Tom Caffrey🧛

dr of murakami studies, eel enthusiast, husband

[Tom Caffrey🧛 @sandwormstan]

@cabanadrives5 Wrote about this exact thing recently. Resi Retribution is closer to Baudrillard than The Matrix ever was 🫪 https://t.co/NrKDXRciyY

[Tom Caffrey🧛 @sandwormstan]

@deathofmeaning Typhoon Club and Tony Takitani both worth adding to this

[AFP News Agency @AFP]

🇯🇵 Haruki Murakami's first novel in three years will hit shelves in Japan in July, starring a woman as the main character for the first time, his publisher has said.
➡️ https://t.co/gWPslXAhuT

[Tom Caffrey🧛 @sandwormstan]

🔺 Silent Hill turns 20 🔺
A few words for @ThisHeadStuff about a film that I keep returning to.
The best videogame to film adaptation? Probably!

https://t.co/de9XvTw9kH

[Tom Caffrey🧛 @sandwormstan]

@cabanadrives5 Let me know what you think 🫡

[Tom Caffrey🧛 @sandwormstan]

@cabanadrives5 Wrote about this exact thing recently. Resi Retribution is closer to Baudrillard than The Matrix ever was 🫪 https://t.co/NrKDXRciyY

[Tom Caffrey🧛 @sandwormstan]

One of the highlights of DIFF2026!

[ᗷᖇiᗩᑎ ᗷOᗯE @thedrivein_]

“a dream worth sinking into”

From @DublinFilmFest, our RESURRECTION review

✍️ Thomas Caffrey
🍿 in cinemas March 13

https://t.co/G8aDAkMovF

[ᗷᖇiᗩᑎ ᗷOᗯE @thedrivein_]

“an insane film that succeeds its predecessors in just about every way, perfectly setting the scene for a grand finale”

Our RESIDENT EVIL retrospective continues with RETRIBUTION.

✍️ @sandwormstan

https://t.co/p0DQfhhurV

[ᗷᖇiᗩᑎ ᗷOᗯE @thedrivein_]

"... easily the most digital the franchise has felt to this point, and in ways both good and ill, it sets the tone for the remaining installments."

@sandwormstan's journey through Paul WS Anderson's Resident Evil franchise continues with AFTERLIFE:

https://t.co/HkEWe4Fme9

[Tom Caffrey🧛 @sandwormstan]

Happy to see my review of @RTSHmovie has been published with HeadStuff. If it's still showing near you, take a look - one of the strangest horror films in years. Not entirely successful, but always intriguing
https://t.co/PCyd0iyP5l

[Tom Caffrey🧛 @sandwormstan]

Join me over at @ThisHeadStuff as I revisit each installment of the RESIDENT EVIL film series in anticipation of @ResidentEvil : REQUIEM.

[ᗷᖇiᗩᑎ ᗷOᗯE @thedrivein_]

As the RESIDENT EVIL series gears up to celebrate its thirtieth year, join us at HeadStuff as Thomas Caffrey revisits Paul W.S. Anderson’s ambitious six-film adaptation of the iconic gaming franchise.

✍️ @sandwormstan

https://t.co/8D0qWurZzP

[ᗷᖇiᗩᑎ ᗷOᗯE @thedrivein_]

We asked our writers for their top movies of 2025. The following selection is made up of their unique choices (titles that ranked high on the fewest lists) — featuring me gushing over my favourite movie of the year!

Here’s to the outliers!

https://t.co/vFhfnlmfWK

[Censored Humans @CensoredHumans]

“If you are in support of Pal€stine🇵🇸, then you are breaching conditions & you can be arrested.”

“& if we are in support of 1$rael, we can stay?”

“Yes, Yes”

[Joyce Carol Oates @JoyceCarolOates]

"wherever he goes, he wants to leave"-- that's because when he gets there, he has brought his own self along; & whatever club he's invited to join has been devalued by the invitation.

[Dublin City University @DCU]

Why have anime films become such big box office hits?
For Japan, entertainment like anime, manga, and video games are the embodiment of soft power.
Piece by Dr Thomas Caffrey @sandwormstan, @DCUSchoolofEng, for @RTEBrainstorm.
Read here: https://t.co/d3YGqcByup
#RTEBrainstorm

[RTÉ Brainstorm @RTEBrainstorm]

Why have anime films become such big box office hits? For Japan, entertainment like anime, manga, and video games are the embodiment of soft power, writes @sandwormstan @DCU https://t.co/jKw7AmrdhJ

[ᗷᖇiᗩᑎ ᗷOᗯE @thedrivein_]

"a surprisingly hard-edged and merciless chiller in which no character is safe"

our ATTACK 13 review

✍️ Thomas Caffrey @sandwormstan
🍿 Screening Friday Oct 24 as part of IFI Horrorthon 2025 @IFI_Dub

https://t.co/PQV6Q1CLnl

[Daniel Lambert @dlLambo]

Sally Rooney 👏👏👏

"Because of my support for non-violent anti-war protest I'm advised I can no longer enter the UK without facing arrest"

[ᗷᖇiᗩᑎ ᗷOᗯE @thedrivein_]

“Farrell and Robbie, usually such energetic performers, are curiously muted here … when they do eventually emote, it feels incongruous with the distant and aloof affect previously established”

A BIG BOLD BEAUTIFUL JOURNEY

✍️ @sandwormstan
🍿out now

https://t.co/yff62iKrBe

[Dr Ellen Howley @LN_howley]

A great piece from TCD colleagues advocating resistance to AI. The beauty of learning comes in the process of thinking, the unexpected connections, time spent reading closely; all things that GenAI prevents.