Taken 3 – Interview with Olivier Megaton Cameron Ward January 6, 2015 Behind The Curtain, Features, Interview Take me once, shame on you. Take me twice, shame on me. What happens when it happens the third time? We sat down with Taken 3 director Olivier Megaton to talk about the process, the franchise, and what...
ORWAV’s Top 20 of 2014: 9. Her Cameron Ward December 21, 2014 Analysis, Features, Top 10 7 Comments “Dear Catherine, I've been sitting here thinking about all the things I wanted to apologise to you for." Theodore Twombly (Joaquin Phoenix)'s closing missive is a love letter to lives once lived, the final...
Short of the Week – Caldera Cameron Ward December 15, 2014 Features, Independent, Short of the Week https://vimeo.com/62596239 Evan Vierra’s ethereal 2012 piece, Caldera, expertly explores the seemingly unliveable space between fantasy and actuality. Having witnessed firsthand his father’s own...
Short of the Week – Between Bears Cameron Ward December 8, 2014 Features, Independent, Short of the Week http://vimeo.com/13776542 Eran Hilleli's graduation film from Bezalel Academy of Art and Design is said to be 'a debt to my childhood, and other lives I hoped I lived.' Hilleli's clean, simple, and...
Short of the Week – Abe Cameron Ward December 1, 2014 Features, Independent, Short of the Week http://vimeo.com/64114843 Rob McLellan’s 8 minute exploration of cold obsession under the chilling light of self-awareness finds new material for the affectionate sociopath, chillingly augmenting the...
White Bird in a Blizzard – LFF Review Cameron Ward October 25, 2014 Reviews Carried by both Woodley and Green’s arresting portrayal of familial detachment and sexual frustration within “perfected” 80’s suburbia, White Bird in a Blizzard takes on great pace, but little...
The Tribe – LFF Review Cameron Ward October 25, 2014 Reviews Miroslav Slaboshpitsky’s audacious feature debut masters visual storytelling without a single utterance. Told solely through sign language, and containing no spoken dialogue or subtitles, The Tribe breeds...
Electricity – LFF Review Cameron Ward October 24, 2014 Reviews Bryn Higgins’ aesthetically challenging representation of disability brings with it the constant physical and emotional toll of struggling to maintain a passable level of control through everyday...
The Drop – LFF Review Cameron Ward October 23, 2014 Reviews 1 Comment Michaël R. Roskam’s tense second feature offers subdued fatalism in and amongst the potential cruelty of things unseen. General life and character progression is seemingly set aside in The Drop’s...
The Falling – LFF Review Cameron Ward October 23, 2014 Reviews Writer-director Carol Morley’s psychosexual trance piece, The Falling, maintains high levels of interest throughout, yet ultimately fails to bring about its reasons why. Though narrative significance is...
Appropriate Behaviour – LFF Review Cameron Ward October 15, 2014 Reviews 1 Comment Desiree Akhavan’s near-autonomous feature debut brings honest edge to well-travelled ground. Though tonal comparisons to both Girls and Frances Ha are easily made throughout, Akhavan’s acute sense of...
X+Y – LFF Review Cameron Ward October 14, 2014 Reviews Morgan Matthews' X+Y employs refreshing subtlety in place of generically afforded melodrama. Despite playing host to numerous mental and physical disabilities, X+Y commendably eschews blatant and obvious...
Men, Women & Children – LFF Review Cameron Ward October 14, 2014 Reviews Jason Reitman's deceptively light exploration of the Digital Age couples both comedy and tragedy through near-accepted absurdity. Despite Men, Women & Children's initial, "sexually playful" approach, it...
The Maze Runner – Interview With Wes Ball Cameron Ward October 7, 2014 Behind The Curtain, Features, Interview Wes Ball recently joined us for a round table interview following the imminent release of his directorial debut, The Maze Runner, adapted from James Dashner's widely celebrated book series. How did...
The Maze Runner – Cast Interview Cameron Ward October 6, 2014 Behind The Curtain, Features, Interview Dylan O'Brien (Teen Wolf), Will Poulter (Son of Rambo), and Thomas Brodie-Sangster (Game of Thrones) recently joined us for a roundtable interview following the imminent release of James Dashner's adapted...