Sherlock Holmes
A review of the recent Sherlock Holmes films and BBC TV series.
We Need To Talk About Kevin
The colour red suffuses We Need to Talk About Kevin. Red paint is smeared across walls and car window screens, red jam oozes out of…
Sherlock
The world's only consulting detective steps into the 21st Century in the BBC series Sherlock. Benedict Cumberbatch portrays the titular…
Toy Story 3
As Andy leaves for college, Sheriff Woody (Tom Hanks), space ranger Buzz (Tim Allen) and what remains of the old gang confront the reality…
Testing the Golden Rule
The new atheists have persistently down-played the uniqueness of Christ’s teaching, focussing their attention on Christ’s…
Lark Rise to Candleford
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…
The Spiderwick Chronicles
A review of the film The Spiderwick Chronicles.
A Media Studies Approach to (Not) Noticing God
A look at how the rise of mass media has helped us create alternative 'electronic universes' – worlds where God has no place.
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows
A review of J.K. Rowling's Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows.