Short of the Week – Balloonfest Louise Burrell July 17, 2017 Features, Independent, Short of the Week https://vimeo.com/223715406 In a documentary that could just as easily be a Christopher Guest film, director Nathan Truesdell pulls together archive footage of a frankly bizarre event that occurred in...
What Are the Best Blockbusters of All Time? 30 – 21 Kambole Campbell July 14, 2017 Analysis, Features, Top 10 Our list of the 50 greatest blockbusters ever made, as voted for by the ORWAV writers and editors, approaches the halfway mark... 30. The Incredibles (2004) A superhero film without the limits of...
Picking Apart Privilege in Sofia Coppola Films Cathy Brennan July 13, 2017 Analysis, Close-Up, Features All too often, critics of Sofia Coppola label her films as rich white girl problems. The "white" part is fair enough – it's not like she can't be criticised for how she handles (or rather avoids handling)...
What Are the Best Blockbusters of All Time? 40-31 Phil W. Bayles July 12, 2017 Analysis, Features, Top 10 On Monday we started to list the 50 greatest blockbusters ever made, as voted for by the ORWAV writers and editors. Today, the quest continues... 40. The Mummy (1999) Some blockbusters are...
How I Learned To Stop Worrying And Love Blockbusters Tom Bond July 11, 2017 Analysis, Features, Opinion When you’re young it’s not cool to like blockbusters. It’s not really uncool either. They’re just a fact of life. Cinema and blockbusters are one and the same. Star Wars, Back to the Future, Indiana...
What Are the Best Blockbusters of All Time? 50-41 Eddie Falvey July 10, 2017 Analysis, Features, Top 10 If you thought that the release of Spider-Man: Homecoming or War for the Planet of the Apes was the most important blockbuster event of the summer then you were wrong. We've been debating and voting on our...
Short of the Week – War & Cheese David Brake July 10, 2017 Features, Independent, Short of the Week https://vimeo.com/170083208 On August 7 2014, Oleg Sirota heard how his beloved Russia was banning the import of all Western cheeses; a retaliation to the sanctions forced upon them for their invasion...
Tom Holland: Entry Level Hollywood Carmen Paddock July 5, 2017 Analysis, Features, Spotlight Spider-Man’s third film series in 15 years kicks off on July 7 with Spider-Man: Homecoming. Unlike its predecessors, however, this will not be an origin story and fits into a much larger universe, with...
Sam Raimi’s Spider-Man: An ORWAV Marathon Kambole Campbell July 4, 2017 Analysis, Features, One Off Sam Raimi's Spider-Man trilogy. One good movie, one great movie, and one movie we don't talk about. Or is there more to it than that? In anticipation of the release of Spider-Man: Homecoming, Kambole and...
Short of the Week: It’s All Right, It’s OK Louise Burrell July 3, 2017 Features, Independent, Short of the Week https://vimeo.com/231158508 Winner of Sundance 2016’s Special Jury Award, director Jim Cummings is back with a trio of short films created for First Look Media. Each of the shorts are shot in just one...
MiB at 20: What Made it So Good? James Andrews July 2, 2017 Features, Love Letter, Nostalgia Have a quick think about your memories of the first Men in Black film. What immediately comes to mind is likely to include sharp suits, sunglasses, big-ass silver guns (and a certain tiny one), odd-couple...
Is Netflix a Good Place for New Films? Kambole Campbell July 1, 2017 Analysis, Debate, Features With the recent release of Okja on Netflix's world famous and immensely popular streaming service alongside a quite limited cinematic release, we decided to get together and have a chat about Netflix's methods...
Top 10 Movie Moments of 2017… So Far Tom Bond June 28, 2017 Analysis, Features, Top 10 It’s the end of June, so that means it’s time for our favourite ORWAV tradition: the listing of our top 10 movie moments of the year so far, spoilers and all. You’ll get lists thrown at you ad...
Hercules: The Original Disney Superhero Phil W. Bayles June 27, 2017 Features, Love Letter, Nostalgia It’s no exaggeration to say that the superhero movie is one of the most popular (and profitable) forms of entertainment today. Leading the charge – both in quantity and quality – is Marvel Studios....
Why The World’s End is Edgar Wright’s Best Film Phil W. Bayles June 26, 2017 Analysis, Features, Opinion "To err is human! So... err... " Hype can be a cruel mistress. After the first two instalments of Edgar Wright’s Cornetto Trilogy were respectively one of the best British horror movies of the century so...