As premiered at the Glasgow Film Festival, Mad to be Normal is a suitably unconventional biopic of an unconventional subject, the Scottish psychiatrist Ronald David Laing whose theories
In the jungle it has waited for centuries, under the angry volcano, hidden in the darkness of the deep, since the Mayans were driven from their cities in
No endeavour takes place in a vacuum, even if a vacuum is where it eventually arrives. With its goal of placing humans on the Moon, the Apollo programme
Rose-tinted glasses. Or, in today’s parlance, “nostalgia goggles.” Call it what you will, but in an ever-increasingly technological age, where products, shows, technology itself and even jobs can
Be they a cyborg, an android or a mechanical automaton, audiences have been enthralled by robots for a hundred years of celluloid, raising questions around the idea of
The cold and distant stars have beckoned since before recorded history, and with its first components launched into low Earth orbit in 1998 for almost two decades humanity
By day, Mary Portman is strong. A widow who lives with her teenage stepson, Steven, in a permanent vegetative state since the accident which claimed the life of
More often than not, horror is about family, those who are close such as the Freelings of Poltergeist and the Lutzes of The Amityville Horror, the sorority sisters