Author David Brake

Bone Tomahawk is a film that colours outside the lines. A Western in spirit, but cannibalistic at heart, beautiful landscapes and meandering conversations mix with grizzly ends and an extensive...

“The oldest and strongest emotion of mankind is fear, and the oldest and strongest kind of fear is fear of the unknown.” —H.P. Lovecraft H.P. Lovecraft was the father of cosmic horror. A man who...

The last time we saw Deadpool, he had his mouth sewn up and his head cut off in the much maligned X-Men Origins: Wolverine. Seven years later, Ryan Reynolds is the suited-up, gun-happy Merc with a Mouth once...

You know why Michael Bay’s 11 films have grossed over $5.5 billion? People keep watching them. Why? This exportable, 'fun', larger-than-life director is making the movies no one else will or can. He’s the...

Star Wars: The Force Awakens will likely become the highest-grossing film of all time come February. A wondrous return for the space opera: aliens, foreign lands, spacecrafts, lasers, and lots of bright...

January is clearly our competition month. Thanks to the tremendous folk at Matchbox and Rabbit Publicity, we've got THREE copies of My Skinny Sister to give away on DVD! You'll want to enter this one. Not...

Happy New Year you wonderful lot. Thanks to the tremendous folk at Arrow Films, we've got TWO copies of Shelter to give away! Aren't they lovely? Not heard of it? It's this wonderful Paul Bettany number....

Hello! One Room With A View is on the long list for the UK Blog Awards 2016 in the Arts & Culture category. Yay! This is our first time up for any sort of award, and we're pretty thrilled about...

How the hell is it 2016? Time sure flies when you've had a year of film that good. In 2015 we were graced with Carol, Ex Machina, Inside Out, Mad Max: Fury Road, The Martian and Mission: Impossible - Rogue...

It's here! The One Room With A View Top 20 films of 2015 has landed. It's been an extraordinary year of cinema, and this was one of the closest years we've seen in the vote. With positions constantly changing,...

https://vimeo.com/119240048 Graduation films pour out in their droves, varying from pure dreck to the astounding. Luckily our latest Short of the Week lands towards the positive end of this...

It's competition time at One Room With A View towers! Thanks to the tremendous folk at Emfoundation and StudioCanal, we've got THREE DVDs of Aferim! to give away! Not heard of it? Now's the time to educate...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qOSy3HLbFrU&app=desktop From a minuscule budget, this evocative and smartly done war short has been born. Powered by the energy coursing through the veins of its...

The story of Nick Yarris is an exasperating and extraordinary one. The unending mastication of this one bald and wiry man through the justice system's traps grips from the off. Free from pantomime extras,...

For nearly two decades, Don Bluth and Gary Goldman were the leading lights in the animated film world, creating countless classics. To name but a few, we're talking The Secret of NIMH, An American Tail, The...