What’s The Best Marvel Film? Phil W. Bayles April 27, 2016 Analysis, Debate, Features 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...
What’s the Best Batman Film? Tom Bond March 23, 2016 Analysis, Debate, Features 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...
What’s The Best YA Film? Tom Bond March 10, 2016 Analysis, Debate, Features 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...
What Is The Best Coen Brothers Film? Patrick Taylor March 3, 2016 Analysis, Debate, Features This week's release of Hail, Caesar! marks the directorial return of Ethan & Joel Coen. Arguably two of the greatest filmmakers of their generation, the Coens have sprinkled the past three...
Retro Oscar Debate – No Country For Old Men vs There Will Be Blood Tom Bond January 22, 2016 Analysis, Debate, Features In the run-up to this year’s Oscars we’ll be running some debates on classic Oscar categories, beginning with 2008’s Best Picture nominees: Atonement, Juno, Michael Clayton, There Will Be Blood and No...
2016 Oscar Nominations: Did They Get It Right? Patrick Taylor January 14, 2016 Analysis, Debate, Features So, the Academy Awards are upon us once more and this year's band of intrepid nominees have been released into the wild to vie for golden-statue-glory on 22nd February. We've assembled a crack team of our own...
What’s Quentin Tarantino’s Best Film? Patrick Taylor January 8, 2016 Analysis, Debate, Features That most unique and curious of phenomena is upon us once more: a new Quentin Tarantino film. As The Hateful Eight hits cinemas nationwide, it seems like as a good a time as any to cast our eyes back over the...
Should Eddie Redmayne Be Playing A Trans Woman In The Danish Girl? Tom Bond December 31, 2015 Analysis, Debate, Features This week sees the release of The Danish Girl, Tom Hooper's long-awaited film about Lili Elbe (born Einar Wegener), the first person to ever undergo gender reassignment surgery. The lead role is played by the...
What’s the Best Star Wars Film? Tom Bond December 15, 2015 Analysis, Debate, Features Throughout the ages mankind has searched for the answers to the mysteries of the universe. Who are we? Why are we here? What’s the meaning of life? Now, ORWAV are facing the most important question of them...