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…

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

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

I watched The Grey the other night, and thought it was disturbing, haunting, devoid of hope and the best film I'd seen in a long time. The…

A review of the film The Spiderwick Chronicles.

What does J.B. Priestley's play An Inspector Calls have to say to us about sin, responsibility and being human?

Perhaps a society truly becomes lost when it doesn't know how lost it is. This is the eerie suggestion put forward by Never Let Me Go,…

To my mind, one of the main interests of Philip Pullman’s controversial trilogy is not specifically related to the books. It lies in…

A New Testament scholar reviews Dan Brown's novel The Da Vinci Code.