ORWAV’s Scariest Movie Moments Phil W. Bayles September 6, 2017 Analysis, Features, One Off Though audiences are most familiar with Pennywise the Dancing Clown, the eponymous monster in Stephen King's It actually takes on many forms, changing its shape to reflect the deepest fears of its victims....
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...
Short of the Week – The Last Time Calum Baker September 4, 2017 Features, Independent, Short of the Week We’ve all been there: standing around, minding your own business, something completely innocuous happens nearby and you’re thrown down the mental rabbit-hole. In Christine Hooper’s colourful...
Analysing IMDb: Are Films Getting Worse? Marcus Beard August 30, 2017 Analysis, Features, Stat Attack Do you miss the good old days? Back when this country was great, I could pass flatus in public and no one would bat an eye. In fact, I even used to soil myself and it would be cleaned up for me. What’s...
Hot Stuff – The Full Monty 20 Years On Stephanie Watts August 29, 2017 Analysis, Features We’ve all been there – joking that if we don’t get that job, or pass that exam, we’ll have to become strippers to make ends meet. In The Full Monty, for six men of Sheffield out of a job after the...
Short of the Week – Compatibility Phil W. Bayles August 28, 2017 Features, Independent, Short of the Week https://vimeo.com/231105192 Brooker’s Law states that any time an artist makes a statement about technology’s impact on our lives, someone will inevitably make a comparison to Black Mirror. It’s a...
Scene Stealers: Adam Driver in Inside Llewyn Davis Carmen Paddock August 23, 2017 Features, Scene Stealers At first glance, the Coen brothers’ Inside Llewyn Davis is not explicitly a feel-good film. The titular antihero – a down-on-his-luck folk musician in 1960s New York – is bitter about his circumstances...
Soderbergh’s Solaris: A Superior Hollywood Remake Patrick Nabarro August 22, 2017 Analysis, Features, Opinion Steven Soderbergh has always been a filmmaker who belies easy stereotyping. His prolificness and his chameleon-like ability to switch between genres, between the arthouse and the mainstream, have always made...
Short of the Week – MANOMAN Sinead McCausland August 21, 2017 Features, Independent, Short of the Week https://vimeo.com/173524321 MANOMAN is a short film that viewers should watch more than once in order to grasp its smart, cinematic spectacle. Due to the film's surrealist humour, the viewer can easily...
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...
Short of the Week – Hard Coffee Louise Burrell August 14, 2017 Features, Independent, Short of the Week https://vimeo.com/227495263 Shot on one cartridge of 8mm film, with only in-camera edits allowed and no post-production, Hard Coffee is three and a half minutes of highly-caffeinated energy. Filmed as part...
The Science of Ghosts: Cinematic Tales of Grief Patrick Nabarro August 10, 2017 Analysis, Close-Up, Features Cinema plus Psychoanalysis equals the Science of Ghosts – Jacques Derrida Cinema has always seemed the ideal bedfellow for explorations of grief and loss. It’s ingrained in the very origins of the...
Scene Stealers: Robert De Niro in Stardust Phil W. Bayles August 9, 2017 Analysis, Features, Scene Stealers At some point in the early 2000s, Robert De Niro’s career started to take a downhill turn. Sure, there’s been the odd high point here and there – he’s generally considered to be one of the best parts...
The Citizen Kane of Awful: Godzilla (1998) Joni Blyth August 8, 2017 Features, Nostalgia, The Citizen Kane of Awful Cast: Matthew Broderick, Jean Reno, Maria Pitillo, Hank Azaria, Kevin Dunn Director: Roland Emmerich Writers: Dean Devlin, Roland Emmerich Estimated Budget: $130 million US Gross: $136...
Short of the Week – In A Heartbeat James Andrews August 7, 2017 Features, Independent, Short of the Week https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2REkk9SCRn0 Among the three-hour, exposition-heavy blockbusters it can be easy to forget how much can be done with just a few minutes and no dialogue at all. In a...
