Arts & Entertainment
The latest arts and entertainment highlights, previews, reviews, music and film features and opinion pieces from The Skinny writers.
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Books
The Worms Can Carry Me to Heaven - Alan Warner
Upon learning that he is HIV positive, Manollo Follana mostly just drifts around and Thinks About His Life. Read more »| 15 Jul 2006 -
Books
Sugar-Coated Pill: Selected Poems - Mahmood Jamal
There is a clear sense of an approach to art and life that is grounded in the local and the human. Read more »| 15 Jul 2006 -
Books
Blackshirt: Sir Oswald Mosley and British Fascism - Stephen Dorril
A frighteningly detailed biography of Britain's most infamous fascist. Read more »| 15 Jul 2006 -
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99 Ways to Tell a Story: Exercises in Style - Matt Madden
Exercises in perfection Read more »| 15 Jul 2006 -
Film
What Ever Happened to Baby Jane?
The real horror story emanates from behind the scenes Read more »| 15 Jul 2006 -
Film
Sunset Boulevard
one of the greatest films ever made Read more »| 15 Jul 2006
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Film
Hush... Hush, Sweet Charlotte
a savage horror mystery Read more »| 15 Jul 2006 -
Film
The Stuff Of Dreams
The Science Of Sleep' is a frustrating, fantastic and entirely unique cinema experience, but is it one worth having? Read more »| 15 Jul 2006 -
Film
Spotlight - Vince Vaughn
Is there more to this comedy king than quick quips and gorgeous girls?
Read more »| 15 Jul 2006 -
Film
Rediscovered Classic: Kiss Me Deadly
Think classic noir, and you're first thought won't be of 'Kiss Me Deadly'. But it should be, and here's why... Read more »| 15 Jul 2006 -
Film
Of Empires and Men
Standfirst: Screenwriter Paul Laverty is no stranger to stirring up controversy, and he tells us why he's happy to be provocative with this year's Palme d'Or winner 'The Wind That Shakes The Barley'.
Pull Quote: ""The British elite are so furious about the film because they cannot bear to see anyone challenge their notion of who they are or what the Empire was. They can't stand it when we say Ireland was one little corner of the British Empire."" Read more »| 15 Jul 2006 -
Film
International Rescue
With a predictable plot and no-name actors, 'District 13' should be a failure before it's begun. So why is it so damn good? Read more »| 15 Jul 2006 -
Film
Indie Film Of The Month: Little Fish
What happens when your past threatens to drown you? Read more »| 15 Jul 2006 -
Film
Heroes Welcome
Two of cinema's favourite saviours are back to stake their claims on our hearts and minds, so it seems pertinent to ask: what kind of hero do we need? Read more »| 15 Jul 2006 -
Music
Nick Oliveri and his Mondo Generator @ The Barfly, June 13
what heroes did next' Read more »| 15 Jul 2006