We braved a cold and wintry Abbotsford Convent as crime fiction writers shared their stories and the Dev took full flight. But the absence of attendees aged under 40 was the real mystery.

Washington Post science journalist Shankar Vedantam examines a wide range of unconscious behaviour to show how biases and small social cues colour our lives despite our best intentions.

Kinda like Robin Begins, this hi-res actioner revises the Sherwood outlaw's origin story. But Russell Crowe lacks the verve to give this tale the punch of Gladiator.

Gay fetish character cabaret, anyone? The delightful Dean Arcuri has a song for just about every kink, but his lyrics and character work need to be severely disciplined.

These Brooklyn genre-deconstructors put on a great show, and the hardest part of reviewing them is trying to describe what they're 'like'. But we can say conclusively that their hair is not like an eagle.

In the second part of our investigation into onscreen colonial encounters, we look at films that depict European colonialism as a narrative of progress from primitivism to 'civilisation'.

James Cameron's alien eco-adventure Avatar has been criticised for its colonialist overtones. We decided to examine how Hollywood really imagines the space of colonial first encounters.