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Andrew is a writer, podcaster, editor and civil service goon based in Dublin, Ireland. He has written for The University Observer in UCD, Film Ireland, TheCity.ie and HeadStuff. He is the editor of the HeadStuff Gaming section but spends more time playing games than he does writing about them. With friend and HeadStuff film editor Stephen Porzio he is also the co-creator and co-host of the world's only character actor podcast I Know That Face on the HeadStuff Podcast Network. You can stroke his ego or besmirch his good name on Twitter @Andrew_Carroll0.

Film

Guns, Goons and Carrots? | Shoot Em Up Turns 10 Years Old

Andrew Carroll Sep 7, 2017 0

“Eat your vegetables,” he says before punching a carrot through the back of a nameless goon’s head. That’s basically what Shoot Em Up is. An eighty-four-minute masterclass in how to kill people with bullets and vegetables. In 2007 the world…

Film

Vile, Depraved, Disgusting, Horrific & Tasteless | Shock Horror The Last House on the Left…

Andrew Carroll Aug 30, 2017 0

Vile. Repugnant. Filthy. Depraved. Ugly. Disgusting. Gross. Nasty. Horrific. Tasteless. All of these words and more describe horror maestro Wes Craven’s debut feature The Last House on the Left pretty well. It is a nasty film that has been…

Film

Death, Time and Grief | A Film Review of A Ghost Story

Andrew Carroll Aug 9, 2017 0

The older we get the faster time moves. It waits for no man, as the saying goes, but what if that only applies to the living? How does time treat the dead? How does it treat their memories, the spaces they occupy and all that they leave…

Film

The Brady Bunch Go Savage | The Hills Have Eyes at 40.

Andrew Carroll Jul 22, 2017 0

In sixteenth Century Scotland, Sawney Bean and his inbred family of cave-dwelling cannibals were captured and executed for over a thousand murders. King James had them rounded up and executed by hanging, burning and disembowelment. That’s…

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Obvious Darkness & Hidden Light | Sunshine on its 10th Anniversary

Andrew Carroll Jul 20, 2017 0

We live because of the Sun. Ancient cultures worshipped it. Our solar system relies on its gravity. We use it to tell time. It is necessary for all life to exist, thrive and flourish. But the Sun can also kill us. It will kill us one day.…

Food & Drink

The Rise and Rise of Chain Coffee in Dublin

Andrew Carroll Jul 14, 2017 0

Andrew Carroll looks at the increasing amount of chain coffee stores cropping up throughout Dublin. Are there two sides to every story? There’s an episode of The Simpsons where Bart goes to the mall to get his ear pierced. Surrounding him…

Film

Manufactured Memories and Neo-Noir: Blade Runner at 35

Andrew Carroll Jun 25, 2017 0

Rutger Hauer, while attending a 2012 Italian film festival in Milan, said of Blade Runner: “Thirty years ago I saw the future.” Now the world might not yet be an industrial wasteland populated by genetically engineered constructs and…

Film

Put the Bunny Back in the Box | Con Air at 20

Andrew Carroll Jun 6, 2017 0

I love Con Air. I enjoyed the first two Transformers films. Fast & Furious: Tokyo Drift is my favourite movie. And there’s nothing wrong with these things. They’re enjoyable popcorn entertainment but they’re also loud, violent and,…

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Leather, Petrol, and Muscle | Mad Max 2: The Road Warrior at 35

Andrew Carroll May 21, 2017 0

In the late 1970s George Miller was an A&E doctor in Australia. Inspired and horrified by road traffic accidents and the state of the world at large he went on to write and direct the cult classic Mad Max in 1979. Spurred on by its…

Film

Journalism on Film |4| Putting Gonzo Onscreen in Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas

Andrew Carroll May 20, 2017 0

HeadStuff is currently publishing a series of weekly articles on how the journalistic process is depicted on film – the intense research involved in the practice, the time it takes to articulate a story, and the false intimacies that come…

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