retrospective

HeadStuff's new series Binge Guide sees the website's film section contributors recommend TV shows close to their heart. This entry is on My Name is Earl, in honour of its recent 15th anniversary. In these times it can be hard to see the…

If I could have it back All the time that we wasted I'd only waste it again If I could have it back You know I would love to waste it again Waste it again and again and again If there's one album that will forever define the end of my…

Let's say you want to make a breakout record, look no further than this album. It's hard to believe it’s been 20 years since Slipknot was released. If you're a Slipknot fan, you'll instantly recognise '742617000027', a frequent intro…

"I'm not Grace. That album is like a brick onto itself. It's like a coffin that I put certain feelings and observations in so that they can be capsulized forever." — Jeff Buckley 25 years after the release of Grace it remains a modern…

"Reality is only a dream, based on values and well worn principles, whereas the dream goes on forever." - Ian Curtis In June 1979, Joy Division made a monumental declaration of post-punk beauty. It came in the form of their first LP, and…

In the February 2014 issue of The Atlantic, Olga Khazan, in her article, “The Dark Psychology of Being a Good Comedian,” explores the idea of successful comedy being “a little bit wrong and a little bit right.” Another way to put it is that…

It’s almost 35 years since Peter Laird and Kevin Eastman put pencil to page on their bizarre spoof of the 80s comic book zeitgeist, creating what is undoubtedly the strangest billion-dollar pop culture phenomenon of all time. Parodying the…

"Stop talking about American things and let's watch The Greatest Movie Ever Made,"  - said Alan Partridge of The Spy Who Loved Me to a caravan full of bewildered colleagues, whom he would then berate for their lack of knowledge of the Bond…

Dún Laoghaire Harbour's ferry terminal will be used as Dublin's only drive-in cinema this March. Its opening night - 15 March 2014 - features a screening of Steven Spielberg's 1975 classic, Jaws. To coincide with this event, Padraic Coffey…