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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,…
The Importance of Being Weird | May at 20
“Watcha reading about?” “Amputation”“For work?”“No. Just for fun”
May was a film that was a teenage favourite of mine. As a strange kid I could relate to May’s social awkwardness. Plus I used to show it to goth girls to try…
A Poorly-Oiled Machine With Unique Blemishes | The World’s End at 10
Edgar Wright’s The World’s End released to mass confusion in 2013. As a follow-up to cult classic Shaun of the Dead and box-office smash Hot Fuzz, it failed to capture the mainstream success or critical adoration…
Canceling the Apocalypse | Pacific Rim at 10
It would have been easy to make Pacific Rim a dumb action movie. It would have been easy to fill it with stock characters, stereotypes and shoddy CGI. But making Pacific Rim wasn’t easy. It was hard for Guillermo del Toro to take…
Not Despicable, But Not Exactly Note-Worthy | Despicable Me 2 10th Anniversary
Despicable Me 2 turns ten years old this year, and in the tradition of animated anniversaries, we'll be taking a look at it here. The thing with this movie is that I had never seen it before, and having only seen the original once, I had…
Wall-E and Its Environmentalist message | Even More Important at 15
Wall-E has always been considered a Pixar masterpiece. It is a tale of fun and discovery, one of entertainment and exploration. Yet similarly to many other Pixar films, it has a deeper message, in this case a study into the problems of…