Film Review

The real beauty of modern cinema is that just when you least expect it, something like Yann Gonzalez's Knife + Heart emerges from the depths of the underground and demands your utmost attention. A cinematic statement that refuses to follow…

Zen in the Ice Rift, an Italian drama from writer-director Margherita Ferri, opens quite strikingly. We first see non-binary teenager Maia 'Zen' Zenardi (Eleonora Conti) give the middle-finger to the audience. This is before walking up to a…

Social media has opened so many doors which cannot be closed. People invest too much in an alternate reality.  The sinister Black Mirror episode Nosedive is testimony to the Orwellian direction we are heading, where ‘Likes’ equal status and…

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. Most Anticipated – Jojo Rabbit, Dir Taika Waititi Thanks to San Diego Comic Con and…

If you take anything away from The Chambermaid, let it be the effort that goes into preparing a hotel room. Duvets must be changed, pillows flattened, toilets cleaned, baths scrubbed, drawers emptied, amenities restocked, and this goes for…

“We were playing in Ireland and the reception was so warm that tears came to my eyes and I thought ‘I can’t be seen weeping at this point - then I turned around and saw the guitar player weeping.” - Leonard Cohen, speaking of his 2008…

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. Most Anticipated – Knives Out, Dir Rian Johnson Fresh from pissing off half the world…

Have you ever wondered what Alfred Hitchcock's Vertigo would look like drenched in Cronenbergian atmosphere and surrealism only to be fused together with Takashi Miike's Audition and Jennifer Lynch's Boxing Helena? If your answer is an…

We've all seen the rom-com where the man pretends to be something he's not to impress the woman he's interested in. Premiering at the Galway Film Fleadh, coming-of-age story Adam takes this one-step further. Based on a novel from Ariel…

In Anton Chekhov’s The Bet, a young lawyer bets he can survive fifteen years of imprisonment. A banker says he can’t, and bets two million rubles. In fifteen years of solitary confinement, the lawyer reads many books and gets enlightened.…