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The Invention of Good and Evil: A World History of Morality by Hanno Sauer Profle Books, [pounds sterling]25, pp. 416 The memory of Tsutomu Yamaguchi will be with me for [...]

Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Mutant Mayhem PG, Nationwide Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (TMNT) began as a joke in 1984, a parody of the superhero culture of the time. It was [...]

Mission: Impossible - Dead Reckoning Part One 12A, Nationwide Blockbuster action movies are designed to stun the audience into submissive acceptance. Complexity, humanity, emotion and beauty are reduced to a [...]

Are we all living in a computer simulation? Is the world we imagine to be real simply virtual reality instead, an elaborate computer program? That sounds ridiculous, but nonetheless it's [...]

At the tail end of last year, Chinese scientists claimed they had achieved something world-changing. In a widely circulated paper, the researchers said they had developed an algorithm run on [...]

Red Rocket 18, Nationwide Mikey (Simon Rex) first appears striding down a road in utterly wrecked jeans and shirt. He is carrying nothing and seems to be going nowhere until [...]

Cry Macho 12, Nationwide Clint Eastwood is 91; Cry Macho may well be his last film. Or maybe not. He has, after all, been directing himself as majestically craggy old [...]

Good Grief, Charlie Brown!Somerset House, until 3 MarchFor the hundredth, possibly the thousandth, time, Lucy van Pelt offers to hold the football for Charlie Brown so he can kick it. [...]

The Radical Eye: Modernist Photography from the Sir Elton John Collection Tate Modern, until 7 May 2017 'Radical' is like 'creative', a word that has been enfeebled to the point [...]

Will our love affair with robots send us the way of the dinosaurs? Bryan Appleyard thinks it might Why do humans want to build robots? It seems, on the face [...]

Diane Arbus: Portrait of a Photographer by Arthur Lubow Cape, 35 £, pp. 734 Armed with their tiny Leicas and Nikons, most of the great postwar 'street' photographers liked to [...]

Lo and Behold: Reveries of the Connected World Key Cities As a documentary-maker, Werner Herzog is a master of tone. His widely parodied voiceovers--breathy, raspy, ominous -are cunningly ambivalent. The [...]

The latest US census found that 43 per cent of the population in Santa Clara County, California, were members of a religious institution. This is slightly less than the American [...]

'Designer babies' is headline shorthand for a weird new world of genetic enhancement. Thanks to several generations of science-fiction imagery, it evokes an unnatural and evil world of blond, staring, [...]