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The Problem of Gatekeeping Irish Cinema | Can We Show Something Else?
So another year, so another St. Patrick’s Day, and what is RTE’s choice of Irish film to show on the Saturday night?
Oh Christ, not The Snapper (1993) again…
The fact is most Irish films don’t get much airplay on telly. You are far…
Netflix’s Ripley | A Stylish Noir Thriller With Teeth
“He had always understood the power of lies – how they could shape reality” The Talented Mr. Ripley, Patricia Highsmith
A lot of people will already be familiar with this story. After the success of 1999's The Talented Mr. Ripley by…
Enigmatic Drama Opponent Explores displacement and belonging for Iranian Wrestler in Sweden
Opponent opens with one man, Iman (Payman Maadi) chasing down another and beating him into unconsciousness as police sirens blare and the camera hurries to keep up with the action. The reasons for the inciting incident are hazy: and even…
EAFFI 2024 Report | An Essential Event for Those Looking to Broaden Their Cultural Horizons
Criticism is, of necessity, partial. To engage with anything is to land on one side or another, where an ambiguous response is productive of further reflection (or else more telling than a straight answer). The critic is a constitutive…
Worth Staying Up For This Creeping Horror | Late Night With the Devil Review
“That's Not Something You See Everyday - Demonic Possession On Live TV!!"
Late Night With The Devil - the third film from Cameron and Colin Cairnes - takes obvious inspiration from the seminal (and controversial) BBC film Ghostwatch.…
Sydney Sweeney’s Brief and Bloody Immaculate Captures B-Movie Spirit
Immaculate does quite a few things well, but its greatest triumph is that it's a tight 88 minutes. The movie absolutely rattles along, and when that's the case, a multitude of sins can be forgiven. And it's not as…
To Remake or Not To Remake | 5 Terrible Movies Hollywood Should Revisit
Hollywood is playing it too safe nowadays. This year, the major list of releases are one of two things: a sequel or a remake. With the sequels, there is actually a lot of excitement surrounding some of them, and perhaps rightly so. To be…
Stopmotion Movie Review | A Disturbing Meditation on Creativity and Trauma
There's a moment in a later Simpsons episode, where Bart and Lisa meet Aardman genius Nick Park. After Lisa shakes his hand, his fingers come off. He tells Lisa that he will put them back on, as he has become more clay than man now.
In…
Silver Haze Movie Review | a Compassionate Look at Working-class Life in London
A new style of filmmaking emerged in Britain in the late 1950s. Writers like John Osbourne and Alan Sillitoe worked right alongside directors like Lindsay Anderson and Ken Loach to help redefine British cinema with a new wave of…
The Late Late Late Toy Show | Imaginary Gives Horror The Ol’ College Try
The first thing I ever wrote for Headstuff, four years ago to the month, was a review of Fantasy Island, a generally reviled horror film by Jeff Wadlow that I couldn't help but be somewhat charmed by. A lot can change in four years, but I…