The Guardian Film Show: Sunshine on Leith, Filth, Thanks for Sharing and How...
Xan Brooks, Catherine Shoard and Henry Barnes review Sunshine on Leith, Filth, Thanks for Sharing and How I Live NowHenry BarnesXan BrooksCatherine ShoardRichard SprengerElliot SmithThibaut Remy
View ArticleFilth: watch James McAvoy as drug-crazed cop - video
Watch the new trailer for Filth, starring James McAvoy as a damaged, drug-addicted policeman
View ArticleIrvine Welsh: everything you need to know - infographic
The Trainspotting and Filth author in facts, figures and favourite drug moviesJohnny Dee
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Sunshine on Leith; Filth – review
It's hard not to warm to the Proclaimers' answer to Mamma Mia!. And James McAvoy impresses in a dark, exhausting Irvine Welsh adaptationThe great Scottish film-maker Bill Forsyth memorably described...
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Antonia Bird obituary
Stage, TV and film director motivated by a desire to tell relevant and provocative storiesAs the director Antonia Bird, who has died aged 62 from anaplastic thyroid cancer, moved from the stage into...
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Trainspotting's Francis Begbie returns in Big Issue Christmas story
Irvine Welsh short story He Ain't Lager finds Begbie rehabilitated through art and in love as he visits his familyFrancis Begbie, the sociopathic character prone to bouts of shocking violence in Irvine...
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If Trainspotting's Begbie can be transformed, who next? | Open thread
Irvine Welsh has 'saved' his angry and violent character through art and love – tell us which of fiction's bad guys you'd rehabilitateIrvine Welsh has written a new story for the Big Issue, which...
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100 leading figures urge newspaper publishers to accept royal charter
More than 100 prominent people from literature, the arts, science, academia, human rights and the law have signed a declaration urging newspaper and magazine publishers to embrace the royal charter...
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Trainspotting declared Scotland's favourite novel
Irvine Welsh's tale of addiction in Leith voted best work from the last 50 years in poll run by Scottish Book TrustIrvine Welsh's grimy novel of addiction Trainspotting has emerged as the public's...
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Metro Manila named British independent film of the year
Low-budget thriller set in the Philippines is standout winner at 2013 Bifas, with director Sean Ellis also named best director• Interview: Sean EllisA shoestring-budget heist thriller set in the...
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Antonia Bird remembered by Irvine Welsh
Writer Irvine Welsh pays tribute to the inspirational film and TV director whom he was a partner with in the British production company 4Way• See the Observer's obituaries of 2013 in full hereI first...
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Calvin Harris, Jay Z and Will Smith for HBO EDM comedy
The Goliaths of contemporary music are joining forces for a new show penned by Irvine WelshIt has been confirmed! Calvin Harris, Jay Z and Will Smith are joining forces with Irvine Welsh to create an...
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Calvin Harris and Irvine Welsh's HBO dance-music comedy could be hilarious
Egomaniacal knob-twisters? Self-oblivious man-children? According to the anonymous duo behind the @DJsComplaining Twitter feed, the EDM scene provides a rich comic seamRemember when you first heard...
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Guy Lodge's DVDs and downloads
Superb performances from Tom Hanks as a hijacked skipper and the late James Gandolfini as a disillusioned divorcee are among this week's DVD highlightsFor an ostensible Everyman, Tom Hanks has a...
View ArticleLetter from authors to Chris Grayling over ban on sending books to prisoners
Writers including Alan Bennett, Carol Ann Duffy and Jeffrey Archer declare support for campaign by Howard League for Penal Reform Continue reading...
View ArticlePrison book ban plot is full of holes, writers tell Chris Grayling
More major names join fight against restrictions, while justice secretary claims move is what public wantsMembers of Britain's literary establishment have combined to condemn Chris Grayling's ban on...
View ArticleEnglish readers don't need independence from Scottish writers
With a few star exceptions, London publishers are wary of writing from Scotland. But good storytelling transcends nationalityIn a newspaper interview this week, independent publisher Adrian Searle cast...
View ArticleIrvine Welsh joins team writing dystopian graphic novel
IDP: 2043, set in a benighted future Scotland, features leading writers and graphic artists including Mary Talbot and Pat MillsA graphic novel which draws a bleak vision of a future Scotland beset by...
View ArticleThe Sex Lives of Siamese Twins review Irvine Welsh blends Miami vice and...
Irvine Welsh's first all-American novel is a queasy sex comedy that pokes fun at media cultureAlthough it's as full-throatedly yucky as you'd expect from an Irvine Welsh novel even the sweat here is...
View ArticleIrvine Welsh to write Spring Breakers sequel
The Scottish author behind Trainspotting and Filth is to pen the followup to Harmony Korine's successful drama about a debauched teen getawayTrainspotting author Irvine Welsh will write the screenplay...
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