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5 days ago | headstuff.org | Sarah Cullen

When I was leaving my screening of Until Dawn I heard some cinema-goers making fun of the movie’s rather earnest message, repeated throughout, about the importance of friends sticking together. The audience members weren’t wrong to find it surprisingly naive in a movie based on a survival horror video game, but I would argue it’s because David F.

1 week ago | headstuff.org | Andrew Carroll |Andrew Carroll

“What is Jerusalem worth?” asks Balian of Ibelin (Orlando Bloom) towards the end of Ridley Scott’s 2005 crusader epic Kingdom of Heaven. “Nothing,” replies Saladin (Ghassan Massoud), Sultan of the Muslim forces. He then smiles before adding “Everything!” Distilling thousands of years of bloodshed into just two lines of dialogue Scott and screenwriter William Monahan mine pathos and relevance from an exceptionally violent and intolerant period of history.

1 week ago | headstuff.org | Sarah Cullen

Writer-Director Gemma Creagh sat down with HeadStuff to talk about her directorial debut, Conveyance, a horror-comedy short about a couple trying to navigate Ireland’s housing market. After viewing a sea-facing South Dublin apartment, Suzanne and Brian haggle for and are offered a suspiciously large discount. However, once they move in they must decide whether the pros outweigh the cons of haunted living conditions… Conveyance is screening at the Ranelagh Film Festival on Saturday the 10th of May.

1 week ago | headstuff.org | Danny Kilmartin

The best Weezer songs aren’t just the hits you already know—they’re also hiding in weird albums, awkward comebacks, and chaotic experiments. With a Blue Album movie on the way, now’s the perfect time to revisit the band’s most iconic tracks. Whether you’re a newcomer or just Weezer-curious, this guide will help you navigate their vast and baffling catalog. No irony. No algorithm-driven nonsense. Just honest, curated entry points into one of the weirdest, most inconsistent bands in alt-rock history.

1 week ago | headstuff.org | Brian Bowe

A man returns to the beach of his childhood to surf with his son. But when he butts heads with a group of tough-looking local surfers, things go from bad to worse to, well, much worse. This is the premise of The Surfer, Irish filmmaker Lorcan Finnegan’s new trippy thriller.