William Shakespeare is regarded as the greatest writer in the English language - yet we know little about his personal life. Jerram Barrs…

The Lone Ranger (2013) has been such a flop at the US box-office that critics are heralding the death of the Western. Are these critics…

A review of the film Les Misérables.

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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…

‘You can live your life without limitations and become anyone you want to be.’ Disease and injury, ageing and ugliness, death…

Yet another film foray into Wonderland demonstrates the abiding charm of Lewis Carroll’s Alice stories. But Tim Burton’s…

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