Best Films Never Made #42: George A. Romero’s The Girl Who Loved Tom Gordon Naomi Soanes September 5, 2017 Behind The Curtain, Best Films Never Made, Features 2017’s been a good year for Stephen King fans. Not only have we seen the recent release of a film adaptation of The Dark Tower, widely considered King's masterpiece, but shortly we’ll be experiencing what...
Best Films Never Made #41: J. J. Abrams and Ron Howard’s The Dark Tower Sinead McCausland August 16, 2017 Behind The Curtain, Best Films Never Made, Features After nearly 10 years of development, The Dark Tower is finally coming to the big screen. Under the direction of Nikolaj Arcel (A Royal Affair), the movie hopes to launch an expansive film and television...
Music of the Movies: Christopher Nolan and Hans Zimmer Bertie Archer July 20, 2017 Behind The Curtain, Features, Music of the Movies July 21 heralds the return of Christopher Nolan. Although the eye-popping spectacle of Interstellar may still be seared onto your retinas, that film, his space-opera, came out in November 2014. Since then,...
Casting Call: Who Should Direct Bond 25? Hugh Blackstaffe July 18, 2017 Behind The Curtain, Casting Call, Features With Daniel Craig looking more likely than ever to return in the next Bond film, he needs a new director to join him. Rumours have been swirling that Christopher Nolan is in the frame, so we thought it would...
Best Films Never Made #40: George A. Romero’s The Mummy Tom Bond June 6, 2017 Behind The Curtain, Best Films Never Made, Features The Mummy returns. Again and again. It was first created in 1932 by screenwriter John L. Balderston with Boris Karloff as the bandaged baddie; then reanimated in 1999 in a more blockbuster version directed by...
Best Films Never Made #39: Joss Whedon’s Wonder Woman Carmen Paddock May 30, 2017 Behind The Curtain, Best Films Never Made, Features The DC Extended Universe is rapidly expanding this year; while one film shy of Marvel’s 2017 output, hopes are high for Wonder Woman and Justice League to redeem the lacklustre receptions given to last...
Best Films Never Made #38: Ridley Scott’s Nottingham David Brake May 10, 2017 Behind The Curtain, Best Films Never Made, Features "His job was to catch outlaws, and to collect taxes. And that's a pretty shitty gig, you know? In our version, the Sheriff was basically a decent guy, a civil servant and a war hero." In January 2007, Ethan...
Best Films Never Made #37: Neill Blomkamp’s Alien 5 David Brake May 4, 2017 Behind The Curtain, Best Films Never Made, Features 1 Comment "Was working on this. Don't think I am anymore. Love it though." One pithy line on an Instagram post seemed to mark the death of Alien 5 on New Year’s Day 2015. A death knell marked by a collection of...
Music of the Movies – Guardians of the Galaxy vs Suicide Squad Jack Blackwell April 25, 2017 Behind The Curtain, Features, Music of the Movies In 2016, DC had its true launch of its MCU-rivaling cinematic universe and, in doing so, made two films with obvious Marvel counterparts. They actually managed to beat the Feige machine to the Hero-vs-Hero...
The 2017 Stunt Oscars Hugh Blackstaffe February 27, 2017 12 Rounds, Behind The Curtain, Features For the second year, ORWAV is proud to reveal the winners of our own 2017 Stunt Oscars, where we highlight some of the best and most spectacular stunts and stunt performers from the last 12 months. As the...
The Cinematic Mixtapes of Xavier Dolan L D February 22, 2017 Analysis, Features, Music of the Movies Discursive, digressive, inconsistent, incoherent. Just a few words that come to mind when listening to the soundtracks from Xavier Dolan’s first five features. Track by track, he jumps from French-Italian...
Casting Call – Who Should Direct The Batman? Christopher Preston February 2, 2017 Behind The Curtain, Casting Call, Features At this point, one can only imagine the DC Extended Universe is built upon an ancient Indian burial ground. This riposte to the Marvel Cinematic Universe has tripped over three critical paving stones since...
Best Films Never Made #36: Forrest Gump 2 Joni Blyth January 31, 2017 Behind The Curtain, Best Films Never Made, Features When you really think about it, Forrest Gump is a weird movie. Pitch it in the abstract - "let’s send this random hayseed careening through recent history like a southern Doctor Who" - and it sounds...
Best Films Never Made #35: Oliver Stone’s Return of the Apes David Brake November 29, 2016 Behind The Curtain, Best Films Never Made, Features With Snowden thudding resoundingly at the US box office - Oliver Stone’s lowest opening in 20 years - let’s distract ourselves, ahead of its UK release, with an outstandingly mad concept. What if...
Music of the Movies: Leonard Cohen Rachel Brook November 15, 2016 Behind The Curtain, Features, Music of the Movies Spoiler warning: This article features spoilers to the 2011 film Take This Waltz and 2016’s Hunt for the Wilderpeople. Following Friday morning’s sad news of the death of genius singer-songwriter, poet...