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Creating horror remakes is often a thankless job. Taking familiar intellectual properties with built-in audience recognition and repackaging them with a little more sex or violence than the originals were...

Any conversation about the director Steve McQueen will involve his long shots. It’s impossible to think of Hunger without remembering Michael Fassbender and Liam Cunningham just chatting for 17 minutes, in...

Buffy: Everyone gets horribly killed except the blonde girl in the nightie, who finally kills the monster with a machete. But it's not really dead. Jennifer: Oh, my God, is that true? Buffy: Probably. What...

There is a long-running debate within film theory and criticism about the idea of authenticity. Art as a form of expression has social and political consequences, whether these are intentional or not;...

Before Kill Bill: Volume 1’s release, audiences were already acquainted with Quentin Tarantino’s interests in extreme violence and casual drug use. But once it hit cinemas, Kill Bill proved to be a...

When the 2018 Venice Film Festival slate was first announced, people were quick to proclaim it one of the greatest on-paper festival line-ups. We here at ORWAV can’t help but agree, and with our team off the...

There comes a time in every film fan’s life when they have to admit that they haven’t seen one of the universally acclaimed must-see movies, to confess and make amends for a sin of omission. While there...

Upon its release in 2008, it was immediately clear that The Dark Knight was an important film. Arriving in the dying days of the Bush Administration, months before the collapse of Lehman Brothers, it’s...

Prior to 2017, the inauguration of Donald Trump as the President of the United States seemed like an impossibility. Even after he was voted into power, there was confusion and calls for recount. Just like...

"Commencing at the siren, any and all crime, including murder, will be legal for 12 continuous hours. Police, fire, and emergency medical services will be unavailable until tomorrow morning...

Dust off the wedding bells, dig out the confetti, it’s time to celebrate: the romantic comedy is back! It’s been a long drought but thanks to Netflix, Trump, and possibly Harry and Meghan, the age of...

One of the most exciting parts about the build-up to Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom was the news that the legendary Jeff Goldblum would be reprising his role as chaotician/rock star/sex god Ian Malcolm. Our...

Everyone has been in the situation: movie night in with your friends, eating popcorn, laughing and joking. The opening titles start and the protagonists appear. Halfway through, you find yourself elbowing the...

Deadpool 2, the latest in Fox’s recent attempt to inject the superhero format with a little more blood and badmouthing, opened last week to a generally positive critical reception and the beginnings of what...

Whether you're a Francophile or not, we’ve all seen and experienced at least one version of the streets of Paris. In 1951’s An American in Paris, Vincente Minnelli turned the Parisian streets into an...