Author Tom Bond

This was originally reviewed on 22/05/17 as part of Cannes Film Festival.  If you ever get invited to a Cannes beach party, never play "Would You Rather… ?" with Yorgos Lanthimos. The Greek...

It’s not every day you get to see the moment a director goes from being great to becoming legendary. With Blade Runner 2049, Denis Villeneuve has proven – if the likes of Arrival and Sicario weren’t...

The Villainess begins with one of the most insane action sequences in recent memory. In a similar vein to the recent gimmicky Hardcore Henry, Sook-hee (Kim) slices through hordes of faceless goons in the first...

Taylor Sheridan has made his name as the writer of gritty, sincere action films like Sicario and Hell or High Water, and it’s fair to say he doesn’t change a winning formula with his directorial debut,...

One look and you can tell how well a society functions. It’s all about order. Are the streets clear of rubbish? Are the walls fresh with paint? People only tend to care how something looks once they’re...

The most-anticipated film of the year, Dunkirk, landed on our shores last week, and with it returned one of the best directors around, Christopher Nolan. His ambitious, cerebral filmmaking has wowed...

It's nearly time for the top ten! Our ranking of the best blockbusters of all time approaches its closing stages. 20. Spider-Man 2 (2004) Probably the best onscreen iteration of Marvel’s most...

Colin Farrell fucks his way to freedom in this intoxicating remake of Don Siegel and Clint Eastwood’s 1971 Southern Gothic. Sofia Coppola’s version is faithful to the original, but adopts a more restrained...

When you’re young it’s not cool to like blockbusters. It’s not really uncool either. They’re just a fact of life. Cinema and blockbusters are one and the same. Star Wars, Back to the Future, Indiana...

Forget Tobey Maguire. Forget Andrew Garfield. Tom Holland is Spider-Man. He blows away all past competition with a star-making performance full of endearingly hyperactive charisma and a formidable screen...

It’s the end of June, so that means it’s time for our favourite ORWAV tradition: the listing of our top 10 movie moments of the year so far, spoilers and all. You’ll get lists thrown at you ad...

“He punched a hole in the moon for me. That’s pretty crazy.” It’s also not the kind of line you’d expect to find within Edgar Wright’s Cornetto trilogy. Scott Pilgrim vs. the World, Wright's first...

What makes a great blockbuster? Action? Romance? Explosions? A huge budget? We’ve made it our mission to answer that question once and for all, ahead of our upcoming ORWAV blockbuster season. We’ll be...

Technically, we’re journalists. And until anyone proves otherwise, that means it’s our task, nay, our duty, to write interesting things about films. Now, watching the first four Transformers films in...

The Mummy returns. Again and again. It was first created in 1932 by screenwriter John L. Balderston with Boris Karloff as the bandaged baddie; then reanimated in 1999 in a more blockbuster version directed by...