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Have you ever wondered why the crime rate in Sandford is so low, yet the accident rate is so high? Ah, the plight of the middle child; stuck between the precocious first-born and the youngster who’s allowed...

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...

Fans often underestimate the staying power of Shaun of the Dead, the first of Edgar Wright's "Three Flavours Cornetto" trilogy. When held up against Wright's more recent films like Hot Fuzz, The World's End,...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MCq6tbwHN0U Never will you have watched a short film before that says so much without saying anything at all. Following the adventures of a lonely bookmark, who is...

There is a great tradition in cinema of the normally "comic" actor going "serious"; even more of a risk, however, is when a full-time standup makes the transition to acting in the first place. It can be...

Nick Broomfield’s documentary Whitney: Can I Be Me – an examination of one of the 20th century’s greatest singers – hits UK cinemas this week. Considering Houston’s astounding career across various...

If Slack Bay (due for UK release this weekend) is to be your first sample of the cinema of French auteur Bruno Dumont, then it should come with a large caveat. Like his previous film/TV series P'tit Quinquin...

https://vimeo.com/219933301 Based on writer, director and producer Thyrone Tommy's own experiences, Mariner tells the mesmerising tale of Nate, a young navigation cadet taking his final college exams. A...

“She did get so irritated with people calling it a romantic novel. Because she always said it was a study in jealousy.” Upon Rebecca’s publication in 1938, Royal Society wünderkind and critic V.S....

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...

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...

https://vimeo.com/121667533 Cinema's main purpose is not just to tell a story, but the story of a person. When these stories and people are shrouded in mystery, they become more fascinating to...

Although Japanese filmmaker Hirokazu Koreeda has been working for decades, and although his films have been celebrated across the festival circuit, he is not yet a household name. That kind of international...

It’s fair to say that Superman’s outings on the big screen over the years have been to varying degrees of success. Superman (1978) and Superman II (1980) were both, generally speaking, excellent works –...