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Sarah Cullen

Sarah Cullen is a PhD student of American literature who hates all films and wants to tell you why. Her research examines representations of night time in nineteenth-century literature and her work on Frederick Douglass will be appearing in the Palgrave MacMillan collection Surveillance, Race, Culture this coming summer. She's a regular contributor at Film Ireland and the Irish Journal of Gothic and Horror Studies. You can follow her @sfdcullen

Film

Vivarium And The Room | A Glitch In the Matrix?

Sarah Cullen Jun 19, 2020 0

Back a century ago, also known as mid-March or the beginning of lockdown, two films got their general releases and they broke my brain. Mainly because they were the same movie and you can’t tell me otherwise. Some joking aside, Lorcan…

Film

Cinema Quarantino | 7 Pandemic Film Picks

Sarah Cullen Mar 18, 2020 0

With Ireland currently being encouraged to stay home and switch on Netflix (chilling optional), here at HeadStuff we figured we would only be doing our national duty in bringing you some movie recommendations. With the unsurprising news…

Literature

Literature In The Time Of Corona: Pandemics In Fiction

Sarah Cullen Mar 15, 2020 0

Already finished The Stand and World War Z and looking for more books to occupy your time during lockdown? Take a look at some lesser-known novels about plague outbreaks that might just help you pass the time – or push you further into…

Film Review

The March Sisters’ Saga Marches On | Adaptation in Gerwig’s Little Women

Sarah Cullen Jan 28, 2020 0

Louisa May Alcott’s two-part novel from 1868 and 69 is a curious beast indeed. What, in this critic’s opinion, makes it such a fascinating read is Alcott’s own ambivalence towards the whole endeavour. The same year that the first volume of…

Film

Watching In A Winter Wonderland | Our Favourite Television Christmas Specials

Sarah Cullen Dec 16, 2019 0

It's that most wonderful time of the year when we all sit down to watch the television Christmas specials we know and love. Our Headstuff writers discuss their favourite classic specials along with some curveballs to add a twist to the…

Film

Gwen Is As Haunting As Any Ghost Story | Film Review

Sarah Cullen Nov 8, 2019 0

When we first encounter the eponymous Gwen (Eleanor Worthington-Cox) she is on the cusp of an early, un-looked for adulthood. While still playing childhood games with her little sister, Mari (Jodie Innes), in the beautiful but foreboding…

Film

“You betcha, Iris.” | Drop Dead Gorgeous at 20

Sarah Cullen Jul 17, 2019 0

My first encounter with Michael Patrick Jann's Drop Dead Gorgeous was probably a couple of years after its release, on one of its televised broadcasts. I inadvertently came across the film at the very moment Tammy Curry (Brooke Elise…

Theatre

Review | beat. – Nominee for the 2019 Stewart Parker Trust Award

Sarah Cullen Jul 6, 2019 0

After a sell-out run with positive reviews at the Dublin Fringe Festival last year, Beat. got a reprieve this May in Trinity College Dublin’s Samuel Beckett Theatre to packed crowds. Larney's exploration of toxic masculinity has now been…

Film

The Bus That Couldn’t Slow Down | Speed at 25

Sarah Cullen Jun 10, 2019 0

How times have changed. Nowadays, when we think of the stars of Jan de Bont's Speed we think about how Sandra Bullock hangs out in space and Keanu Reeves has murdered everyone. But, once upon a time, back in the long-forgotten year of 1994,…

Film

Rim of the World | Less Stand by Me, More Bland by McG

Sarah Cullen Jun 2, 2019 0

Ah, summer camp. Don’t we all remember our first day, when the camp councillors somehow knew our name and focused solely on us despite all the other kids arriving? And the group leaders who taught us “black man handshakes” before everyone…

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