aAh!, Author at aAh! Magazine

Entertainment, News
Revisting ‘Withnail and I’

22nd October 2014 By aAh! 0 615

By Callum Willmott Ever since my first viewing, two moments have always struck me in Bruce Robinson’s Withnail & I; the first of these being the film’s opening. Set to the sounds of A Whiter Shade of Pale (covered here by King Curtis), the camera sluggishly zooms in on a downtrodden Paul McGann. The second,…
News
Companions, Captives, Commodities

21st October 2014 By aAh! 0 351

By Neil Harrison The Humanities in Public festival’s Animal Worlds strand ended last night in eclectic style. Manchester Metropolitan University (MMU) academics from across three separate humanities disciplines came together to each deliver a short lecture on an animal-related topic. The resulting mix of themes, topics and approaches was a fitting – and engaging –…
News
The Manchester Writing Competition 2014 Prize-Giving Ceremony

20th October 2014 By aAh! 0 446

“I am so grateful to all the judges, to Carol Ann Duffy and the whole of Manchester Metropolitan University Writing School. This has completely changed my life.” – 2014 Manchester Fiction Prize Winner, Martin MacInnes “It is a really special competition that has given me such a boost to my confidence.” – 2014 Manchester Poetry…
News
A Sex Crime Not a Scandal: Why Jennifer Lawrence’s Response Towards Her Nude Photo Leak Is Inspirational

20th October 2014 By aAh! 0 318

By Lucy Harding Back in August 2014, the media was rife with the news that intimate photographs of several female celebrities had been stolen and leaked onto the internet in an online data breach including those of the Oscar award winning star of The Hunger Games, Jennifer Lawrence. In our media focused society it seems…
Entertainment, News
Revisiting ‘The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari’

18th October 2014 By aAh! 0 724

By Callum Willmott As I left the Cornerhouse showing of The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari, something unusual occurred to me. Whilst the lights reappeared in the screening theatre, I noticed a lack of reaction among the other audience members. Most of this, I soon realised, seemed to come from bemusement. Who was Caligari? What happened…

Revisting ‘Withnail and I’

Companions, Captives, Commodities

The Manchester Writing Competition 2014 Prize-Giving Ceremony

A Sex Crime Not a Scandal: Why Jennifer Lawrence’s Response Towards Her Nude Photo Leak Is Inspirational

Revisiting ‘The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari’

New Issue Out Now

About Us

aAh! Magazine

Latest Articles