Film Features

“If someone vomits watching one of my films, it’s like getting a standing ovation.” - John Waters (Shock Value) This is unlike any other movie: it is a test of endurance. Pink Flamingos is a visual shock game, where you play for…

Video game movies have a bad reputation. Some of this is from video game funs upset that films make sild divergences from the source material (Super Mario Bros, for example). Some of it is that the movies are often not very good (like any…

Wayne’s World began life as a recurring Saturday Night Live sketch about two metalhead slackers who broadcast a TV show from their basement. The skits became a fan favourite part of the show, and after a proposed sketch anthology film…

This piece will contain spoilers for The Matrix Resurrections "It's all about fiction. The only world that matters is the one In here (gesturing at Neo’s head)" - The Analyst (Neil Patrick Harris) This will not be a review of The…

Welcome to ‘Voices from the Screen’. In this new section of HeadStuff’s animation coverage, our writer Joseph Learoyd will celebrate the careers of famous voice actors. Franklin Wendell Welker was born in 1946, Denver, Colorado. Since…

All glories of flesh vanish, and this, the glory of infantine beauty seen in the mirror of memory, soonest of all. Three mothers metaphorically affecting humanity – this is the fascinating basis of Thomas De Quincey’s 1845 novel,…

The post-apocalyptic genre is older than you might think. It has its roots in the “Dark Ages” of European history, after the Western Roman Empire had fallen and left its former subjects wandering around the ruins of buildings they could…

From the opening frames, there’s no doubt that Gosford Park is the work of Robert Altman. The camera, unchained, prowls through the trees. You’d be forgiven for thinking Vilmos was behind the lens. Despite this stylistic familiarity, the…

Call me a Grinch if you must, but the original 1974 Black Christmas's tie with the silly season has, over time, probably harmed its overall impact with horror audiences. Somehow or other, Black Christmas has remained overlooked in the…

  "The whole underside of our society has always been violence and still is." - Sam Peckinpah In cinema today, violence is nothing new to an audience, looking back over 50 years and things were pretty much the same. Classics…