Author Phil W. Bayles

Originally filmed from a script called The Cellar, 10 Cloverfield Lane's title actually does it a disservice. This ‘spiritual successor’ is a completely different beast to Matt Reeves' 2008 viral...

This weekend sees the release of 10 Cloverfield Lane, a movie that was announced with almost no fanfare just weeks ago. Producer J.J. Abrams is known for his love of the ‘mystery box’, but this still makes...

Here at ORWAV we're ridiculously excited about last week's release of the Coen Brothers’ new movie Hail, Caesar!  and most of that excitement is down to Channing Tatum doing a Gene Kelly-inspired musical...

There’s a moment about halfway through London Has Fallen when Gerard Butler’s gruff Secret Service bodyguard advises the bad guys to “go back to Fuckheadistan”. It’s hard to decide what’s more...

There’s nothing original under the sun, it is said, and King Jack will certainly feel familiar to many. Felix Thompson’s picaresque tale of two boys in smalltown America can trace its ancestry right back...

Winner of the Best Screenplay Award at last year’s Cannes Festival, Chronic makes Michael Haneke’s Amour feel like a Richard Curtis romcom. Michel Franco’s camera intrudes, cold and clinical, on...

Rooster Teeth, the production company behind cult web series Red vs. Blue, have finally made their first feature film after one of the most successful crowdfunding campaigns ever. Their fans will be happy...

There are a lot of interesting stories knocking about in Concussion. The compassionate Nigerian doctor Bennet Omalu is a fascinating example of the American Dream made flesh, and his unearthing of a massive...

The late Nora Ephron was the undisputed queen of the romantic comedy. Her screenplays for such classics as When Harry Met Sally and You’ve Got Mail were sharp and insightful, and perfectly encapsulated the...

Though she’s been acting for nearly a decade, and doing it very well, Chloë Grace Moretz has always felt like an actor dancing around the edges of stardom. She’s consistently proven herself to be a...

In Ariel Kleiman’s Partisan, Vincent Cassel reminds us why he’s one of France’s greatest actors. He’s gained a reputation for playing brash, violent psychopaths, but Gregori - the father figure of an...

“There are over 550 million firearms in worldwide circulation. That's one firearm for every twelve people on the planet. The only question is, how do we arm the other 11?” It’s been said so many times...

If Pixar films have taught us one thing, it's that everything we love will one day come to an end. We will forget our childhood toys. Our loved ones will die and leave us alone in the world. Eventually, we all...

Few actors working today are quite as paradoxical in their very existence as Johnny Depp. He is the man behind some of the most recognisable characters in modern popular culture, yet away from the cameras he...

It’s easy to see how Vin Diesel, a self-declared D&D fanatic, would be drawn into the world of The Last Witch Hunter. There are flashes here and there of a fantasy universe as richly drawn as John...