Author Phil W. Bayles

On Monday we started to list the 50 greatest blockbusters ever made, as voted for by the ORWAV writers and editors. Today, the quest continues... 40. The Mummy (1999) Some blockbusters are...

It’s no exaggeration to say that the superhero movie is one of the most popular (and profitable) forms of entertainment today. Leading the charge – both in quantity and quality – is Marvel Studios....

"To err is human! So... err... " Hype can be a cruel mistress. After the first two instalments of Edgar Wright’s Cornetto Trilogy were respectively one of the best British horror movies of the century so...

Gregg Hurwitz's screenplay for The Book of Henry has been searching for a director since the late 1990s. Watching the film, it’s not difficult to see why. Tonally, it’s all over the place. It starts as...

Here’s a drinking game for you: take a shot every time Optimus Prime feels the need to remind us of his name over the course of Transformers: The Last Knight. You’d think that, after five of these movies,...

These days there is seemingly no movie that can't be shoehorned into a cinematic universe. Following the mammoth success of Marvel Studios, Universal has decided to reboot their old monster movie classics into...

https://vimeo.com/216918144 The world is a bloody scary place sometimes, and even our beloved Short of the Week section can’t escape that fact. Too often recently, our shorts have dealt with heavy...

A Dog’s Purpose tells the story of Toby, a dog with the voice of the snowman from Frozen, who dies and is reincarnated four times in an attempt to reunite with his master. That’s pretty impressive loyalty,...

When Neill Blomkamp burst onto the scene in 2009 with his blisteringly brilliant debut film District 9, he brought someone else with him: actor Sharlto Copley, whose entirely improvised performance as nebbish...

https://vimeo.com/202796971 Social media and cinema have never been the cosiest of bedfellows. Most films that have directly tackled the ubiquity of things like Facebook and Twitter tend to go down the...

In 2017, it’s increasingly difficult to remember a time when superhero movies weren’t one of the biggest pop-culture phenomena in history. Way back at the beginning of the millennium, however, the genre...

https://vimeo.com/111952478 From the biting political satire of Borat to the biting comedy horror of What We Do in the Shadows, the mockumentary format has endured over the years because of its...

Here at ORWAV, we just can't stop talking about La La Land. And with good reason - Damien Chazelle's modern take on old-school Hollywood has been nominated for an impressive 14 Academy Awards, and enchanted...

It’s often said that the act of observing something affects the behaviour of the thing that’s being observed, but it’s equally true that it changes the person doing the observing. In Cameraperson,...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pQZe6y8eaDA Superheroes, like the gods and myths of old that predate them, are steeped in formula and archetypes. Dom Fera understands this, because Adam, the protagonist...