film features

"You just killed a helicopter with a car" ... "I was out of bullets" - John McClane, Die Hard 4.0 Before Bruce Willis had his charm ducts surgically removed and began headlining in an alarming amount of movies with 50 Cent, he was the…

I love Con Air. I enjoyed the first two Transformers films. Fast & Furious: Tokyo Drift is my favourite movie. And there’s nothing wrong with these things. They’re enjoyable popcorn entertainment but they’re also loud, violent and,…

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…

In the David Fincher movie The Social Network (2010), a main character announces at a party; ‘We used to live in towns and cities. Now we will live on the internet.’ These words, though spoken during a coke-fuelled shindig and created from…

15 years ago, a handsome computer-generated poster invited me to go for the ultimate spin. As a child, the first thing that delighted me about that first tantalising image of Spider-Man was how perfectly similar to his comics counterpart he…

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…

Andrew Carroll looked at Kill List's domestic disharmony. Paddy O'Leary looked at the best horror films available on Netflix. Graham Connors examined the dangerous voyeuristic gaze in the modern slasher film. Now, to bring our Halloween…

2001: A Space Odyssey (1968), Dir. Stanley Kubrick In many ways, what is there left to be said about 2001? With the exception of Citizen Kane and a handful of others, there are very few films which have had as much ink spilled over…

Having written a review on the excellent Captain Fantastic starring Viggo Mortensen, I was asked to attend a press trip designed to help promote the movie. The drama centres on a survivalist family who live off the grid in the forest of the…

Werner Herzog is one of the most unique voices in World Cinema. Rising to prominence as part of the “New German Cinema” of 1960s and 70s (along with Rainer Werner Fassbinder and Wim Wenders), he helped revitalise a culture long dormant…