Analysis

Unless you’re already heavily involved in queer studies you may well balk at the sound of ‘queer cinema’. For the majority of people who only know ‘queer’ as a slur, it might be a surprise to find...

Mad Max: Fury Road is undoubtedly one of the best action blockbusters of 2015. It’s also one of the most progressive, subversive and openly political films to reach such a mass audience in recent memory. It...

There has been an awakening. Have you felt it? April, 1997. Thurrock, South East England. The carpark outside a Vue cinema. A seven year-old boy and his father stumble out of the theatre's exit into the...

If Pixar films have taught us one thing, it's that everything we love will one day come to an end. We will forget our childhood toys. Our loved ones will die and leave us alone in the world. Eventually, we all...

Carol is a glimpse of a faded memory; a divine reverie conjured from the depths of your gut by a familiar smell, a lilting melody, or a pensive silence. What other films may struggle to say with extended...

"Wow. You know... What has to happen in a person's life to become a critic anyway? What are you writing? Another review? Is that any good? Is it? Did you even see it?" Michael Keaton is Riggan Thompson, a...

“What happens to me if I fail your test?” What indeed. The year’s most interesting film? You’d be hard pressed to find a rival with the same scientific clout as this, Alex Garland’s directorial...

If you aren’t a fan of having sex in public places then seeing The Martian was probably the most fun you could have had in a cinema in 2015. The Martian is the story of the eponymous Mark Watney (Matt...

"If I came to you like this during the military dictatorship - what would you have done to me?" "You can't imagine what would have happened." I'll start by pointing out something fortuitous: the focus of...

Back in the mid noughties, Amy Winehouse was more than just a name. Through a meteoric rise to fame, followed by a descent into drugs, she became the punchline to your jokes. A shorthand description of someone...

In hindsight the purchase of Star Wars makes perfect sense. The Disney canon resonates with audiences on a deeply personal level, while their commercial clout transmits that intimacy on a global scale. This...

It's here! The One Room With A View Top 20 films of 2015 has landed. It's been an extraordinary year of cinema, and this was one of the closest years we've seen in the vote. With positions constantly changing,...

A long time ago, in a galaxy far, far away… It is a period of gut-wrenching anticipation. ONE ROOM WITH A VIEW, writing from a hidden base, have decided to watch all six Star Wars films… In a row....

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...

Alfred Hitchock, regarded by many as the greatest director of all time, once said he thought “all actors should be treated like cattle”, which gives you a good idea as to why the auteur and the talent...