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Tom Caffrey🧛

@sandwormstan

dr of murakami studies, eel enthusiast, husband

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Joined February 2017
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僕のバイブルでした。 R.I.P.
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村上龍氏　ご逝去のお知らせ   作家の村上龍氏が2026年10月17日に　自宅で逝去されました　享年74歳 ここに謹んで哀悼の意を表し　ご報告申し上げます 葬儀におきましては　家族葬として執り行われました   『限りなく透明に近いブルー』に始まり　常に若い世代に向けて衝撃的な作品を発表し続けた村上龍氏の早すぎる逝去の報せを受け　深い悲しみに堪えません 時代のトップランナーとして疾走した同氏の安らかな眠りをお祈り申し上げます   有限会社村上龍事務所 株式会社幻冬舎編集本部
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Video: A Haruki Marukami mega fan reacts with sadness to the announcement that his favorite novelist did not win this year's Nobel Prize for Literature. In their haste to create an announcement sign, someone misspelled the name of the winner, Anne Carson.

【ノーベル文学賞】発表の瞬間を待つ放送紀伊國屋書店 新宿本店より生中継村上春樹受賞なるか

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Tom Caffrey🧛@sandwormstanApr 6
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Wrote about this exact thing recently. Resi Retribution is closer to Baudrillard than The Matrix ever was 🫪 headstuff.org/entertainment/…
Biohazard, Baudrillard, & Hyperreal Horror | Resident Evil: Retribution - HeadStuff

Biohazard, Baudrillard, & Hyperreal Horror | Resident Evil: Retribution - HeadStuff

Thomas Caffrey reads Resident Evil: Retribution - the most satisfying of the bunch - through the lens of philosopher Baudrillard.

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🇯🇵 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. ➡️ u.afp.com/SaZN
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🔺 Silent Hill turns 20 🔺 A few words for @ThisHeadStuff about a film that I keep returning to. The best videogame to film adaptation? Probably! share.google/uV0TQadNHwjuPhp…
Silent No More: Silent Hill turns 20 - HeadStuff

Silent No More: Silent Hill turns 20 - HeadStuff

Thomas Caffrey wanders back into the mists of Christophe Gans' Silent Hill, the 2006 supernatural horror film based on the iconic video game

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One of the highlights of DIFF2026!
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“a dream worth sinking into” From @DublinFilmFest, our RESURRECTION review ✍️ Thomas Caffrey 🍿 in cinemas March 13 headstuff.org/entertainment/…
DIFF 2026 Review | Resurrection – Bi Gan’s dream odyssey impresses and baffles in equal measure -...

DIFF 2026 Review | Resurrection – Bi Gan’s dream odyssey impresses and baffles in equal measure -...

Thomas Caffrey reviews Bi Gan's Resurrection, a sci-fi odyssey in which a dreamer travels through history in different guises

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“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 headstuff.org/entertainment/…
Biohazard, Baudrillard, & Hyperreal Horror | Resident Evil: Retribution - HeadStuff

Biohazard, Baudrillard, & Hyperreal Horror | Resident Evil: Retribution - HeadStuff

Thomas Caffrey reads Resident Evil: Retribution - the most satisfying of the bunch - through the lens of philosopher Baudrillard.

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"... 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: headstuff.org/entertainment/…
Resident Evil: Afterlife | Paul WS Anderson Respawns - HeadStuff

Resident Evil: Afterlife | Paul WS Anderson Respawns - HeadStuff

In this series Thomas Caffrey revisits Paul WS Anderson’s six-film adaptation of the Resident Evil franchise, next up: Resident Evil Afterlife

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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 headstuff.org/entertainment/…
Restless Dreams | Return to Silent Hill - HeadStuff

Restless Dreams | Return to Silent Hill - HeadStuff

Thomas Caffrey reports that unlike its predecessor, Return to Silent Hill is a missed opportunity that doesn't bridge the adaptation gap.

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Join me over at @ThisHeadStuff as I revisit each installment of the RESIDENT EVIL film series in anticipation of @ResidentEvil : REQUIEM.
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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 headstuff.org/entertainment/…
Resident Evil (2002) Retrospective: Through the Looking Glass - HeadStuff

Resident Evil (2002) Retrospective: Through the Looking Glass - HeadStuff

For the first instalment of his Resident Evil Retrospective, Thomas Caffrey revisits Paul W.S. Anderson's first film in the saga from 2002.

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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! headstuff.org/entertainment/…

Best movies you might've missed in 2025 - HeadStuff

We asked our writers for their top movies of 2025. This list comprises their unique choices: titles that ranked high on the fewest of ballots

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“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”
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"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.
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Wherever he goes, he wants to leave: SA, Canada, ultimately the U.S. in the long run, based on his behavior. This also includes Earth. A continuous disavowal of your home is odd, to say the least. He seems to have no capacity for a normal level of appreciation.
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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: launch.dcu.ie/3WtwdCI #RTEBrainstorm
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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 rte.ie/brainstorm/2025/1022/…
Why have anime films become such big box office hits?

Why have anime films become such big box office hits?

For Japan, entertainment like anime, manga, and videogames are the embodiment of soft power

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"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 headstuff.org/entertainment/…
IFI Horrorthon 2025 review | hard-edged teen horror Attack 13 is a merciless chiller - HeadStuff

IFI Horrorthon 2025 review | hard-edged teen horror Attack 13 is a merciless chiller - HeadStuff

Thomas Caffrey reviews Taweewat Wantha's refreshingly direct teen horror Attack 13, playing Oct 24 as part of IFI Horrorthon 2025.

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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" – at Dublin City, Ireland
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“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 headstuff.org/entertainment/…
A Big Bold Beautiful Journey adds up to a modest, mild, somewhat pretty trip - HeadStuff

A Big Bold Beautiful Journey adds up to a modest, mild, somewhat pretty trip - HeadStuff

Thomas Caffrey goes on A Big Bold Beautiful Journey, directed by Kogonada, starring Colin Farrell and Margot Robbie

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Dr Ellen Howley@LN_howley4 Sep 2025
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.
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Opinion: We are lecturers in Trinity College Dublin. It is our responsibility to resist AI irishtimes.com/opinion/2025/…
Opinion: We are lecturers in Trinity College Dublin. It is our responsibility to resist AI

Opinion: We are lecturers in Trinity College Dublin. It is our responsibility to resist AI

Even if all the known issues were magically resolved, we would still not want our students to use GenAI

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