Film Features

Following Mark Conroy's review of Christopher Nolan's Tenet for HeadStuff, co-film editor Stephen Porzio discusses the film's place in the current cinema landscape. Has there ever been more of a burden hoisted upon a film than Tenet? Yes,…

Nowadays, with Marvel’s cinematic juggernauts regularly blowing up the box office several times a year, it’s easy to forget that there was a time when “superhero movie” meant either kiddie fare or B-movie schlock. One series that elevated…

Welcome to Animation Globe where Headstuff’s animation expert Joseph Learoyd analyses films of the form from around the world. This entry is on 1976 Italian animation Allegro Non Troppo. This 1976 film from Italy was directed by Bruno…

Let’s be honest here, video game adaptations have (usually) never gone well. Beginning all the way back in 1993 with a big budget movie based upon the hugely successful Super Mario Bros. series, production companies like Buena Vista…

“No one ever gets used to nightmares,” Mark Z. Danielewski wrote in his monstrous, unforgettable romantic horror novel House of Leaves. That’s what The Exorcist and its direct sequel The Exorcist III - the two best films of this long…

Not so long ago in the mysterious land of Toronto, Canada... Scott Pilgrim vs. The World was adapted to the silver screen by Edgar Wright. This was a first for the acclaimed British director seeing as he had only previously directed two…

A time skip is a storytelling device used in film and animation to rapidly develop the plot and characters by allowing an amount of time pass, often unseen by the viewer, leaving the audience with the aftermath of such progression. When…

Spike Lee does Netflix as did Martin Scorsese, with a very long film, this time set in contemporary Vietnam, on the legacy of the colonial wars. The focus is on a squad of African American ex-soldiers, who return to search for their…

Imitation, they say, is the sincerest form of flattery, and in the forty years since it’s release, Airplane! has been flattered by countless imitators. I have often turned to friends and asked them if they like movies about Gladiators. I’ve…

In the early 90s, Kevin Costner could do no wrong. His epic Dances With Wolves instantly put the actor-turned-director, on a pedestal in Hollywood. While it received with moderate reviews it broke big at the box office. In 1991, Dances With…