Film Features

Upon its release in 2019, Bait was highly acclaimed by critics as a timely film. Its story of simmering tensions between tourists and locals in a Cornish fishing community was considered opportune in the context of a country divided by…

I’ve staked my semi-professional reputation on Fast and Furious 3: Tokyo Drift being the best of the long, time-bending, death-defying Fast & Furious franchise. And I stand by that statement but Fast Five is perhaps the closest of all…

Stop motion animated films have come a long way in the last couple of decades, and it’s worth a revisit when classics of the sub-genre celebrate noteworthy milestones. Henry Selick’s James and the Giant Peach is one such classic that…

I love Disney movies. They have a magical quality to them that spans generations and even the most hard-faced of people can find something to enjoy in at least one of them. Part of what makes Disney movies iconic and often grabs our…

Welcome to 'Voices from the Screen'. In this new section of HeadStuff’s animation coverage, our writer Joseph Learoyd will celebrate the careers of famous voice actors. Mel Blanc was born Melvin Jerome Blank in 1908 in San Francisco to…

Welcome to Animation Globe where HeadStuff’s animation expert Joseph Learoyd analyses films of the form from around the world. This entry is on 2007 Finnish animation Quest for a Heart. I had never seen Quest for a Heart before deciding to…

As the interminable annual tradition of debating what is and isn’t a Christmas movie starts to recede from memory, perhaps it’s time to start into the next evolution of that argument; what is and isn’t a Valentine’s movie. What could be…

By far one of the most important yet overlooked parts of the movie and animation process is sound engineering - the incorporation of music and sound effects into a film to enhance the realism and atmosphere of a scene. This is very…

"No two people see things the same way...There are very few really stark black and white stories," Jim Lehrer "That's also part of the times. Today everyone lies. Pharmaceutical fliers, governments, the radio, the movies, the newspapers.…

I recently re-watched Monsters University, the excellent prequel to the famous Monsters, Inc. It got me thinking about perseverance, a theme that runs through not just animated media but each of our lives. Never has it been more important…