No other director in the history of Hollywood has had such a sudden trajectory between fame and infamy. Three Monkeys Online encountered the legendary film-maker, Michael Cimino, director of The Deer Hunter and Heaven's Gate recently in Bolo...
Following the Spanish conquest of Mexico, cochineal was one of the most highly prized exports from the new world, second only to Gold and Silver. It's value was due to the deep and durable red dye that it produced. Historian Amy Butler Greenfield, author ...
In the wake of the London bombings, Nadeem Aslam's critically acclaimed novel Maps for Lost Lovers takes on a new relevance, set as it is in the Pakistani immigrant communities of the North of England. For Aslam, art and politics are not separate w...
Atypical heroines, parochialism, noir as a genre? All up for discussion with Oscar winning Italian director Gabriele Salvatores, on the release of his new film Quo Vadis, Baby?, a noir set in Three Monkeys Online's very own Bologna....
Emotions are rarely the subject for Historians, many of whom feel more comfortable with causality and rational responses. Professor Joanna Bourke, of Birkbeck College, London, has taken the challenge to examine, from the perspective of a cultural history,...
Nick Ryan, author of Homeland. Into a World of Hate, spent a number of years travelling amongst and interviewing individuals who collectively form a part of what we can term the "far right". Figures such as Nick Griffin of the BNP, American Preside...
The attacks on the World Trade Centre in September 2001 signalled not only the start of the war on terror, but also the start of an environmental disaster, consistently underestimated by US Government officials, that continues to affect the health and saf...
Suad Amiry's acclaimed Ramallah Diaries, published under the title Sharon and my Mother-in-Law, capture the absurdities, mundanity, and violence of living under a military occupation. Written with a keen sense of humour, the book has been a publish...
Dr. Ulf Erlingsson in his new book Atlantis from a Geographer's perspective, has located Atlantis, firmly above sea level, in Ireland. In interview he talks about his hypothesis, and the stigma attached to scientific research on the Atlantis myth....
A film on an economic and legal topic, that mixes interviews with Milton Friedman and Michael Moore, and has taken over $3 million at the box office. Sound improbable? Think again. The Corporation is one of the most talked about films around at the moment...
Greg Palast, author of The Best Democracy Money can Busy started working in journalism through frustration. He switched from his career as a racketeering investigator, frustrated that the important stories were not finding their way into the media....
They've released one of this year's most innovative and catchy albums to date, and, while being hailed by the NME as one of the greatest bands around, heap scorn on the indie rock likes of Keane. TV cop show themes colliding with big beats and live musici...
Ken Loach's film The Navigators recently got an open air screening as part of the Cinema Ritrovato festival in Bologna. How does an Italian audience react to a film about British Rail privatisation?...
Devendra Banhart's crudely recorded first album Oh Me Oh My was a huge critical success. Now with his second album, Rejoice in the hands, Three Monkeys Online attempts, with more than a little difficulty, to find out more about this Texan/Ve...
Australian Director Peter Weir recently opened the Cinema Ritrovato film festival, and took some time out to talk about the filming of his latest film Master and Commander....
George W. Bush, more than any other President, has framed his administration in moral terms. He constantly talks about duties, good and evil, right and wrong. Australian Philosopher Peter Singer decided it was time that someone examined Bush's ethics. He ...
Sweet country music from North Carolina singer-songwriter April Cope...
'50s inspired record of the moment from the female 'Pete Doherty'....
Mark Haddon describes it as "the bastard love child of The Matrix, Jaws and The DaVinci Code", and Nicole Kidman was supposedly so taken by it that she asked the author to consider changing the protagonist's gender for a film version....
Bloc Party's second album, veering close to being a concept album, but in this case, that's not such a bad thing....
Sufjan Stevens' second album as part of his 50 great states project. Illinoise is, dare we say it, a 'concept' album....
An ambitious 'novel of stories' from Chuck Palahniuk, the American author of novels like Fight Club, Diary, and Choke....
A novel set in a small, multi-cultural town during the violent dying days of the Ottoman Empire, written by English novelist, and author of Captain Corelli's Mandolin, Louis de Bernières...
The autobiography of Chechen surgeon Khassan Baiev, gives a frank and humane perspective on the war in Chechnya....
The true story of a failed assassination attempt on Richard Nixon, Directed by Nils Mueller and starring Sean Penn, Naomi Watts, and Don Cheadle....
Mike Leigh's latest film, the story of a backstreet abortionist in 1950s England, won the prize for best film and actress at last year's Venice Film Festival, and has people whispering about Oscar Nominations....
An informed and entertaining look at the history of Coffee, and its affects on different cultures, recounted by a bona fide caffeine addict....
The 11th studio album from U2, How to Dismantle and Atomic Bomb has already debuted at #1 in charts around the world, but is it any good?...
An analysis of the future of, and challenges to European integration, Prof. Stephen Haseler of London's Guild Hall University, argues that America's tenure as the World's sole superpower is drawing to a close....
A fictional conversation about killing President George W. Bush, that has outraged many, and called into question protections for freedom of speech....
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