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With Spider Man: Into the Spider-Verse out tomorrow, audiences will be treated to a new version of a beloved, oft-portrayed superhero. Or more accurately, new versions – Miles Morales might be at the heart...

It’s the eve of the release of Avengers: Infinity War, Marvel’s last-ever instalment of their 10-year-old Cinematic Universe (just kidding, these films will exist long after you and I are dust). It’s the...

Yesterday was the day many film fans have been waiting for: the 2018 Oscars nominations have been revealed! To celebrate and debate the (delightful and outrageous) results of this announcement are Copy Editor...

With Pixar’s latest film Coco out this Friday, we thought it was the perfect opportunity to do what we love the most: argue about film. Our writers Rhys Handley and Jack Blackwell, and Features Editor...

Marvel Studios' cinematic universe has all but taken over the the global box office, much like the crypto-fascist team the "Avengers" at its centre (just kidding). The decade-spanning, 18-film franchise owes...

With the recent release of Okja on Netflix's world famous and immensely popular streaming service alongside a quite limited cinematic release, we decided to get together and have a chat about Netflix's methods...

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...

The second release this month that has received a savage backlash from social media based on its casting of a white protagonist, the casting of Scarlett Johansson in Rupert Sanders' adaptation of Ghost in...

Here at ORWAV, we just can't stop talking about La La Land. And with good reason - Damien Chazelle's modern take on old-school Hollywood has been nominated for an impressive 14 Academy Awards, and enchanted...

After two disappointing years of #OscarsSoWhite the Academy have gone some way to improving the diversity of their nominations, with nods for the likes of Denzel Washington, Bradford Young and Barry...

You’ve probably seen Rogue One by now, and if you haven’t - go buy a ticket! Once you’ve seen it you’ll undoubtedly have thoughts about the appearances of Peter Cushing and Carrie Fisher as Grand Moff...

With the impending X-Men: Apocalypse just around the corner it seems like the perfect time to look back at what the world’s finest mutant franchise has offered us over the years. Today we have Sophie Wing,...

This week sees the release of Captain America: Civil War, the other big superhero punch-up of 2016. But as Steve Rogers and Tony Stark come to blows over the ethics of being a costumed hero, we at ORWAV are...

Ladies and gentleman, please take your seats for the warm-up fight, Batman v Batman v Batman (the fact we couldn’t find enough writers for a Superman debate probably tells you who would win the main contest...

This week sees the Young Adult sub-genre stumble onwards into yet another dystopian future with the release of The Divergent Series: Allegiant. The sub-genre has thrived since the early noughties when the...