Film

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…

Christopher Nolan has a habit of using projects to cleanse his palette of the more typically populist outing that preceded it. Following each entry of his massively successful Dark Knight trilogy, he gave us admittedly large-scale but…

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…

Caleb Landry Jones is one-of-a-kind and not just because he's the first redhead we've covered. Beginning his career with a one line part in the Coen Brothers' No Country for Old Men he was one of several young stars to be launched from…

Oz Perkins has become something of a divisive figure within the horror community since his debut The Blackcoat’s Daughter in 2015. The son of the late horror legend Anthony Perkins (Psycho, Crimes of Passion), the filmmaker is known for his…

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…