Philip Seymour Hoffman

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…

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…

The new film in The Hunger Games franchise, MOCKINGJAY part 1 will be released in Ireland on Thursday 20th of November. Until then we'll have to make do with trailers, speculation and Jennifer Lawrence being endlessly cool whenever she…

A Most Wanted Man is Philip Seymour Hoffman’s last major performance and is an ode to his immense capacity as a character actor, once again Hoffman reveals his obsessive dedication to his craft, and it is sad knowing now how this dedication…

HeadStuff's second ever Legend of the Month, Phillip Seymour Hoffman, died very prematurely in February 2014. Most would agree that he was not finished giving us wonderful films, but, he's gone and he only left bits behind for us. One of…

Appended Legend of the Month - Philip Seymour Hoffman I can’t remember when I first saw Philip Seymour Hoffman in a film. It might have been Boogie Nights, which, when I first watched  it, I loved because you saw boobs in it. Later, I…