Film Features

I love heist movies, for much the same reason that I love classic detective stories: the excitement of seeing a trick slowly dissected and laid out in front of you. A proper heist movie is about deception. Yes, there’s the core element of…

"You'll simply never understand the true nature of sacrifice." May Morrison - The Wicker Man In the past number of years one old subgenre of horror movies has seen a well deserved revival: folk horror. Those movies, as the name suggests…

This has been another tough year for the movie industry. Following on from the disaster of 2020 when audiences around the world were shut out of cinemas for months at a time due to restrictions around the world, many hoped that 2021…

Does animation still look as visually unique as it once did? Some people don’t think so. Some believe that the modern animation style has fallen into one of two genres: firstly the anime aesthetic, popularised by Japanese animated content;…

Some of us don't like to be scared: there's no shame in it. Some of us are just extremely impressionable and even a film aimed at children is enough to scare us: and honestly? That's... kind of embarrassing. But no matter. Regardless of…

Remakes are a pretty contentious topic among film fans. Oftentimes they’re derided as unnecessary (such as Gus Van Sant’s 1998 shot-for-shot remake of Psycho), while equally often they’re marked down for diverging too far from the original…

“Why do you wear that stupid bunny suit?” “Why are you wearing that stupid man suit?” Donnie Darko is the type of film that reminds me of school. Not simply due to the setting, or because of the man in the giant bunny suit (long story),…

The Fox and the Hound turns 40 this year, having first graced the big screens in 1981. And there is no better time than now to dive into this Disney classic, a film which marked the last involvement of Disney's Nine Old Men, a group of…

"If I drive for you, you get your money. You tell me where we start, where we're going, where we're going afterwards. I give you five minutes when we get there. Anything happens in that five minutes and I'm yours. No matter what. Anything…

Welcome to Animation Globe where HeadStuff’s animation expert Joseph Learoyd analyses films of the form from around the world. This entry is on 1998 Taiwanese animation Grandma and Her Ghosts. From director Wang Shaudi comes this…