Today on Reel Feels we're crying at the movies with actor and writer Dylan Tighe Last Cinema Cry? FOR SAMA (2019) @irishfilminstitute.bsky.social "It stands as the most intimate indictment of war I have seen on film” Read Dylan’s full piece 👉 reelfeels.substack.com/p/crying-at-...

Rounding up this week’s HeadStuff film reviews and interviews. Thanks to Ciarán and Jonathon for their brilliant contributions. Check out their work below. 🧵

I appear to be in the minority on THE SHEEP DETECTIVES, but I stand by my assertion that it’s a confused and largely laugh-free time for kids and adults alike. Three bags full of crap. My review: headstuff.org/entertainmen...

“Nic Fhionnghaile conducts herself with a fluency and self-possession that seem surprising in a young actor … manages to make even the clunkier effusions of Daly’s script sound natural” our TRAD review ✍️ Ciarán O’Rourke 🍿 in cinemas now headstuff.org/entertainmen...

“Nic Fhionnghaile conducts herself with a fluency and self-possession that seem surprising in a young actor … manages to make even the clunkier effusions of Daly’s script sound natural” our TRAD review ✍️ Ciarán O’Rourke 🍿 in cinemas now headstuff.org/entertainmen...

The one thing that 2026 desperately needs is this re-release of a movie that shows Church & State acting hand in hand to destroy a rebel leader by smearing him as a pawn of Satan, just because he made a few nuns horny. An absolute five star masterpiece, shown intact for the first time since release!

“suffers from being yet another horror film in which the terror arises from past traumas, but McCarthy’s quirky asides and genuine talent prove he’s still a horse worth backing.” our HOKUM review ✍️ Mark Conroy 🍿 in cinemas tomorrow headstuff.org/entertainmen...

Today we’re Crying at the Movies with filmmaker Ellius Grace

Last Cinema Cry? 
ONE BATTLE AFTER ANOTHER 

"Willa's existence is political, revolutionary, with so many difficult, unknowable sides — and sometimes that’s how it feels to be mixed race"

read his full peice 👉 reelfeels.substack.com

Earlier this month filmmaker Louise Weard visited Dublin for the Trans Image Trans Experience Film Festival. @hellojackwarren.bsky.social interviewed the Castration Movie director about her epic film project, letterboxd, James Joyce and more: filmindublin.ie/2026/04/27/l...

Today we’re Crying at the Movies with filmmaker Ellius Grace

Last Cinema Cry? 
ONE BATTLE AFTER ANOTHER 

"Willa's existence is political, revolutionary, with so many difficult, unknowable sides — and sometimes that’s how it feels to be mixed race"

read his full peice 👉 reelfeels.substack.com

Your HeadStuff film review roundup is here!!🧵

Anne Hathaway channels Madonna and Dua Lipa in the stylish but shockingly hollow MOTHER MARY. My review for @headstuff.bsky.social: headstuff.org/entertainmen...

Listen up, ye scuttering gobsheens! For RTÉ, I wrote about A Scare at Bedtime with Podge and Rodge. Topics include potty-mouthed puppets, vampire leprechauns and tandem motorboating Brigette Nielsen. Enjoy! www.rte.ie/culture/2026...

Listen up, ye scuttering gobsheens! For RTÉ, I wrote about A Scare at Bedtime with Podge and Rodge. Topics include potty-mouthed puppets, vampire leprechauns and tandem motorboating Brigette Nielsen. Enjoy! www.rte.ie/culture/2026...

✍️ ICYMI ✍️ I could write a book on this show, but 517 words will have to do for now. Here’s me on Bachelors Walk, 25 years on.

What curious and passionate writers we have! Always grateful to be able to publish their work. Your HeadStuff movie review roundup in here! 🪡

“Hey, remember affordable housing? Smoking in pubs? A world pre-smartphone, pre-recession, pre-The 2 Johnnies?” For RTÉ, here’s me on the many joys of BACHELORS WALK www.rte.ie/culture/2026...

