In A World: Cinema’s Most Innovative Trailers George Howarth September 3, 2020 Features, Opinion, Top 10 So you're a director, you've made your genre-defining debut picture, and now it's time to convince the viewing public that your film blows the other cinematic dross out of the water. But how do you prove it?...
ORWAV’s Top 20 Films of 2019: #5 – Midsommar Eddie Falvey December 30, 2019 Analysis, Features, Top 10 – 2019 has been a great year for film. As this list has illustrated and will continue to illustrate, 2019 saw bountiful returns from budding auteurs Barry Jenkins (If Beale Street Could Talk) and Greta...
Family Reunion: How Doctor Sleep Reconciles Both Versions of The Shining Phil W. Bayles November 14, 2019 Analysis, Features, Opinion The following contains spoilers for book and film versions of The Shining and Doctor Sleep. Turning a Stephen King novel into a movie is a tricky thing to pull off, even considering the great run of King...
Doctor Sleep – Review Carmen Paddock November 5, 2019 Reviews Almost forty years after Stanley Kubrick brought the Overlook Hotel to horrifying life, Mike Flanagan brings viewers right back into his world with his take on Stephen King’s sequel. By virtue of its source...
Filmworker – Review L D May 20, 2018 Reviews This film was previously reviewed on 03/10/2017 as part of London Film Festival. Leon Vitali does not refer to himself as Stanley Kubrick’s personal assistant, but an unspecific, self-effacing...
Filmworker – LFF 2017 Review L D October 3, 2017 Reviews Leon Vitali does not refer to himself as Stanley Kubrick’s personal assistant, but an unspecific, self-effacing "filmworker" instead. And that’s half the problem: Vitali’s absence from our general...
Stories from the Set: Doctor Strangelove Phil W. Bayles August 7, 2015 Behind The Curtain, Features, Stories from the Set "Mein Fuhrer... I can walk!" You don’t become one of the greatest auteurs in the history of cinema without doing a few things that make people charitably describe you as being “a few reels short of a...
What Are You Looking At: A New Age of Aspect Ratios? Tom Bond March 25, 2015 Analysis, Close-Up, Features 1 Comment What are you looking at? A laptop, a tablet, a smartphone? Whatever you’re reading these words on, it’s probably a rectangle, framing the text and the images and this article in a standard space. This...
A Beginner’s Guide To New Hollywood Eddie Falvey October 30, 2014 A Beginner's Guide To..., Analysis, Features 1 Comment New Hollywood isn’t actually that new at all; in fact, the name demarcates a period of intense creativity, crisis, and change that occurred between the late 1960s and the early 1980s within the Hollywood...
Scene Stealers: R. Lee Ermey in Full Metal Jacket Ben Murphie September 15, 2014 Analysis, Features, Scene Stealers 1 Comment “I am Gunnery Sergeant Hartman, your senior drill instructor. From now on you will speak only when spoken to and the first and last words out of your filthy sewers will be “Sir”. Do you maggots...
Stories from the Set: Spartacus Chris Davies March 18, 2014 Behind The Curtain, Features, Stories from the Set 5 Comments “I am not a political activist. When I produced Spartacus in 1959, I was trying to make the best movie I could make, not a political statement.” – Kirk Douglas Dalton Trumbo balanced his typewriter on a...
Best Films Never Made #5: Stanley Kubrick’s Napoleon Patrick Taylor December 23, 2013 Behind The Curtain, Best Films Never Made, Features 2 Comments Napoleon Bonaparte has been the subject of more film adaptations than any other historical figure. Why, some might ask, is there a need for a further edition? It is difficult not to imagine how one of...
