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Harry Brown at 15 | A vigilante fantasy for Daily Mail readers
Cast your mind back to the mid to late 2000’s. The moral panic du jour in Britain was “hoodies”, the fear that the fabric of society would be destroyed by gangs of feral hooded youth. Talk of “broken Britain” fuelled asbos, countless…
Lights, Camera, Algorithm: How AI is Changing the Face of Film
A friend of mine recently said that The Marvels felt like it had been written by an AI Although I personally liked the movie, it was obvious that my friend wasn’t being complimentary. The implication was that entry number five thousand and…
Hold Fast | Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World at 20
Silence. The doldrums. A ship, the HMS Surprise, drifts on a breath of wind. Two men, teenage boys really, stand on the foredeck with spyglasses in hand. Before them, an enormous fog bank is rolling in and within it, one of these young…
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…
Night of the Living Dead Anniversary Review | Alive and Kicking 55 Years Later
Fifty-five years on from its initial release, watching Night of the Living Dead (1968) is exhilarating. The story of a group of strangers boarding themselves into an isolated farmhouse as a defence against hoards of shuffling zombies is so…
IFI & BEFF Screening | How to Blow Up a pipeline
Showing in association with The Bohemian Environmental Justice Film Festival (BEFF), the screening of How to Blow Up a Pipeline is a 2022 American action-thriller film directed by Daniel Goldhaber, will be followed by an interactive…
Report From 2023 Venice Film Festival | Irish-produced Poor Things Comes Out on Top
Buona sera, dear readers! With the awards doled out and festivities winding down, it’s time to look back at another top-notch year at the Venice Film Festival.
Boasting a stacked programme of mouth-watering premieres, the…
Animation Globe Presents Titina – Norway
Welcome to Animation Globe where HeadStuff’s animation expert Joseph Learoyd analyses films of the form from around the world. This entry is on 2022 Norwegian animation Titina.
Titina is a 2022 animated film set at the North Pole,…