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A rough approximation of my thought process as I decided whether or not to see The Last Duel – "it's directed by Ridley Scott! Hooray! It's two and a half hours long! Boooooooo! It's got Adam Driver in it! Hooray! It's set in 14th century…

If you've seen any of the chat around Shiva Baby in the run-up to its release on these shores, you might have noticed the idea that it's a horror film coming up a lot. It is, of course, not a horror film. It's a comedy with an old-fashioned…

I volunteered to write this review of Tom & Jerry for bad and cynical reasons. I had heard that it wasn't very good, and I thought it might be easy and fun to write some jokes about it. When you're a film writer who is deeply insecure…

Last week saw the 2021 iteration of the all singing, all dancing European Film Promotion Shooting Stars Award (disclaimer: the singing and the dancing may or may not be metaphorical). The awards ceremony, which for over 20 years has…

You know how it is - at the start of October, you eagerly volunteer to review His House when it comes out on Netflix at the end of the month; at the end of October, His House comes out on Netflix, and Ireland plunges back into a second full…

This month, I've watched two middling Netflix originals that I didn't enjoy all that much. But I did admire bits and pieces about both of them, and feel they actually compliment each other well. One is a big, over the top blockbuster that…

One of the things I think we can all agree on about the Covid pandemic is how absolutely brilliant it has been. There's evidence for that everywhere. If you're reading this in certain parts of the world, your favourite cinema has probably…

2005 sci-fi flop AEon Flux is back in the news recently, thanks to Elon Musk and Grimes' controversial recent decision to name their baby after it. It actually makes more sense than you might think. Musk and Grimes have always been a bit of…

Let me give you a thrilling glimpse behind the scenes of the Headstuff film department. About once a month, we get sent a list of notable film anniversaries in the month ahead, and we volunteer to write about the ones that interest us. On…

Who Can Kill a Child? is one of the coolest discoveries I've ever made. It's a cult classic, but not so much of a cult classic that it's really a cult classic in name only. At the book shop I work we used to have a 'cult classics' display.…