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Pawel Pawlikowski, winner of the Best Director award at this year’s Cannes Film Festival for Cold War, has become one of the world’s top contemporary auteurs almost by stealth. He’s not a filmmaker who...

For a generation of millennials to this day still finding unaccounted for scars in every nook and cranny of their body, the mere mention of Jackass brings back memories of teenage summers where a hedge was...

When the 2018 Venice Film Festival slate was first announced, people were quick to proclaim it one of the greatest on-paper festival line-ups. We here at ORWAV can’t help but agree, and with our team off the...

For many a comedy fan, The Muppets was the start of a lifelong love of entertainment. Playing the music, lighting the lights, celebrity guest stars aplenty, and a gang of Muppets to offer guaranteed laughs...

The legendary American composer, conductor, and music educator Leonard Bernstein would have been 100 on 25th August 2018. His career was marked by its mercurial beginning – at the age of 25, he took on a...

With The Happytime Murders out this week and Melissa McCarthy’s previous release, Life of the Party, still managing to draw in crowds ready for a guaranteed laugh with the girls, it looks like her magical...

Love, Actually is one of those movies that, come December, you either embrace wholeheartedly, or avoid like the Bubonic plague. Aside from Andrew Lincoln's wooing of Keira Knightley via Bob-Dylan style cue...

Ewan McGregor is back in cinemas once again as Christopher Robin – now a family man living in London – who receives a surprise visit from his old childhood pal, Winnie-the-Pooh. With a career of 25 years...

Ask any Britcom star and they'll tell you just how hard it is to make the transition from domestic TV to the silver screen. At its simplest level there's just something about the structure of a great sitcom...

Why do we never talk about how great the villains in Pixar movies are? From Sid in Toy Story to Randall in Monsters, Inc., the cold and analytical autopilot in WALL-E to Antoine Ego in Ratatouille, Pixar's...

There comes a time in every film fan’s life when they have to admit that they haven’t seen one of the universally acclaimed must-see movies, to confess and make amends for a sin of omission. While there...

The plot of 2016 movie The Shallows is pretty easy and quick to sum up: it's Blake Lively versus a shark. This excellent, taut thriller sees her surfer, Nancy, get attacked and injured by a great white - then...

Samuel L. Jackson? A scene stealer in Deep Blue Sea? But wasn't he the star of that movie? Well, yes and no. Just go with this. 1999's cult favourite, about a group of genetically engineered sharks going on...

Though the majority of our Scene Stealers inductees are made up of scenery-chewing tour-de-forces and unexpectedly bizarre cameos, our latest entry stands as perhaps one of the series' most understated...

The Marvel Cinematic Universe, of which Ant-Man and The Wasp is the latest edition, is a multifaceted one. All of the characters and worlds, ranging from the psychedelic multiple realities of Doctor Strange...