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Courtroom Drama The Goldman Case is Both Refreshing and Relevant | IFI French Film Festival
It’s called the trial of the century. Pierre Goldman, a Jewish man of Polish origin, was previously convicted of an armed robbery that ended in a double murder. The fiercely intelligent Goldman wrote a book proclaiming his innocence and…
Keoghan Excels in Emerald Fennell’s Stylish but Undercooked Saltburn
The making of a good sandwich is a difficult thing. Sometimes even the tiniest decision can bring the entire creation down. Pairing ham with cheese? Genius! Adding pesto to some plain ol’ chicken? Wonderful! Adding raw onions to anything?…
Extreme Horror | Argentinian When Evil Lurks Scratches that Nasty Horror Itch
Patrizia Dahlia Thompson is here with the first in a new series on extreme horror! Sit back and get ready to scream!
When Evil Lurks - the fifth film from Demián Rugna - is a nasty horror film. Let me be clear, I mean that in the best…
Bottoms Movie Review | Superbad Meets Fight Club in Seligman’s Delightful Queer Comedy
Following my initial viewing of filmmaker Emma Seligman’s feature-length debut, Shiva Baby, I had a feeling that she would be a name to keep your eyes out for. Having now seen her sophomore…
Mancunian Man: The Legendary Life of Cliff Twemlow | A Touching Tribute to a Cult Hero
Cliff Twemlow may not be a name familiar to even ardent cineastes. If anyone is familiar with him, it may be more as a mythic figure. A proud Mancunian, Twemlow was a bodybuilder and nightclub bouncer in the northwest of England in the…
Enter the Clones of BruceExplores the Frequently Bizarre Subgenre of Bruce Lee Knock-offs | IFI…
Having done various breezy documentaries on off-beat cinema stories including video nasties (2004's Ban the Sadist Videos), Dan Curtis (2019's Master of Dark Shadows), Al Adamson (2019's Blood and Flesh), Nottingham lad David Gregory and…
Halloween 6 | The Defence of Michael Myers
Headstuff writers revisit memorable horror movies in the run-up to Halloween.
Just 17 years passed between John Carpenter’s original masterpiece and Michael Myers completing the Pink Panther Prophecy of Sequel Titling (Return…
Horror Revisited | From the Head in the Clouds to Getting Under the Shadow
Headstuff writers revisit memorable horror movies in the run-up to Halloween.
A brilliant horror that employs requisite jumpscares while portraying the impact of suppression and war trauma on people’s lives and psyche, Under the Shadow…
Life Itself | Synecdoche, New York Retrospective at 15
In ‘The Oval Portrait,’ Edgar Allan Poe writes of the discovery of a haunted painting in an,old château. The fable goes that its author worked ceaselessly to portray his beloved as realistically as possible, working day and night to…
Underrated Horror | Six Reviewer Recommendations for the Spooky Season
This October we asked our writers about their favourite examples of underrated horror: the underdog films that never got the recognition they deserved, the much maligned movies that are actually worthwhile despite the negative press, and…