A Beginner’s Guide to… Alfred Hitchcock Cathy Brennan March 4, 2016 A Beginner's Guide To..., Analysis, Features It's easy to get into the films of Alfred Hitchcock. His mastery of film narrative, coupled with his thematic obsessions, make his films both accessible and sophisticated. His career is also one of 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...
Scene Stealers: Carey Mulligan in Inside Llewyn Davis Nick Evan-Cook March 2, 2016 Analysis, Features, Scene Stealers Jesus Quintana. Anton Chigurh. Osbourne Cox. Most characters played by John Goodman. The entire supporting cast of The Big Lebowski. From sex pests and kidnappers to psychotic murderers and plain...
ORWAV Oscars 2016 – The Results Tom Bond February 29, 2016 Analysis, Features, One Off It's the moment every film fan has been waiting for...the results of the ORWAV Oscars! Will our shock front-runner Ex Machina sweep the board? Will Leo pick up his first ORWAV Oscar to sit on his mantelpiece...
The Oscars 2016 | 88th Academy Awards | Live Blog David Brake February 28, 2016 Analysis, Features, One Off Welcome to One Room With A View’s (soon-to-be) LIVE coverage of the 88th Academy Awards! Tonight’s ceremony in Los Angeles will be hosted by Chris Rock, whereas our ceremony will be hosted by yours...
Scene Stealers: Brie Larson in Scott Pilgrim vs The World Tom Bond February 24, 2016 Analysis, Features, Scene Stealers This weekend, Brie Larson is going to win her first Best Actress Oscar for Room. Trust me. It will be a well-deserved honour after her complex, emotional performance in the film, and a long-overdue reward for...
ORWAV Oscars 2016 – The Nominations Tom Bond February 23, 2016 Analysis, Features, One Off As the 2016 awards season rumbles to a close, here at ORWAV we felt it was about time someone crashed the party. With the #OscarsSoWhite once more, and some big names like Todd Haynes and Quentin...
What Is Shia LaBeouf’s #Elevate And Why Might It Be His Best Art Yet? Tom Bond February 19, 2016 Analysis, Features, One Off Shia LaBeouf has done something weird again. This time, the erstwhile film star has continued his fondness for performance art with #ELEVATE, a YouTube stream documenting his conversations inside the lift...
What Makes A Great Stage to Screen Adaptation? Sian Brett February 16, 2016 Analysis, Features, Opinion Before it was possible to potter off to the cinema for some entertainment, stories were told on the stage. And with so many classic pieces of drama continuing to be reproduced over hundreds of years, when...
Top 10 Breakup Movies Nick Evan-Cook February 14, 2016 Analysis, Features, Top 10 You can keep your roses and chocolates. For the truly miserable, there's only one thing for it on Valentine's day - sit down (alone) in the dark and watch a classic breakup movie to remind yourself of all the...
Scene Stealers: Sir Anthony Hopkins in The Silence of the Lambs Daniel Orton February 13, 2016 Analysis, Features, Scene Stealers Dr Hannibal Lecter is without doubt the most terrifying villain ever to grace the big screen. FACT. The AFI has voted him the Number One villain of the last 100 years, out-villaining even the murderous loner...
Scene Stealers: Will Ferrell in Zoolander Tom Bond February 11, 2016 Analysis, Features, Scene Stealers You know, there's more to life than being really, really ridiculously good-looking. Sometimes you need a great fashion sense as well. Ben Stiller may dominate Zoolander as writer, director and idiotic lead,...
The Story of Dalton Trumbo Tori Brazier February 6, 2016 Analysis, Close-Up, Features Dalton Trumbo, novelist and prolific screenwriter for nearly forty years from the 1930s, is to return to the public consciousness as a biopic of his life hits UK screens. Despite being an Oscar winner and the...
How Tom Hiddleston Charmed Hollywood Tori Brazier February 3, 2016 Analysis, Features, Spotlight Hollywood has always enjoyed the suave English gentleman actor, ever since the days of Cary Grant and David Niven, and award-winning films and blockbuster movies alike continue to be staffed by the likes of...
Spotlight: Tom McCarthy Calum Baker February 2, 2016 Analysis, Features, Spotlight Tom McCarthy is known for many things: he’s a critically well-liked writer-director whose most recent film, Spotlight, is garnering accolades around the world. He’s a very recognisable “That guy!”...
