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In the upcoming Nine Lives (out on 17 August), Kevin Spacey plays a man turned into a cat. It's an odd career choice given the huge star-power injection Spacey has recently received thanks to Netflix’s House...

While the real world seems to have enough villains to keep us more than occupied, it's time to celebrate the bad men and women of cinema. We imagine a lot of people will get very angry in the comments...

If you have a gammy fin or a congenital neurological disorder, chances are you don't often see yourself onscreen. Unless of course you're a fish and you're watching Finding Dory, released in the UK late...

After three years, Nicolas Winding Refn is back this week with the latest in his brand of visually striking and unsettling cinema. To mark his return, we've been reflecting on Drive, the film that brought...

The directorial debut is an interesting phenomenon: for every illustrious filmmaker who nailed their craft at the first time of asking, other estimable auteurs needed a number of cracks to hit their...

Bowie. Rickman. Prince. Zsigmond. Vigoda. Hamilton. Yelchin. Not to mention those outside the film world like Ali, Corbett and Wood. So far, 2016 is being remembered for all the wrong reasons. Here at...

For many, Matteo Garrone’s 2008 Neapolitan crime epic Gommorah ranks alongside Fernando Meirelles’ City of God and Jacques Audiard’s A Prophet as a great modern example of the gangster genre. The gritty...

Regular ORWAV readers will know how much we love the Cannes Film Festival. We're even returning this year, to cover even more exciting ground than 2015 - and 2015 was pretty exciting. Dheepan won the Palme...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

Ensembles are no longer that rare a beast; since the near out-and-out collapse of the star system and the slow ascension of sheer product to the upper echelons of movie marketability, mid-budget films have...