Where Are They Now?: Back to the Future Calum Baker July 7, 2015 Features, Nostalgia, Where Are They Now? Thirty years is a long time. As Back to the Future hits its Pearl Anniversary, its performers have finally caught up with the ages they played in the 2015-set sequel. Forget the fact that we still don't have...
Amy – Review Calum Baker July 4, 2015 Reviews Asif Kapadia is a master of his form, expertly turning this Behind the Music-waiting-to-happen into a poignant, studious evocation of his subject's headspace, yet simultaneously keeping her distant. It was,...
The ORWAV Playlist – July 2015 Calum Baker July 2, 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...
A Love Letter To… The Last Picture Show Calum Baker June 30, 2015 Features, Love Letter, Nostalgia Peter Bogdanovich's breakthrough third feature is still one of the greatest in American cinema, not least for how unexpected it was - and still is. The director came out of film criticism and venerated...
Top 10 Film Father Figures Calum Baker June 21, 2015 Analysis, Features, Top 10 In case you missed the calendar alert, the endless commercials, the supermarket displays and the Google Doodle: it's Fathers' Day! We're celebrating with a brief rundown of ten fantastic father figures from...
The ORWAV Playlist – June 2015 Calum Baker June 2, 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 Palme d’Or Winners Calum Baker May 22, 2015 Analysis, Features, Top 10 Some of the greatest films of all time have shown or been sold at the Cannes Film Festival, and a few of those have also won awards. From acknowledged classics such as Blowup and The Tin Drum, to...
A Beginner’s Guide to… The Cannes Film Festival Calum Baker May 13, 2015 A Beginner's Guide To..., Analysis, Features It seems somewhat condescending to you, the reader, to begin this article with something as basic as "What IS the Cannes Film Festival?" - yet this isn't an entirely stupid question. The Festival means...
The ORWAV Playlist – May 2015 Calum Baker May 5, 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...
The ORWAV Playlist – April 2015 Calum Baker April 2, 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...
Impossibly Early Oscar Predictions – 2015-16 Calum Baker March 3, 2015 Analysis, Features, One Off 2 Comments Okay ORWeenies, it's that time of year again. After we punted for Gone Girl, Interstellar, Inherent Vice, Into the Woods, Unbroken and Foxcatcher last time (as well as Theory of Everything, Imitation Game,...
ORWAV’s Official Playlist for Your Oscars Party Calum Baker February 22, 2015 Behind The Curtain, Features, Music of the Movies 1 Comment It's finally here: the biggest night of the year (narrowly beating Martin Luther King Day). If you're anything like us, you'll be having a stellar bash to celebrate the ultimate rewarding of your favourite...
Inherent Vice – Review Calum Baker February 5, 2015 Reviews 1 Comment The '60s are dead, to begin with. Yet through all the stoner fog of PI Doc Sportello's (Phoenix) meandering investigations, the elegiac beauty of Pynchon's source novel is only occasionally glimpsed. Three...
Are DreamWorks Secretly The New Kings Of Animation? Calum Baker May 27, 2014 Analysis, Features, Opinion 2 Comments Let's face it: DreamWorks Animation has never been a marquee-topper in the same vein as Walt Disney, Pixar, or even overseas houses Studio Ghibli and Aardman. They've never broken a billion. They rarely win...
Big Screen/Small Screen: Orphan Black, Dr Strangelove, and a lot of Buster Keatons Calum Baker May 19, 2014 Analysis, Close-Up, Features With the recent return of BBC America's brilliant cloning drama Orphan Black - and its award-winning star Tatiana Maslany - we explore the long tradition of screen actors playing several different characters...