“Hey, remember affordable housing? Smoking in pubs? A world pre-smartphone, pre-recession, pre-The 2 Johnnies?” For RTÉ, here’s me on the many joys of BACHELORS WALK www.rte.ie/culture/2026...

“The script here is so clunky, and [Lopez’] role/s so shallow, that she seems more an impressive apparition than an actor.” our KISS OF THE SPIDER WOMAN review ✍️ Ciarán O’Rourke 🍿 in cinemas Friday headstuff.org/entertainmen...

“Conveying authentic elderly representation, with all the actuality and optimism it deserves” our THE BLUE TRAIL review ✍️ Charlie Kendellen 🍿 in cinemas Friday headstuff.org/entertainmen...

In today’s episode, we partner with GAZE LGBTQIA Film Festival & NTA Film & TV Drama to celebrate this year’s starGAZE participants:artist Venus Patel, writer/filmmaker Jack Warren & director, screenwriter & concept artist Stephen T. Lally. Listen/Watch: www.filmireland.net/podcast-star...

New blog! Today we’re Crying at the Movies with writer-producer Jahvar McLean. Last cinema cry? My Daughter Is a Zombie “Sometimes it takes a zombie film to make you call your mother.” Read his full piece 👉 reelfeels.substack.com/p/crying-at-...

Your HeadStuff film roundup has landed just in time for your Sunday read. Thank you to all our hardworking, fast-typing writers who contributed this week. 👏

"it serves as a comforting reminder that there was a time before Vogue Williams was an omnipresent force in Irish life." Join me as I take a stroll down memory lane onto FADE STREET, a show that united the nation in shared contempt.

"while I’m not suggesting we reclaim Fade Street as a forgotten gem of Peak TV, I’m of the belief that hate-watches, like people (as Walt Whitman once told me), contain multitudes." For RTÉ Culture, here's me on the show that caused a whole nation to roll its eyes. www.rte.ie/culture/2026...

What a way to end publication day! For the Guardian, I’ve written a piece on navigating the weird and wonderful word of Muriel Spark. Read it, and do give my book a read, too. LIKE A CAT LOVES A BIRD: THE NINE LIVES OF MURIEL SPARK is out right now! 🐈‍⬛ www.theguardian.com/books/2026/a...

Bit of an announcement - I'm curating an exhibition as part of the @culturedated8.bsky.social festival. I first saw the work of local Liberties woman Valerie Gannon hanging in fruit & veg shops & newsagents on Meath Street in the 1990s... www.culturedatewithdublin8.ie/whats-on/ima...

The Rio did not disappoint — Funky-ass lobby with a box tv playing Dumbo on VHS, hip ushers and hipper clientele, a fabulous (and tall) screening room with dimmed exit signs, and gender-neutral toilets. Top marks all round!

Very pleased to be kicking off a new series of articles with @rte.ie, in which I’ll be looking back over some unsung gems of Irish telly. First up: PATHS TO FREEDOM www.rte.ie/culture/2026...

Very pleased to be kicking off a new series of articles with @rte.ie, in which I’ll be looking back over some unsung gems of Irish telly. First up: PATHS TO FREEDOM www.rte.ie/culture/2026...

Today, we're crying at the movies with film editor STEPHEN STAUNTON Last Cinema Cry? 28 YEARS LATER "At a time when I needed it, this offered something strangely comforting: Not a promise of survival, but a reminder of why life matters" Read his full piece 👉 reelfeels.substack.com/p/crying-at-...

Today, we're crying at the movies with film editor STEPHEN STAUNTON Last Cinema Cry? 28 YEARS LATER "At a time when I needed it, this offered something strangely comforting: Not a promise of survival, but a reminder of why life matters" Read his full piece 👉 reelfeels.substack.com/p/crying-at-...

I rented BARB WIRE (1996) on YouTube like a good, law-abiding citizen and was fed a horribly cropped version, all stretched out to shit. Tell me, how am I meant to fully appreciate a bald Udo Kier with half his shiny head out of frame??

