Arrival

As the 2010s have wound to a close, HeadStuff gathered the collective minds of our Film section to bring you our picks for the best sci-fi movies of the decade. Below are #20 to #1. 20. Predestination After two solid sci-fi/horrors -…

Greetings reader. How’s your week going? Has it been a funny week? Was it “ha ha” funny or “weird numbness in my elbow” funny? Either way, this week’s digest should increase your “ha ha” quotient and you should always keep an eye on your…

I know, I know, we've been neglecting you, and we're still undecided as to the overall direction of this podcast, but we just had to make an episode for Oscars 2017, so here we are. If you listened to our InHouse Oscar podcast from last…

As my colleague Adam Duke noted in his excellent review of The Light Between the Oceans, it’s that time of year where the Academy Awards are on the mind of every film fan, whether they like it or not. During this period, studios begin…

There’s nothing wrong with PG-13 rated genre pieces - in many ways they’re all that’s keeping modern Hollywood afloat - and they can be hugely enjoyable and thoroughly cinematic. Nonetheless, it is refreshing to see that once a year or so,…

Packed, packed house this week in the NO ENCORE studio as film critic and American sports enthusiast Dave Higgins makes his grand return to the podcast and oft-referenced friend of the show Joshua Hughes comes in from the Toronto cold to…

There's a daunting strangeness to much of Arrival, Denis Villeneuve's will they/won't they alien invasion movie. There is awe here but it's mixed with dread. It's not Spielbergian, childish awe but the awe of encountering something that may…