Music of the Movies: John Carney Calum Baker May 20, 2016 Behind The Curtain, Features, Music of the Movies After a great reception at this year's Sundance, John Carney's latest film Sing Street sees the writer-director's audience potentially the largest it's ever been. Of course, even the most seasoned of...
Top 10 Most Exciting Cannes Competition Films 2016 Calum Baker May 11, 2016 Analysis, Features, Top 10 Regular ORWAV readers will know how much we love the Cannes Film Festival. We're even returning this year, to cover even more exciting ground than 2015 - and 2015 was pretty exciting. Dheepan won the Palme...
Louder Than Bombs – Review Calum Baker April 24, 2016 Reviews As with his previous film, Oslo, August 31st, Joachim Trier's finest directing moments in Louder Than Bombs come with voiceovers and memories, plus one excellent extended party sequence. For his English...
The Man Who Knew Infinity – Review Calum Baker April 10, 2016 Reviews Like its screenplay, The Man Who Knew Infinity’s score is essentially a "best-of-this-sort-of-thing" – twee and pseudo-inspirational, over-egged and half-baked. Most every line of dialogue is a trailer...
Anomalisa – Review Calum Baker March 12, 2016 Reviews Charlie Kaufman's brilliance lies in his careful depictions of inertia and mundanity; his previous directing outing, Synecdoche, New York, piled such boredom up to its existential breaking-point with...
The ORWAV Playlist – Oscars 2016 Calum Baker February 28, 2016 Behind The Curtain, Features, Music of the Movies For the second year in a row, we've created a big bumper-size playlist for you to whack on in advance of tonight's Academy Awards! What more can we say, other than "enjoy, hope you have fun, hope you're not...
The ORWAV Playlist – February 2016 Calum Baker February 4, 2016 Behind The Curtain, Features, Music of the Movies Every four weeks, ORWAV explores the movie month ahead through the medium of song! Upcoming releases, notable births and anniversaries and a general celebration of the films, directors, technicians and...
Spotlight: Tom McCarthy Calum Baker February 2, 2016 Analysis, Features, Spotlight Tom McCarthy is known for many things: he’s a critically well-liked writer-director whose most recent film, Spotlight, is garnering accolades around the world. He’s a very recognisable “That guy!”...
Top 10 Acting Ensembles Calum Baker January 27, 2016 Analysis, Features, Top 10 Ensembles are no longer that rare a beast; since the near out-and-out collapse of the star system and the slow ascension of sheer product to the upper echelons of movie marketability, mid-budget films have...
The ORWAV Playlist – January 2016 Calum Baker January 13, 2016 Behind The Curtain, Features, Music of the Movies Every four weeks, ORWAV explores the movie month ahead through the medium of song! Upcoming releases, notable births and anniversaries and a general celebration of the films, directors, technicians and...
Top 20 Films of 2015: 9. The Look of Silence Calum Baker December 23, 2015 Analysis, Features, Top 10 "If I came to you like this during the military dictatorship - what would you have done to me?" "You can't imagine what would have happened." I'll start by pointing out something fortuitous: the focus of...
The ORWAV Playlist – December 2015 Calum Baker December 4, 2015 Behind The Curtain, Features, Music of the Movies Every four weeks, ORWAV explores the movie month ahead through the medium of song! Upcoming releases, notable births and anniversaries and a general celebration of the films, directors, technicians and...
Top 10 Cold War Movies Calum Baker November 27, 2015 Analysis, Features, Top 10 The decades-long Cold War is, in many ways, one of the most literary of all international conflicts - which is why, perhaps, it hasn't found as perennial a home on screen as some of its louder cousins. That...
The ORWAV Playlist – November 2015 Calum Baker November 3, 2015 Behind The Curtain, Features, Music of the Movies Every four weeks, ORWAV explores the movie month ahead through the medium of song! Upcoming releases, notable births and anniversaries and a general celebration of the films, directors, technicians and...
Every Bond Theme, Ranked By Lyric Calum Baker October 28, 2015 Behind The Curtain, Features, Music of the Movies The Eon James Bond theme tunes may be some of the most famous and iconic music moments in cinema, but they're not without their absurdities - chief among these being some ridiculous and unforgivable lyrics....
