Fire Walk With Me: A Lynchian Masterpiece Conor Morgan May 22, 2017 Features, Nostalgia, Second Chance Needless to say, this article contains spoilers for the Twin Peaks TV series as well as the film. When Twin Peaks ended in 1991, it went out on 50 of the strangest, most wonderfully obtuse minutes of...
Zodiac At 10: Fincher’s Forgotten Masterpiece Conor Morgan March 2, 2017 Analysis, Features, Opinion We hate to break it to all the 14-year-old boys and alt-right shitheads out there, but Fight Club is not the best film ever made. Nor is it David Fincher’s best film. The same is true of Se7en, The Social...
Top 20 Films of 2016: 8. Anomalisa Conor Morgan December 23, 2016 Analysis, Features, Top 10 Despite all of the numerous terrible things that have happened, 2016 has at least given us some truly original films. We’ve seen such leftfield ideas as a punk rock siege led by neo-Nazi Captain Picard,...
Punch-Drunk Love: Adam Sandler’s Redemption Conor Morgan November 23, 2016 Analysis, Close-Up, Features To say that Adam Sandler has been poorly received by critics over the years would be something of an understatement. Jack and Jill currently holds the record for the most Razzie awards won in a single night,...
Barton Fink and the Coen Brothers’ Early Genius Conor Morgan August 20, 2016 Analysis, Close-Up, Features The first three films made by the Coen Brothers are all great. Excellent, in fact. But Barton Fink is the first that really showed their genius; that they are two of the preeminent filmmakers of our time....
Richard Linklater’s Fascination With Time Conor Morgan May 13, 2016 Analysis, Close-Up, Features Richard Linklater has been on a hell of a hot streak this past decade. A Best Picture nomination for Boyhood; a third flying visit to Jesse and Céline in Before Midnight; the criminally underappreciated...
Eddie the Eagle – Review Conor Morgan March 30, 2016 Reviews Whilst Eddie the Eagle may use every cliche in the book, and takes some major poetic licence for narrative's sake (the requirement of a qualifying distance, Hugh Jackman’s entire character... ), Taron...
CEL Mates: Anomalisa Conor Morgan March 22, 2016 CEL Mates, Features, Independent Anomalisa is one of the the scariest films you'll ever see. It is also one of the most human films you’ll ever see. It is 100% concentrated existential dread with a layer of unsettling psychological disorder...
Top 20 Films of 2015: 1. Whiplash Conor Morgan December 31, 2015 Analysis, Features, Top 10 Whiplash is One Room With A View’s best film of 2015, beating all other competition since its UK release date of January 16th. That’s all the more impressive when you think how tough the competition has...
Best Films Never Made #29: David Lynch/David Cronenberg’s Return of the Jedi Conor Morgan December 18, 2015 Behind The Curtain, Best Films Never Made, Features When George Lucas was on the hunt for someone to bring the much anticipated Return of the Jedi to life in the early 1980s, he thought of two young directors that were laying the foundations of their...
M. Night Shyamalan: We’re Not Angry, We’re Just Disappointed Conor Morgan November 19, 2015 Analysis, Features, Opinion To celebrate the 15th anniversary of the fantastic and under appreciated Unbreakable on November 22nd, One Room With A View looks back at the director M. Night Shyamalan, his early promise, and where it all...
Scene Stealers: Bruce Campbell in the Spider-Man Trilogy Conor Morgan October 30, 2015 Analysis, Features, Scene Stealers Bruce Campbell, the mighty chin, has a long association with his friend, director Sam Raimi. Campbell is almost as regular a feature in Raimi's films as his beloved Oldsmobile Delta 88, 'The Classic'. This car...
Why Timothy Dalton Is The Best Bond Conor Morgan October 21, 2015 Analysis, Features, Opinion 7 Comments Timothy Dalton got a bit of a raw deal when he finally relented to take on the mantle of Bond, James Bond in 1987. He was first asked 20 years before in 1967, but felt he was far too young at only 21 years...
A Love Letter to… Man on Wire Conor Morgan October 14, 2015 Features, Love Letter, Nostalgia Man on Wire is a 2008 documentary feature film that tells the incredible story of Philippe Petit, a French wire walker who, in August 1974, walked 1350 feet in the air between the newly constructed Twin Towers...
CEL Mates: South Park: Bigger, Longer & Uncut Conor Morgan August 26, 2015 CEL Mates, Features, Independent “Oh, yes, I think South Park: Bigger, Longer & Uncut is just terrific, and the numbers in it are wonderful” - Stephen Sondheim South Park is often written off by people who have almost certainly...