Posthumanism, technology and immortality
An interview with Professor Brent Waters on posthumanism and its implications.
Maleficent
'Whispers of Redemption' in Maleficent, Disney's makeover of Sleeping Beauty.
Chesterton the Apologist
When we think of Chesterton today, we think of Father Brown, the quintessential priest-detective. But, like Conan Doyle, who believed his…
Lincoln
A review of the film Lincoln.
The Grey
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…
The King's Speech
The King's Speech is book-ended by two speeches. The first is a disaster, a deeply humiliating experience for Prince Albert, Duke of York…
The White Ribbon
‘I don’t know if the story I want to tell you is entirely true,’ confesses the narrator at the opening of Michael…
Sum: Forty Tales from the Afterlives
Mark Meynell is disoriented by the reality-probing of Sum: Forty Tales from the Afterlives. There are three deaths. The first is when…
Knowing
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…