It’s very rare that you see a film that you know absolutely nothing about beforehand, and from which […]

Isn’t it always the way that the films which are the least heralded are so often the best? […]

“What is freedom?” “I don’t know either. I only know that it is neither irresponsibility nor aimlessness. It’s […]

Sidney Poitier starred in some of the most iconic films of his generation: think To Sir, With Love and In The Heat Of The Night, and you […]

Last and First Men by Olaf Stapledon is possibly one of the most remarkable – and most forgotten […]

Heather’s book is subtitled A New History because he takes issue with the view, inherited from a long […]

Central to My House in Umbria are two stalwarts (indeed, legends) of British stage and film: Dame Maggie Smith and Ronnie Barker […]

Walter M Miller Jr grew up in the in-between-the-wars American South, enlisting in the Army Air Corp in […]

Critical responses to Richard Dawkins’ international best-seller The God Delusion have ranged from the scholarly to the acerbic. […]

As events in Syria and Ukraine over the course of recent years have demonstrated, Vladimir Putin is a […]