Stories From The Set: The Tree of Life
If there’s one label that would never fit Terrence Malick as a director, it’s ‘conventional’. From a 20-year wait for a new film between 1978’s Days of Heaven and 1998’s The Thin Red Line, to not...
Best Films Never Made #33: Michael Winner’s Captain America
Captain America technically shouldn't work on screen. The fundamental top-line interpretation is that he's a chest-beating, red-white-'n'-blue überpatriot who could appear obnoxious, removed and...
Prince: In Memoriam – Why Purple Rain Is The Greatest Soundtrack Of All Time
Every so often a celebrity death comes so unexpectedly that it unites the world. We saw this phenomenon occur in January with the sudden and devastating death of David Bowie; now, we witness it once again with...
Best Films Never Made #32: Chris Columbus’ Indiana Jones and the Monkey King
In 2019, Harrison Ford will once again don cinema’s most famous fedora for the fifth time. Yet if our latest Best Film Never Made had seen the light of day, it’s unlikely we would have seen another Indiana...
The Club – An Interview With Chilean Maestro Pablo Larraín
"God said, 'Let there be light,' and there was light. God saw that the light was good, and he separated the light from the darkness." So begins Chilean auteur Pablo Larraín's latest opus El Club, which...
Best Films Never Made #31: John Hughes’ Oil and Vinegar
John Hughes made plenty of perfect films in his time. There was the irrepressible charm of Ferris Bueller’s Day Off, led by Matthew Broderick, and the soulful rebellion of The Breakfast Club, Pretty in Pink...
The ORWAV Playlist – Oscars 2016
For the second year in a row, we've created a big bumper-size playlist for you to whack on in advance of tonight's Academy Awards! What more can we say, other than "enjoy, hope you have fun, hope you're not...
The 2016 Stunt Oscars
The stunt industry, specifically stunt professionals, are criminally overlooked by the Oscars. In an effort to draw much-needed attention to this underrepresented yet essential arm of filmmaking, ORWAV is...
Best Films Never Made #30: Guillermo Del Toro’s At The Mountains Of Madness
“The oldest and strongest emotion of mankind is fear, and the oldest and strongest kind of fear is fear of the unknown.” - H.P. Lovecraft H.P. Lovecraft was the father of cosmic horror. A man who...
Ryan Reynolds Q & A – Deadpool Interview
The last time we saw Deadpool, he had his mouth sewn up and his head cut off in the much maligned X-Men Origins: Wolverine. Seven years later, Ryan Reynolds is the suited-up, gun-happy Merc with a Mouth once...
The ORWAV Playlist – February 2016
Every four weeks, ORWAV explores the movie month ahead through the medium of song! Upcoming releases, notable births and anniversaries and a general celebration of the films, directors, technicians and...
Sherpa – An Interview With Director Jennifer Peedom
A fight on Everest? It seemed incredible. But in 2013 news channels around the world reported an ugly brawl at 21 000ft as European climbers fled a mob of angry Sherpa mountain guides. What had happened to the...
Casting Call: Young Han Solo
This week Variety reported that Disney have spent several parsecs (yes, I know, distance) auditioning thousands for the role of at least two lifetimes: Young Han Solo. With Rogue One thought to be positioned,...
The ORWAV Playlist – January 2016
Every four weeks, ORWAV explores the movie month ahead through the medium of song! Upcoming releases, notable births and anniversaries and a general celebration of the films, directors, technicians and...
Best Films Never Made #29: David Lynch/David Cronenberg’s Return of the Jedi
When George Lucas was on the hunt for someone to bring the much anticipated Return of the Jedi to life in the early 1980s, he thought of two young directors that were laying the foundations of their...