Analysis

Each person you speak to has had a day. Some of the days have been good, some bad, but they've all had one. Each person you speak to has had a childhood. Each has a body. Each body has aches. What is it to be...

Writer-director (and occasional actor) Taika Waititi has made himself a nice little niche in the last ten years, creating New Zealand-centric films with universal appeal. Usually honing in on characters...

The release of A Monster Calls marks another entry into the familiar trope of kids' films featuring alien or 'other' creatures as their heroes, forming a lovable double-act with the child protagonist. Few are...

Sometimes it's easy to forget that we spend most of our time stumbling around the dark. Suddenly, a light gets turned on and there's a fair share of blame to go around. I can't speak to what happened before I...

Traditionally, the relationship between films and videogames has been strained at the best of times. Game-based movies, from Super Mario Bros. to the Resident Evil series, are pretty much uniformly awful....

Not a day goes by that I don’t think about this film, but it isn’t a film I would like to watch again anytime soon. Room is the story of Jack, a five-year-old boy born and brought up in captivity; he is...

Shane Black has directed three films, and to some degree or another they’ve all poked fun at the clichés that hold the world together. His debut, Kiss Kiss Bang Bang, was a whip-smart deconstruction of the...

Men are weak-minded, egocentric and, for the most part, doomed to fail. For the past four decades of his career, Martin Scorsese has mined his way through the male psyche, warts and all. To some, he may be...

“Beauty isn’t everything. It's the only thing.” 2016 has been the year of the troll. Since ORWAV's last Top Ten, Britain has wrenched herself out of the European Union, Donald Trump has gone from...

Paterson lies in the valley under the Passaic Falls its spent waters forming the outline of his back. - William Carlos Williams, 'Paterson', 1926. In his first film, 1980's Permanent Vacation, Jim...

Despite all of the numerous terrible things that have happened, 2016 has at least given us some truly original films. We’ve seen such leftfield ideas as a punk rock siege led by neo-Nazi Captain Picard,...

Zootropolis, Zootopia... Despite the renaming malarkey for the European market – and the awkwardness that could have ensued – Zootropolis' release into the cinema wilderness this year was anything but...

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...

How did Chris Pratt transition so smoothly from the schlubby Andy Dwyer to the hunky Hollywood hero we know today? We have at least one theory: abs. First things first – a philosophical question to start...

It’s fair to say that 2016 has been a tough year. The stakes have been high on and off the screen and, suffice to say, we have been burdened with disappointing results in both arenas. After blockbusters...