Short of the Week – Three Red Sweaters Louise Burrell April 30, 2018 Features, Independent, Short of the Week https://vimeo.com/257555221 Martha Gregory’s short documentary Three Red Sweaters came to fruition when she asked herself the question: how are our memories changing now that we have the ability to...
Infinity War Spoiler Reaction: What Next for the MCU? Phil W. Bayles April 26, 2018 Analysis, Features, One Off After 18 films of build up over a decade, and years of anticipation, Avengers: Infinity War has finally arrived - you can read our Bertie's excellent review right here. Thanos still demands our silence, but...
For Better or Worse: How Has Marvel Changed Cinema? James Andrews April 26, 2018 Analysis, Features, Opinion 10 years and 18 movies in, the Marvel Cinematic Universe (MCU) has taken a superhuman grip of both the box office and modern popular culture – and, for now at least, it shows no signs of letting go. But...
Who Will Die in Infinity War? Jack Blackwell April 25, 2018 Analysis, Features, One Off As the official Most Hyped Film Of All Time, Avengers: Infinity War is a source of non-stop speculation about its story. As the culmination of 10 years of the Marvel Cinematic Universe, it should be an...
Debate 2.0: What is the Best Marvel Movie? Kambole Campbell April 24, 2018 Analysis, Debate, Features It’s the eve of the release of Avengers: Infinity War, Marvel’s last-ever instalment of their 10-year-old Cinematic Universe (just kidding, these films will exist long after you and I are dust). It’s the...
Short of the Week – Writer’s Workshop Phil W. Bayles April 23, 2018 Features, Independent, Short of the Week Ryan Francis Johnson's short film Writer's Workshop takes an ingenious comedic premise and cranks it up to the point of absurdity. Aspiring writer Jeremy (Grayson Low) tentatively shares a piece in a...
The Human Cost of War in Grave of the Fireflies Kambole Campbell April 19, 2018 Analysis, Features, Spotlight Isao Takahata’s most lauded and well-recognised work that brought Studio Ghibli acclaim on an international level, Grave of the Fireflies, turned 30 years old this Monday in the wake of the Studio Ghibli...
Annihilation and the Terror of the Uncanny Tom Bond April 18, 2018 Analysis, Close-Up, Features Even if you saw Annihilation when it first hit Netflix a month ago, you probably haven’t been able to forget its most powerful scenes. Ostensibly a sci-fi mystery about a meteorite and the strange shimmering...
The Brilliance of Juliette Binoche Patrick Nabarro April 17, 2018 Analysis, Features, Spotlight Juliette Binoche. The name alone brings connotations of a very particular brand of imperious arthouse cinema. Seeing it in the opening credits is a near guarantor of a cerebral viewing experience; a patent by...
Short Of The Week- Blooming Night Cathy Brennan April 16, 2018 Features, Independent, Short of the Week https://vimeo.com/258932602 So much of mainstream cinema is framed around men looking at women. Think of Jimmy Stewart stalking Kim Novak in Vertigo in an extended sequence with nearly no dialogue...
A Millennial’s Guide to Movies Patrick Taylor April 12, 2018 Analysis, Features, Top 10 Millennials don't have it easy. From finding the ideal life partner, carving out the perfect career, buying a property and just generally, y'know, figuring out what it all means, there's a lot to consider....
A Love Letter To… Hairspray Sian Brett April 11, 2018 Features, Love Letter, Nostalgia A cast that boasts the likes of John Travolta, Michelle Pfiefer, Christopher Walken and Queen Latifah is what movie dreams are made of – and John Water’s 2007 reboot of Hairspray doesn’t disappoint. A...
Stories From The Set: A Fistful Of Dollars Rory Steabler April 10, 2018 Behind The Curtain, Features, Stories from the Set Being long-time fans of Sergio Leone's work, and with a new remaster hitting cinemas, we at ORWAV thought it would be timely to look at how the director made A Fistful of Dollars. His first Western is widely...
Short of the Week – The Hungry Corpse David Brake April 9, 2018 Features, Independent, Short of the Week https://vimeo.com/258683540 In the world of short films, animation is a popular genre. Populated by promising and flawed student films, it’s easy to miss the polished diamonds in among the rough...
Why Heathers Is A Cynical Masterpiece Cathy Brennan April 5, 2018 Features, Love Letter, Nostalgia Let’s get something out of the way: high school is hell, and if you enjoyed it then you probably made it miserable for those who didn’t. Adult appreciation of the high school film is more complex than mere...
