mark hadley

Top Gun: Maverick may be arriving 35 years after the hit original, but have all your fan-favourite characters grown up?

Star Wars fans might be surprised to find similarities between anti-hero character Boba Fett—the lead in the Disney+ series Book of Boba Fett—and a man who walked along the Road to Damascus thousands of years ago.

How Denis Villeneuve’s blockbuster Dune parallels the real-world relationship between religion, politics and science.

If you’re a fan of the 2001 comedy Zoolander, you’d have to agree: “Chris Pratt? He’s so hot right now!” It seems that everything...

Amongst the grunting of engines and squeal of tyres, Fast and Furious is the seventh-highest grossing film franchise ever. It’s what’s under the hood that counts though, and there are questions about how the films have influenced a generation of men.

The Binge series Raised By Wolves forces us to ask hard questions about our prejudices, the way we so easily take up the sword in polarised debates and how we can see the good in our enemies.

The year 2020 will long be remembered as the year of the Covid-19 pandemic. How has it changed our lives? And what have we learned about ourselves?

To be born into the twenty-­first century is to be born into an era of hopelessness. Is there a way out?

The trajectory of the Toy Story franchise tells us something about the direction of our culture’s soul.

Game of Thrones' final season may have polarized fans, but what did the show say about the search for meaning?

Has the secular left become the new religious right?

The direction of your life can be set by the people you choose to surround yourself with. Take Han Solo, for example...