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Stopmotion Movie Review | A Disturbing Meditation on Creativity and Trauma
There's a moment in a later Simpsons episode, where Bart and Lisa meet Aardman genius Nick Park. After Lisa shakes his hand, his fingers come off. He tells Lisa that he will put them back on, as he has become more clay than man now.
In…
Silver Haze Movie Review | a Compassionate Look at Working-class Life in London
A new style of filmmaking emerged in Britain in the late 1950s. Writers like John Osbourne and Alan Sillitoe worked right alongside directors like Lindsay Anderson and Ken Loach to help redefine British cinema with a new wave of…
The Late Late Late Toy Show | Imaginary Gives Horror The Ol’ College Try
The first thing I ever wrote for Headstuff, four years ago to the month, was a review of Fantasy Island, a generally reviled horror film by Jeff Wadlow that I couldn't help but be somewhat charmed by. A lot can change in four years, but I…
DIFF 2024 Review | Bittersweet MonsterExplores the Intimacies and Intricacies of the Human…
A building is set ablaze. A teenage boy, Minato (Soya Kurokawa) and his mother, Saori (Sakora Ando) watch as it is engulfed in flames. Saori excitedly watches fire trucks rush to its rescue, but Minato seems wholly disinterested.
This…
DIFF 2024 Review | Humanist Vampire Seeking Consenting Suicidal Person Feels Fresh, Funny and…
It’s a word salad of a title, but Humanist Vampire Seeking Consenting Suicidal Person does exactly what it says on the tin. A coming-of-age dark comedy more than a serious vampire horror, Ariane Louis-Seize’s film is a sweet and charming…
DIFF 2024 Review | Hamaguchi’s Evil Does Not Exist is A Delicate and Devastating Masterwork
A young girl walks through the forest alone. Naked limbs of trees carve up the bright sky as Eiko Ishibashi’s score swells like a scene straight from a fairy tale, but fairy tales don’t exist. A distant gunshot disturbs the peace in this…
EAFFI 2024 | The Cats of Gokogu Shrine Offers A Sweet and compassionate Study of Community
A woman ritually comes to the small coastal town of Honmachi every couple of weeks. Stressed out from work, she seeks comfort and reassurance not from praying at the town’s Gokogu Shrine but from one of its residents. He’s a cow-coloured…
EAFFI 2024 | Snow Leopard Marks A Worthy Farewell From Tibet’s Premier Filmmaker
Snow Leopard, the final film completed by Tibetan director Pema Tseden, is a drama of inaction.
A first-class protected animal in China, snow leopards can be neither killed nor captured. When one is trapped in a pen after killing nine…
Dune: Part Two Movie Review | Zendaya and Chalamet Serve Desert Power
This writer hates sand. Seriously. The very thought of sand stirs an ancient rage inside that the world has never seen the likes of before. It may be due to the association between sand and heat and as someone who could be sunburned by…
Extreme Horror | She’s a Megalomaniac In Surreal Serial Killer Feature
Content warning: discussion of rape
Karim Ouelhaj’s Megalomaniac presents us with the most twisted brother-sister combo since the Firefly clan raped and murdered their way crosscountry in The Devil's Rejects. Using the real life…