Short of the Week: Martin Carmen Paddock June 26, 2017 Features, Independent, Short of the Week https://vimeo.com/channels/shortoftheweek/220985345 Norfolk seems the last place on earth where the apocalypse could start. In Sholto Crow’s comedy-drama Martin, however, a man’s quiet treasure-hunting...
Why Scott Pilgrim vs The World is Edgar Wright’s Best Film Tom Bond June 25, 2017 Analysis, Features, Opinion “He punched a hole in the moon for me. That’s pretty crazy.” It’s also not the kind of line you’d expect to find within Edgar Wright’s Cornetto trilogy. Scott Pilgrim vs. the World, Wright's first...
Why Hot Fuzz is Edgar Wright’s Best Film David Brake June 22, 2017 Analysis, Features, Opinion Have you ever wondered why the crime rate in Sandford is so low, yet the accident rate is so high? Ah, the plight of the middle child; stuck between the precocious first-born and the youngster who’s allowed...
Debate: What Makes A Great Blockbuster? Tom Bond June 22, 2017 Analysis, Debate, Features What makes a great blockbuster? Action? Romance? Explosions? A huge budget? We’ve made it our mission to answer that question once and for all, ahead of our upcoming ORWAV blockbuster season. We’ll be...
The ORWAV Transformers Marathon Tom Bond June 21, 2017 Analysis, Features, One Off Technically, we’re journalists. And until anyone proves otherwise, that means it’s our task, nay, our duty, to write interesting things about films. Now, watching the first four Transformers films in...
Why Shaun of the Dead is Edgar Wright’s Best Film Sinead McCausland June 20, 2017 Analysis, Features, Opinion Fans often underestimate the staying power of Shaun of the Dead, the first of Edgar Wright's "Three Flavours Cornetto" trilogy. When held up against Wright's more recent films like Hot Fuzz, The World's End,...
Short of the Week – Much Better Now Naomi Soanes June 19, 2017 Features, Independent, Short of the Week https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MCq6tbwHN0U Never will you have watched a short film before that says so much without saying anything at all. Following the adventures of a lonely bookmark, who is...
Top 10 Films Starring Standup Comedians Calum Baker June 16, 2017 Analysis, Features, Top 10 There is a great tradition in cinema of the normally "comic" actor going "serious"; even more of a risk, however, is when a full-time standup makes the transition to acting in the first place. It can be...
Top 10 Crossover Artists Carmen Paddock June 14, 2017 Analysis, Features, Top 10 Nick Broomfield’s documentary Whitney: Can I Be Me – an examination of one of the 20th century’s greatest singers – hits UK cinemas this week. Considering Houston’s astounding career across various...
The Divine And The Comedy Of Bruno Dumont Patrick Nabarro June 13, 2017 Analysis, Features, Spotlight If Slack Bay (due for UK release this weekend) is to be your first sample of the cinema of French auteur Bruno Dumont, then it should come with a large caveat. Like his previous film/TV series P'tit Quinquin...
Short of the Week – Mariner Louise Burrell June 12, 2017 Features, Independent, Short of the Week https://vimeo.com/219933301 Based on writer, director and producer Thyrone Tommy's own experiences, Mariner tells the mesmerising tale of Nate, a young navigation cadet taking his final college exams. A...
When Alfred Met Daphne: Hitchcock, Hollywood, and Du Maurier David Brake June 8, 2017 Analysis, Close-Up, Features “She did get so irritated with people calling it a romantic novel. Because she always said it was a study in jealousy.” Upon Rebecca’s publication in 1938, Royal Society wünderkind and critic V.S....
Where Are They Now?: The Mummy (1999) Phil W. Bayles June 7, 2017 Features, Nostalgia, Where Are They Now? These days there is seemingly no movie that can't be shoehorned into a cinematic universe. Following the mammoth success of Marvel Studios, Universal has decided to reboot their old monster movie classics into...
Best Films Never Made #40: George A. Romero’s The Mummy Tom Bond June 6, 2017 Behind The Curtain, Best Films Never Made, Features The Mummy returns. Again and again. It was first created in 1932 by screenwriter John L. Balderston with Boris Karloff as the bandaged baddie; then reanimated in 1999 in a more blockbuster version directed by...
Short of the Week – Over Sinead McCausland June 5, 2017 Independent, Short of the Week https://vimeo.com/121667533 Cinema's main purpose is not just to tell a story, but the story of a person. When these stories and people are shrouded in mystery, they become more fascinating to...