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

How do you begin to tell stories about a war which claimed more than fifteen million lives? For children's author Michael Morpurgo, the…

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…

A review of the film of Philip Pullman's The Golden Compass.

When newspaper columnist Steve Lopez (Robert Downey Jr.) meets homeless, schizophrenic Juilliard-dropout Nathaniel Anthony Ayers Jr. (Jamie…

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

Review of Amazing Grace in the light of whether religion is a force for good or for bad.

A review of the Oscar winning film 'Gravity' considers the themes of isolation, death, sacrifice and rebirth.

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…