Yesterday and Cinema’s Best Jukebox Musicals Carmen Paddock June 26, 2019 Analysis, Features, Top 10 Yesterday, which opens in the UK this week, imagines a world where Sergeant Pepper, Eleanor Rigby, and a yellow submarine live only in the mind of Jack Malik – a street musician whose life changes when he is...
X Rated: Every X-Men Film Ranked James Andrews June 4, 2019 Analysis, Features, Top 10 As the "will they, won't they?" saga of the X-Men's migration into the Marvel Cinematic Universe continues following Disney's takeover of Fox, the mutant franchise returns for what could be the final go-around...
From Short to Feature: Six Notable Expansions Carmen Paddock May 30, 2019 Analysis, Features, Top 10 After beginning life as a 13-minute short film, Thunder Road arrives in UK cinemas this week. The original depiction of a police officer awkwardly yet poignantly mourning his recently deceased mother through...
10 Moments That Defined Marvel’s Avengers Tom Bond April 23, 2019 Analysis, Features, Top 10 It's been a long old road to reach the Endgame. 21 films, a crowd of super-powered, wise-cracking heroes, and the biggest box office phenomenon of the 21st century all come to a (sort of) end when Endgame hits...
Top 10 Stephen King Adaptations Alice Rooney April 3, 2019 Analysis, Features, Top 10 Given Stephen King’s relentless success as an author, it seems only natural that gripping adaptations of his work should match this success on screen. Over 50 of King’s novels and short stories have been...
The Most Dangerous Games: Cinema’s Best Puzzles Sophie Maxwell January 29, 2019 Analysis, Features, Top 10 For some, the thought of being trapped in a small room with a limited time to solve puzzles and escape is sheer nightmare fuel. Maybe your boss thinks such activities are the perfect team-building exercises....
Seriously Funny: 10 Times Comedians Played it Straight Thom Denson January 10, 2019 Analysis, Features, Top 10 With the upcoming releases of both Stan & Ollie and Beautiful Boy, starring funnymen Steves Coogan and Carell respectively, it felt as good a time as any to shine the light on a selection of other...
ORWAV’s Top 20 Films of 2018: #1 – Phantom Thread J B Queree December 31, 2018 Analysis, Features, Top 10 Phantom Thread eludes being pinned down, with beguiling mastery. From the word go, you are never quite sure where it is heading, or exactly what sort of film you are watching, but – much like leading lady...
ORWAV’S Top 20 Films of 2018: #2 – The Shape of Water Josefine Algieri December 30, 2018 Analysis, Features, Top 10 Even nearly 12 months after its initial UK release, Guillermo del Toro’s The Shape of Water has lost none of its magic. The film not only captured the hearts of critics, but also of cinemagoers worldwide,...
ORWAV’s Top 20 Films of 2018: #3 – You Were Never Really Here Jack Blackwell December 29, 2018 Analysis, Features, Top 10 What really separated You Were Never Really Here from other thrillers in 2018 – more so, even, than its impressionistic style and sparse dialogue – was its complete lack of hero. Lynne Ramsay’s fourth...
ORWAV’s Top 20 Films of 2018: #4 – Lady Bird Tom Bond December 28, 2018 Analysis, Features, Top 10 There’s a line in a song I think about a lot. I think it might be true. You can change your clothes/ Change your hairstyle, your friends, cities, continents/ But sooner or later your own self will always...
ORWAV’s Top 20 Films of 2018: #5 – Annihilation Thom Denson December 27, 2018 Analysis, Features, Top 10 After a somewhat turbulent development period, culminating in Paramount Pictures deeming it too much of a box-office risk for real cinemas outside of North America, the dizzingly cerebral Annihilation finally...
ORWAV’s Top 20 Films of 2018: #6 – Roma Eddie Falvey December 27, 2018 Analysis, Features, Top 10 CUT TO: Int. a nondescript seminar room in a middling-to-good university. The class: Screenwriting 101. The lesson: Show, don’t tell. It’s the simple but powerful lesson that all new writers are...
ORWAV’s Top 20 Films of 2018: #7 – Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri Tori Brazier December 27, 2018 Analysis, Features, Top 10 A lot has happened since Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri streaked onto cinema screens in early January. A bachelor brought his girlfriend home to meet a bunch of crazy rich Asians in Singapore...
ORWAV’s Top 20 Films of 2018: #8 – Mission: Impossible – Fallout Joni Blyth December 24, 2018 Analysis, Features, Top 10 Without further ado, for the festive season – the IMDb Trivia Chorus: On the first day of Christmas, Mission Impossible: Fallout gave to me… three thousand set-ups, thirteen helicopters, six...