Analysis

Ip Man (or Yip Man as he is sometimes known) has traditionally been an elusive figure for Western audiences far more familiar with his most famous student Bruce Lee. But the legendary Kung Fu Grandmaster has...

Though it’s been 14 years since About a Boy, for some of us Nicholas Hoult will forever be sweet and strange Marcus Brewer. Though not quite Hoult’s first film role (he was a supporting actor in 1996’s...

How much do we really know about Richard Madden? Sure, uttering his name strikes images of Red Weddings, Fairy Godmothers, and a seriously racy turn in 2015’s Lady Chatterley’s Lover. But could this be the...

There’s an odd phenomenon in Hollywood, which we're going to call the 'two-year bestseller delay'. Due to the trappings of production and the time it takes to actually produce a film, 2014 in novels is 2016...

Alla Nazimova, the famed Broadway star of the early 1900s, apparently once said that “sincerity and the correct use of the voice are the greatest things in the art of acting.” So without further ado...

This week Kristen Wiig stars in Nasty Baby, perhaps her most indie project yet – aesthetically at least. The trailer seems to promise an inky black sense of humour in the vein of Ben Wheatley’s...

Jeff Nichols is by no means the first American filmmaker to utilise the strange, otherworldly beauty of the American interior as the backdrop for his brief but already impressive oeuvre. As a point of...

Ask anyone to tell you about Dev Patel, and you’ll get a different answer: "That guy from Skins", "The boy from Slumdog Millionaire", "Oooh, that nice young man from those hotel films". Everyone will...

Frequently cited as his last great film, Akira Kurosawa's Ran shows the director at the height of his powers. The film, released in 1985, was a decade-long passion project for the septuagenarian director. Much...

Batman and Superman are currently clobbering each other through cinemas around the globe, but where did it all begin? One Room With A View casts the Bat Signal back through time, past the Nolan-noughties, past...

It’s no secret that sport is emotive. But what defines the sports genre? Is it a film where the plot centres around the buildup to a big sporting event? Or is it simply a film that contains a sport? The...

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 weekend sees the release of 10 Cloverfield Lane, a movie that was announced with almost no fanfare just weeks ago. Producer J.J. Abrams is known for his love of the ‘mystery box’, but this still makes...

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...

Here at ORWAV we're ridiculously excited about last week's release of the Coen Brothers’ new movie Hail, Caesar!  and most of that excitement is down to Channing Tatum doing a Gene Kelly-inspired musical...