David Cronenberg built his reputation on making challenging, boundary-breaking films which explore sexuality, violence and death. So…

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

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…

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

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

What can we learn from the film Bruce Almighty?

James Bond has been in the spying business for such a long time that he really ought to be up for a long-service award. But the…

How can we be transformed through suffering? Surprisingly, the eighties cult film The Karate Kid offers some insights. If you're unfamiliar…