"Myrid Carten’s debut feels timeless ... arguably one of the best Irish films of the decade." our A WANT IN HER review ✍️ Charlie Kendellen 🍿 in cinemas now headstuff.org/entertainmen...

"Robert Aramayo's portrayal of Davidson’s relentless struggle – his courage, trouble and decency – is delicate and wrenching." our I SWEAR review ✍️ Ciarán O’Rourke 🍿 in cinemas now headstuff.org/entertainmen...

“There’s a familiarity to the narrative conventions it relies on, but Jones’s movie has soul and grit in spades” our I SWEAR review ✍️ Ciarán O’Rourke 🍿 in cinemas from October 10 headstuff.org/entertainmen...

"A daughter’s shattering testament to her mother’s absence, presence and endurance" - Variety "ranks among the best Irish films of the decade" - Headstuff A WANT IN HER opens tomorrow at the IFI. Book now 🎟👉 https://ifi.ie/film/a-want-in-her/

Does this mean we can agree to pretend 2023’s FOE never happened? 🙏

I found THE SMASHING MACHINE to be mostly an incurious slog, but that soundtrack is killer. Any work I get done today I owe to ethereal crooner Jon Secada. 🙏 www.youtube.com/watch?v=B6Lh...

“There’s a familiarity to the narrative conventions it relies on, but Jones’s movie has soul and grit in spades” our I SWEAR review ✍️ Ciarán O’Rourke 🍿 in cinemas from October 10 headstuff.org/entertainmen...

Join us next Tuesday 14 OCT at 18.00 at ifi.ie for the first screening of the superb LOVE ON TRIAL (dir. Kōji Fukada, 2025) with an introduction by Dr. Kim-Marie Spence. TICKETS/BOOKING: ifi.ie/film/eaffi-discoveries-love-on-trail/ Support by @artscouncilireland.bsky.social

Beverly Glen-Copeland at the Button Factory in Dublin last night. That voice will clear your head and fill your soul.

"Myrid’s debut feels timeless ... a testimony to breaking free of generational trauma" A WANT IN HER review ✍️ Charlie Kendellen 🍿 out from October 10 headstuff.org/entertainmen...

'The Irish psyche, the flaws of our legal system, and humanity itself are all in play here.' our RE-CREATION review ✍️ Jonathon Boylan 🍿 Out now @omniplexcinemas.bsky.social headstuff.org/entertainmen...

In other music-related news: my morning has been rescued with the discovery that Peel Dream Magazine have just released a new (mini) album, which continues their noble ambition of melding the sounds of Belle and Sebastian with Stereolab. youtu.be/9iqD4bPrcL8?...

"The Irish psyche, the flaws of our legal system, and humanity itself are all in play here." our RE-CREATION review ✍️ Jonathon Boylan 🍿 Exclusively in Omniplex cinemas from Oct 3 headstuff.org/entertainmen...

"For all its prickly swagger, the film sands down its edges in the home stretch, opting for an ending so uncomfortably sweet it’ll have you yearning for the undiluted miserabilism of Grange Hill." Resharing my STEVE review ahead of its Netflix arrival tomorrow. headstuff.org/entertainmen...

"The Irish psyche, the flaws of our legal system, and humanity itself are all in play here." our RE-CREATION review ✍️ Jonathon Boylan 🍿 Exclusively in Omniplex cinemas from Oct 3 headstuff.org/entertainmen...

Favourite first-time watches of September 2025: • The Clock (1945) • Cairo Station (1958) • One Battle After Another (2025)

the revolution may not be televised… but it is screening on 70mm @irishfilminstitute.bsky.social ❤️

"It’s more an investigation of the Irish psyche than it is of Ian Bailey" HeadStuff's Jonathon Boylan chats with Jim Sheridan and David Merriman to discuss their experimental courtroom drama, RE-CREATION. 🍿 in Omniplex cinemas from Oct 3 headstuff.org/entertainmen...

"It’s more an investigation of the Irish psyche than it is of Ian Bailey" HeadStuff's Jonathon Boylan chats with Jim Sheridan and David Merriman to discuss their experimental courtroom drama, RE-CREATION. 🍿 in Omniplex cinemas from Oct 3 headstuff.org/entertainmen...

A terrific batch of goodies this week from our marvellous film writers — anniversaries, reviews, interviews! Yep, this is… One Article After Another! Enjoy! 🪡👇

“… hardly going to be a big player come awards season, but like the ice in the middle of a frozen lake the size of a microstate, it’s sturdier than it looks.” our DEAD OF WINTER review ✍️ Mark Conroy 🍿 in cinemas from today headstuff.org/entertainmen...

“… hardly going to be a big player come awards season, but like the ice in the middle of a frozen lake the size of a microstate, it’s sturdier than it looks.” our DEAD OF WINTER review ✍️ Mark Conroy 🍿 in cinemas from today headstuff.org/entertainmen...

