Author Carmen Paddock

Back on screens this week with the release of The House with a Clock in Its Walls, iconic Australian actress Cate Blanchett is adding a children’s fantasy film to her impressive list of achievements. She is...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pD3-XG2Z4Pg Talented siblings Jeff Nichols (director of Mud, Midnight Special, and Loving) and Ben Nichols (lead guitarist for the ‘country-punk rock’ band Lucero)...

The legendary American composer, conductor, and music educator Leonard Bernstein would have been 100 on 25th August 2018. His career was marked by its mercurial beginning – at the age of 25, he took on a...

Over the course of a deliberately convoluted timeframe, shady characters cross paths and double-cross one another in a neo-noir cityscape (think Baz Luhrmann’s Romeo + Juliet meets a dystopian Alice in...

Apologies to all whose have continued singing “I’ll Make A Man Out of You” in their heads – or out loud – upon reading the title. The 2010s have been a relatively strong decade for Disney...

https://vimeo.com/channels/staffpicks/270244268 New York is one of the planet’s most recognisable places – largely thanks to the infinite films, television shows, and plays set across its five...

Patton Oswalt once made a joke about the creators of some of his favourite films: I love movies.  And any movie that you love, chances are it was directed by a man, edited by a woman, which means a woman...

In his feature film debut, Michael Pearce crosses a romance with a whodunit to create a haunting thriller. Beast seems at first to refer to a mysterious murderer troubling an isolated community in Jersey, but...

https://vimeo.com/255517926 This weekend saw the March for Our Lives take over social media and cities around the world.  While Guns Found Here does not have the visceral punch of the one ORWAV spotlighted...

This week sees the release of Bombshell: The Hedy Lamarr Story – a documentary about the Hollywood icon whose contributions to communication technology have been largely overlooked. Louis B. Mayer may have...

The news comes far, far too late, but it is welcome regardless: after eight years of dithering, Kevin Feige has finally announced that a script for a Black Widow film is in the works, with Scarlett Johansson...

In Europe, everybody would say, "Well, they (in Hollywood) just want to squeeze you like a lemon." Well, yeah! But, you know, if I have the juice, why shouldn't they? Of all actors to grace the awards-season...

Yesterday was the day many film fans have been waiting for: the 2018 Oscars nominations have been revealed! To celebrate and debate the (delightful and outrageous) results of this announcement are Copy Editor...

Christopher Plummer is doing very well this year, mainly in the sense that he is a well-regarded man in Hollywood who is not in the midst of a sexual harassment or assault scandal. Furthermore, his turn as J....

Guard 1: Should we investigate... ? Guard 2: Should you shut the f*** up before you get us both killed? *Spoilers ahead* Armando Iannucci’s return to the big screen was widely lauded (including...