Film Features

There is nothing better than ringing in the New Year with laughter and good cheer. But be careful who and what you choose to laugh at – not every joke is told with the best of intentions. Indeed, the final week of 2023 was bookended by the…

I have returned home! Well, physically, at least. My mind, along with all the money I spaffed on outrageously expensive flat whites and too many pastries, remains in the city of Rotterdam. Keep ‘em, I say! This was my first time…

Content warning: here be spoilers (I guess), and discussions of depictions of extreme content. This is extreme horror. Discretion is advised. In this instalment of my series on extreme horror, we're going deeper, diving into the work of…

Since its inception in 2003, the Dublin International Film Festival (DIFF) has endeavoured to bring the best of international cinema to Irish audiences, and the 2024 slate is no exception. With films from some of the most exciting…

Cast your mind back to the mid to late 2000’s. The moral panic du jour in Britain was “hoodies”, the fear that the fabric of society would be destroyed by gangs of feral hooded youth. Talk of “broken Britain” fuelled asbos, countless…

A friend of mine recently said that The Marvels felt like it had been written by an AI Although I personally liked the movie, it was obvious that my friend wasn’t being complimentary. The implication was that entry number five thousand and…

Silence. The doldrums. A ship, the HMS Surprise, drifts on a breath of wind. Two men, teenage boys really, stand on the foredeck with spyglasses in hand. Before them, an enormous fog bank is rolling in and within it, one of these young…

Headstuff writers revisit memorable horror movies in the run-up to Halloween. Just 17 years passed between John Carpenter’s original masterpiece and Michael Myers completing the Pink Panther Prophecy of Sequel Titling (Return…

Headstuff writers revisit memorable horror movies in the run-up to Halloween. A brilliant horror that employs requisite jumpscares while portraying the impact of suppression and war trauma on people’s lives and psyche, Under the Shadow…

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…