ONE BATTLE AFTER ANOTHER is out tomorrow 💥🎞💥🎞 See it on glorious 70mm @irishfilminstitute.bsky.social then check out Philip’s similarly glorious review below 👇

"an uncompromisingly honest account of the struggles of life in rural Ireland and the transformative effects of grief." our SUNPHLOWERS review ✍️ Jonathon Boylan 🍿 in Irish cinemas from Friday headstuff.org/entertainmen...

In partnership with BFI, the fine folk at Belfast's QFT will be running a fab season of film celebrating the visual excess & dramatic potency of melodrama. Kicks off Oct 4 with FAR FROM HEAVEN, finishing Dec 7 with a 35mm showing of THE MAGNIFICENT AMBERSONS. queensfilmtheatre.com/seasons/too-...

"an uncompromisingly honest account of the struggles of life in rural Ireland and the transformative effects of grief." our SUNPHLOWERS review ✍️ Jonathon Boylan 🍿 in Irish cinemas from Friday headstuff.org/entertainmen...

She has arrived! 🙌

Once upon a time, rawly political and energized films were a dime a dozen in American cinema. Paul Thomas Anderson chooses a none-more-apt time to tap that vein in the brazen, batshit, brilliant ONE BATTLE AFTER ANOTHER. In cinemas Friday. SEE IT. My review: headstuff.org/entertainmen...

Went into HAPPYEND at the Lighthouse Cinema yesterday. Two hours later I emerge with a new hypnotic soundtrack to help me disassociate during my grim morning commutes. Thank you, Lia Ouyang Rusli -- you’re a credit to the human race and a blessing to Dublin Bus passengers.

“I had tears pouring down my face... I was sobbing and going mad" Our own Jonathon Boylan chatted with Anne McCrudden & Abigail O’Regan ahead of the release of their new film SUNPHLOWERS. 🍿 in Irish cinemas from Friday headstuff.org/entertainmen...

First-time watch of ‘Three Days of the Condor,’ and you really gotta feel for Cliffy here, going toe-to-toe with peak-hair Redford with what looks like a dried-out lump of turf on his head. Downright cruel from Pollack.

That ripple of nausea you get when someone lays down a po-faced “I appreciate you” after you’ve performed a base-level act of human interaction, that’s A BIG BOLD BEAUTIFUL JOURNEY but for a hundred-or-so minutes …

No love for underated romcom spoof sensation They Came Together (2014)?? 😐

Big thanks to all our HeadStuff contributing writers! It's been a jam-packed week for movie reviews. Feast your eyes on this here roundup 👇

“sustaining a tone of thoughtful understatement that settles like a spell … watching The Swallow is a curiously entrancing experience.” our THE SWALLOW review ✍️ Ciarán O’Rourke 🍿 in Irish cinemas tomorrow headstuff.org/entertainmen...

“sustaining a tone of thoughtful understatement that settles like a spell … watching The Swallow is a curiously entrancing experience.” our THE SWALLOW review ✍️ Ciarán O’Rourke 🍿 in Irish cinemas tomorrow headstuff.org/entertainmen...

"an aspirational story of positive masculinity in a bleak unforgiving world, and perhaps that’s as much as we can hope for in these times." our review of THE LONG WALK ✍️ Sarah Cullen 🍿 in cinemas now headstuff.org/entertainmen...

And let's not forget about this gem!

"From the cosmic deadpanning of Oppenheimer to his richly internalised performance in Small Things..., the captivating stillness which has come to typify Murphy’s on-screen persona has finally been broken through" our STEVE review ✍️ Brian Bowe 🍿 in cinemas Sep 19 headstuff.org/entertainmen...

"From the cosmic deadpanning of Oppenheimer to his richly internalised performance in Small Things..., the captivating stillness which has come to typify Murphy’s on-screen persona has finally been broken through" our STEVE review ✍️ Brian Bowe 🍿 in cinemas Sep 19 headstuff.org/entertainmen...

THE CLOCK (1945) — Garland’s first non-musical had my heart singing.

Dublin screening today — followed by a Q&A with Trisha Ziff and Gerry Adams, as part of the IFI Documentary Film Festival @irishfilminstitute.bsky.social 🎟️ 🎟️ ifi.ie/film/ifi-doc...

"If this is first and foremost a (self-)portrait, we quickly understand, in the North of Ireland, like anywhere else, the personal and political cannot but overlap." our review of GERRY ADAMS: A BALLYMURPHY MAN ✍️ Ciarán O'Rourke headstuff.org/entertainmen...

Catching up on Big Gene blindspots has led me to ALL NIGHT LONG (1981) - sexy, sophisticated fluff that shines whenever Babs is in control and pushing Hackman’s buttons Unfortunately that’s only half the movie. The latter switches out the dramatic tension and throws away much of the fun.

Has any film before or since made such a compelling case for peaking at middle age? I’ve remained immune to Nolte’s crispy yeti sex appeal for most of my life, but now I get it!