006. Billed as…

A review of the book and film of Watchmen.

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…