Author Eddie Falvey

Jeff Nichols is a great filmmaker. That Midnight Special comes close to greatness is undeniable - its first hour is a deliriously inventive, utterly arresting cosmic thriller that keeps its cards very close to...

The Weekly Report All news contained herein corresponds to the world of film. The Weekly Report will seek to cover general film news that has emerged over the last seven days. The End of...

Welcome to what will be a new staple weekly feature for One Room With A View. That's it, ORWAV is doing the news - film news, that is, none of this real life crap. You lucky buggers, you. Here's the...

The final track on the first side of David Bowie's 1973 album Aladdin Sane (A Lad Insane, get it?) is a lesser known rocker called 'Cracked Actor'; among hits such as 'Drive-In Saturday' and 'The Jean...

How does one begin to talk about Nicolas Cage? Well, let’s first start by considering the polar positions that so often clouds discussions regarding him. Such conversation tends to proceed as follows:...

We'll Find Something (2015) from casey gooden on Vimeo. Casey Gooden's We'll Find Something tells the story of a young, outwardly hip couple on a search for food in New York City. The couple...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eFVw6Bw0HFY While Eddie Redmayne stole The Theory of Everything's limelight for his exquisite performance as Stephen Hawking, it is well worth remembering that Felicity...

Ever since Jaws exploded into the popular consciousness in the summer of 1975 the world has been at the mercy of blockbuster film franchises. Usually (but not always) building upon highly successful source...

It is fair to say that Robert De Niro is an acting institution; so great is he in some of his performances that one would not hesitate to place him among the best actors of his generation, and even of all...

For the most part, the reception to the incoming (in the UK, at least) N.W.A biopic Straight Outta Compton has been surprisingly positive. Despite boasting a running time that rivals Gladiator - the film...

This feature contains mild spoilers for The Diary of a Teenage Girl. The primary topic of discussion surrounding the release of Marielle Heller's Sundance hit The Diary of a Teenage Girl has been its...

"I'm an apex predator." This is the chilling reality rarely explored in the superhero genre: if you have superpowers, you're top of the food chain. Even Batman's more sombre, existential antics are...

Pixar’s return with this summer’s critical darling Inside Out marks the end of a hiatus of sorts for the studio. It has been two years since Pixar released Monsters University, the moderately well-received...

Following 2010’s mystical Oscar nominee The Secret of Kells, budding animation master Tomm Moore returns to tackle Celtic folklore in Song of the Sea. In this he produces a wonderful film, haunted by...

The Western genre is sumptuously classical, historically entwined with cinema since its birth - and yet it is also helplessly turbulent, subject to postcolonial criticism for the histories it depicts in its...