Author Stephen O'Nion

In Secret feels like a film that has sat in stasis, waiting - to get made, for its cast to stabilise, for its leads to maybe even make it big. In a claustrophobic, stagey Paris primarily existing within a...

With The Canyons, it was always going to be near-impossible to separate picture from production: born of publicity and crowd-funding, scandal and scrutiny. Saddled with a "story" boiled down to glassy-eyed...

It might be a brave new world but we’ve definitely been here before. The humdrum minimalism of Sunshine and Alien crossed with the runny-screamy parts of Alien and Sunshine mean little is unexpected, even...

The Legend of Hercules is incredibullshit. Women pout, men flex, random specks float about to say “3D!” and our beefy protagonist squares off against a sniveling Reece Shearsmith-alike for his true...

Though expecting to hate the tale of beauty and the button-down, it turns out writer-director Jill Soloway has actually created a frequently amusing slice of mumblecore realism. Finally Kathryn Hahn has...

Hey! Listen! Here’s an uncontroversial opinion: films based on video games are bad. A less uncontroversial opinion - but still a surprisingly rare one - this will change. soon. Roughly each year for the...

He may look gruff and wave a gun around but fear not - this is still Ice Cube at his Are We There Yet-iest. That is largely down to Ride Along being the Chris Tucker Kevin Hart show through and through. The...

It may span the most significant decades of last century, but The Book Thief pretty much boils down to girl-lives-with-family, girl-learns-to-read - for two hours. Over John William’s all-pervading score,...

Lone Survivor's dialogue speaks for itself: "If I die, I want you to make sure that Cindy knows how much I love her, and that I died with my brothers." Incidentally, this is no spoiler when three of our lead...

Being a fan of boxing and craptastic puns, a film with the tagline “Grudgement Day” doesn’t have to do much to win me over. And Grudge Match doesn’t do much either; De Niro and Stallone fight a bit...

With Paul Walker’s untimely death, a number of projects have had to be put on hold. Fast and Furious 7 has decided to quietly retire Walker’s character with already-shot footage but what of the productions...

As 2013 draws to a close, it’s time to reel off One Room With A View’s Top Ten Films of 2013. Each writer will list their top ten and we’ll reach an ultimate list at the end. To achieve this, we’ll be...

Anchorman 2 is definitely a sequel. It's not just the “2” in the title that'll tip you off but the stakes, the glut of cameos, and the sheer number of nods to Burgundy et al.'s first outing. This is...

It’s nearly Christmas! To celebrate, the writers of One Room With A View are going to present their arguments as to why their choice is the Ultimate Christmas Movie. We hope you enjoy the features and please...

How does the removal of hereditary peerages relate to Nicky Butt being responsible for burning Peter Schmeichel’s penis? The Class of ‘92 is at its worst when trying to provide an answer. It’s at its...