Film Features

Animal House turns forty this year and it was the paradigm of an entirely new genre: the college movie. The movie is tasteless, but that’s part of its message.  The first of a new iteration has the most fascinating layers to it because what…

This past weekend's Comic-Con in San Diego saw the first footage of M. Night Shyamalan's follow-up to both 2016's Split & 2000's Unbreakable. Glass will in released January 2019 yet the trailer released has stoked interest in one of the…

Curracloe, 1997 In the summer of 1997 I was 14 years old. School was out and as June crept into July the weather began turning fine, into what I might now refer to as “halcyon days”, where I hadn’t a care in the world. Wexford had…

Its not a “good” film, but that’s not what makes Mama Mia! so interesting and even, inspirational. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CiVnD9i7BpE The film is based of the West End musical, where the songs are crammed in order to get something…

Cyberpunk anime are as common in Japan as period dramas are in the UK. At least three are produced every year. More if people are especially concerned about the unstoppable forward march of technology. The influence for all these anime…

New Trailers on Headstuff is the place to catch up on all the latest teasers released in the world of Film and TV. Stephen Porzio tells you what’s hot and not. This time, there is two different types of insane: Queen Anne and Nicolas Cage…

Sean Connery ’s career ended with a whimper not a bang. The League of Extraordinary Gentleman was the famed Scottish actor’s last film before he went into retirement. It might be one of his worst. A mishmash of Victorian characters from…

In the sticky heat of a 2007 Summer's day, two friends and I felt the wind at our backs as we set sail from Dun Laoghaire to Dalkey on my friend's boat (cheerfully named 'The Modeste'). We balked as he swigged from a seemingly out of date…

In recently published plans, NASA suggested that the risk of an asteroid striking the Earth is small but such a hit would be very, very bad. The American space agency has some ideas for dealing with this threat but they don’t include asking…

Pirates of the Caribbean may now be a billion-dollar franchise, but the first film was a strange proposition when it was released 15 years ago. Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl, to give it its full title, was inspired…