Author Tom Bond

You won’t see another film quite like Colossal this year. It’s best you know as little as possible going into this unique and wildly ambitious film, whose madness only just begins with the concept of...

Director Jim Sheridan attracts an enviable cast in this intense period drama, set in 1940s Ireland, and he doesn’t waste a drop of their talent. The marquee name is Dame Vanessa Redgrave, offering proof, if...

These are not tolerant times. It takes no stretch of the imagination to picture a minority man being swiftly sentenced to death because his peers were too lazy or short-sighted or racist to view his case as...

If to err is human, then Ridley Scott’s aliens are perfection. But as Covenant proves emphatically, perfection isn’t all it’s cracked up to be. What a machine might view as imperfect emotions, like fear...

10 years ago Hot Fuzz burst into our lives and instantly became one of the most entertaining, thrilling, and quotable comedies of the 21st century. Hot off his cult TV series Spaced and the success of Shaun of...

Everyone's got their favourite filmmakers: from Scorsese to Spielberg, Cuarón to the Coens and Wes Anderson to Paul Thomas Anderson - but which of these famous directors are you most like? Apropos of...

One quirk of every awards season are the filmmakers who enjoy a shining moment of glory, full of the promise of cinematic brilliance to come, only to fade away into obscurity. Out of sheer curiosity, we’ve...

This week sees the release of Elle, the latest film from acclaimed director Paul Verhoeven, so what better time to look back at his career and test your knowledge? You may love his films, but how well do you...

On an island, anything can happen. Isolated geographically, they form spaces separate from the rest of society where new rules apply and existing norms can be challenged and disrupted. It’s been this way...

Here at ORWAV we're nothing if not cynical trouble-makers, keen to upset some applecarts, rock some boats, and start a revolution. By which we mean that for the ORWAV Oscars 2017, votes have been counted by...

Mark Wahlberg loves Boston more than you love your own mother. So who better to play the lead in Patriots Day, this emotive dramatisation of the 2013 Boston Marathon bombing? Wahlberg and director Peter Berg...

Just like the real Oscars are more useful as a barometer of Hollywood’s taste than as a marker of quality, the ORWAV Oscars 2017 are a fascinating insight into what makes us tick. Most interestingly of...

Moonlight is a strange mixture of the old and the new, offering plenty that we’ve seen before while pushing boundaries that too often remain rigid in mainstream films. Director Barry Jenkins begins in the...

A great play has a certain kind of self-made intensity, as if its players are conjuring up a story from thin air and keeping that plate spinning around the single stage. It leaves you dizzy. Directing...

How many Batmans do we really need? If superhero fatigue is real then surely the Dark Knight is a prime candidate, with Christopher Nolan’s trilogy rapidly followed by the heavy metal angst of Zach...