"My philosophy as a voice actor is simple: the more you breathe, the more real it feels" 🎙️ Joseph Learoyd speaks with JONAH SCOTT about his wide-ranging work in anime and video games, including his performances as Legoshi in BEASTARS and Katakuri in ONE PIECE headstuff.org/entertainmen...

"Peck also highlights Orwell’s particular objection to British colonialism and imperialism, something that can become obscured when Orwell’s universality is over-emphasised" our ORWELL 2+2=5 review ✍️ Sarah Cullen 🍿 in cinemas now headstuff.org/entertainmen...

“In its uncompromising portrayal of decolonization in action, Pontecorvo’s picture no longer seems to be showing us a world we have to win, but a vanished future that might have been.” THE BATTLE OF ALGIERS at 60 ✍ Ciarán O’Rourke 📺 @criterionchannl.bsky.social headstuff.org/entertainmen...

Big thanks to all our HeadStuff writers this week for their super work! 👏👏 Behold, your Movie Review Roundup thread is here!! 👇

Big thanks to all our HeadStuff writers this week for their super work! 👏👏 Behold, your Movie Review Roundup thread is here!! 👇

"In a particularly fascinating section, Peck essentially reverse-engineers the logic of Nineteen Eighty-Four’s Newspeak to undermine the seemingly banal, neutral language that is often used in war reporting." our ORWELL 2+2=5 review ✍️ Sarah Cullen 🍿 out Friday headstuff.org/entertainmen...

THEY WILL KILL YOU has little interest in being an ‘eat the rich’ satire, which is further proof this subgenre needs to be retired indefinitely. Zazie Beetz deserves better for her first major leading role. My review for @headstuff.bsky.social: headstuff.org/entertainmen...

With a film and theatre career spanning almost forty years, ALAN GILSENAN is one of Ireland’s most prolific and revered directors of drama and documentary film. Visit our website to learn more and book tickets ➡️ https://ifi.ie/alan-gilsenan/

If your favourite part of a table quiz is the arts & culture round... well how about a table quiz that is nothing but arts & culture rounds?! That's the Get Around To It table quiz. Our next one is 13 May in Madigan's on Leeson St. Pick up your tickets here: www.eventbrite.ie/e/get-around...

The future of Oxford’s Ultimate Picture Palace – one of the UK's oldest cinemas – is under threat. Why are British property developers so interested in destroying our cultural heritage? Please read, sign and pass on! lwlies.com/this-just-in...

I can't recall a time when more talented reporters and writers on movies and culture who have real skill and knowledge are struggling to find a foothold. We live in an "Everyone's an expert" era. But everyone isn't. Editors: Please take a chance on folks you haven't tried before. Read their clips!

We’ve told all the casting agents that the Weird Al biopic sequel is currently on hold, but they just keep sending in headshots.

“… moves at a decent clip, with sufficient tension, but by the time the climax rolls around, it’s clear the film just doesn’t have anything to say.” our DEAD MAN’S WIRE review ✍️ @cynicalfilm.bsky.social 🍿 in cinemas now headstuff.org/entertainmen...

Kicking off the 10th East Asia Film Festival Ireland @irishfilminstitute.bsky.social with Agnis Shen Zhongmin’s debut, SHANGHAI DAUGHTER 🇨🇳

Would it possible for any Dublin cinema to programme a daytime screening of RESURRECTION? 🙏🙏🙏 Nothing but late evening slots across the board for its 160mins. As someone devoted to his bedtime routines, I feel targeted.

We're Crying at the Movies with critic and radio host Philip Bagnall @cynicalfilm.bsky.social Last Cinema Cry? HAMNET "I staggered out from that screening with reddened eyes, relieved to find friends who shared the same feelings just a few rows behind me" 👉 reelfeels.substack.com/p/crying-at-...

When you’re finished drinking your weight in overpriced stout, pick a movie from Seán’s list of 25 Irish films to watch this St Patrick’s Day ☘️ including recent marvels ‘That They May Face the Rising Sun’ and Brendan Canty’s IFTA-winning debut, ‘Christy’.