Godzilla – Review Calum Baker May 12, 2014 Reviews 4 Comments Look, all the world wanted was a good kaiju epic. What they got was a smorgasbord of exposition (thanks Ken Watanabe!) masquerading as slow-burn buildup, culminating in five screen minutes of lame and generic...
Big Screen/Small Screen: Mad Men and the Movies Calum Baker April 12, 2014 Analysis, Close-Up, Features 2 Comments From The Apartment to Planet of the Apes, by way of Lane Pryce’s beloved The Bridge on the River Kwai: In advance of the Mad Men Season 7 premiere this Sunday, ORWAV takes a look at all things cinematic in...
Twenty Feet from Stardom – Review Calum Baker March 29, 2014 Reviews Though its accessibility has drawn scorn from fans of "serious" documentary-making, this VH1-vibed account of sadly-overlooked backing singers should win anyone over. It's the magnetic personalities as much...
52 More Slices of Movie Trivia Calum Baker March 28, 2014 Features, Nostalgia, Ten Degrees of Trivia This is it, folks. We've had fifty... we've had fifty-one... now we go one better, with fifty-two slices of movie trivia each more mildly-interesting than the last. 1. Christopher Walken's real name is...
Impossibly Early Predictions: The 87th Academy Awards Calum Baker March 10, 2014 Analysis, Features, One Off 1 Comment We've had a week to come down. A week to talk about how great Cate Blanchett and Lupita Nyong'o were, how, er, unique Kim Novak's presentational style was, and how incredibly predictable the Academy Awards...
Weirdly Specific Trivia About This Year’s Oscars Calum Baker March 2, 2014 Features, Nostalgia, Ten Degrees of Trivia The ORWAV writers are, naturally, great fans of movies – but there are two things this weekend that just can’t be ignored, that arguably take precedence over everything else: the 86th Academy Awards...
