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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…

We all love to be scared. Even those people who refuse to watch horror movies because they get too scared still have the urge to peek at their TV screens behind the security of their couch pillows. Horror, more often than not, works so…

After a tumultuous couple of years, reality has done well in catching up with the bleak speculative-tech fictions of Black Mirror and Weird City. Not that we’ve seen the end of this ilk of dystopian fiction on our screens, but it does seem…

It’s hard not to feel jealous of my parents when they were my age. Maybe they were more bored without the internet. Maybe they were happier though. Maybe they don’t feel the same unease, fear, and rage as I do when I roll out of bed in the…

Before David Fincher's cinematic debut in 1992, he had become a notoriously prolific figure among the music video business, having directed over 50 music videos since 1984, working with the likes of Nine Inch Nails, Sting, Michael Jackson…

"This is your life and it’s ending one minute at a time" - Tyler Durden One of the most misunderstood movies of the last 20 years is undoubtedly David Fincher's modern cult classic Fight Club. Yes, it's easy to linger on the violence, an…

Netflix, and their Midas touch for enthralling audiences with twisted entertainment, has once again struck creative gold. If season two of Mindhunter was condensed with the same impact into a movie, it would land in Oscar territory. All the…

How do we judge a filmmaker? Is it by the number of awards they have won? Is it by the amount of films they have made? Is it in the way they transfer character, settings and story from page to screen? If it’s David Fincher we’re talking,…

The history of the action-comedy weighs heavy on Game Night. Flops like R.E.D and Pineapple Express or the more recent CHiPs drag the genre down. They often suffer from leaning too heavily into poorly cut action or flatlining comedy. But…

HeadStuff is currently publishing a series of weekly articles on how the journalistic process is depicted on film – the intense research involved in the practice, the time it takes to articulate a story, and the false intimacies that come…