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The conclusion to a second X-Men franchise is upon us. 2011’s X-Men: First Class sent us back to the swinging sixties with Charles Xavier and his groovy mutations and now it comes to a head in X-Men:...

https://vimeo.com/user21763231/thegoblinbaby From Ellen Ripley protecting Newt in Aliens to the relationship between an exasperated mother and her tearaway son in The Babadook, the maternal bond is...

Richard Linklater has been on a hell of a hot streak this past decade. A Best Picture nomination for Boyhood; a third flying visit to Jesse and Céline in Before Midnight; the criminally underappreciated...

It’s been over six months since the Hunger Games series ended and the world is crying out for another decent YA adaptation. Divergent did not prove to be diverting, The Maze Runner left us totally lost and...

Since its release in 2004 Mean Girls has quickly cemented itself as a classic teen comedy. In the years since, the popularity of the genre has petered out into minor successes like Easy A and embarrassing...

Regular ORWAV readers will know how much we love the Cannes Film Festival. We're even returning this year, to cover even more exciting ground than 2015 - and 2015 was pretty exciting. Dheepan won the Palme...

Famous directors - auteurs, if you want to get fancy - can often have their filmographies summed up in a few phrases. With Richard Linklater, those phrases are usually 'laid back', 'preoccupied with time'...

https://vimeo.com/channels/staffpicks/164839532 Karis Oh’s The Moment is a simple anecdote told in an enthralling monologue which ties the short together and engages from the first pitch-black frame....

It isn’t a secret that Spy isn’t exactly Oscar-worthy – nor was it even the biggest hit of 2015. But it’s a hell of a lot of fun. And this is in the most part due to Rose Byrne and her undoubtedly...

May 6 may not immediately mean a great deal to a lot of film fans, but for certain cinephiles it’s the day for making a pilgrimage to the nearest cinema screen to pay homage to a certain Terrence Malick and...

Normally when we talk about a certain actor stealing a scene, it’s an instance when they’ve completely owned a particular portion of screentime and left the audience wishing they’d return. In the case of...

If there’s one label that would never fit Terrence Malick as a director, it’s ‘conventional’. From a 20-year wait for a new film between 1978’s Days of Heaven and 1998’s The Thin Red Line, to not...

Seth Rogen may be the most consistent comedy actor in Hollywood. Whether or not you're a fan of his style of humour, it's clear he's established a distinctive comedic character – a lovable, foul-mouthed,...

https://vimeo.com/139853607 This twisted comedy short uses a sci-fi premise to build a strange and hilarious tale of infidelity. An innocent encounter between two strangers – writer Michael Spicer and...

Captain America technically shouldn't work on screen. The fundamental top-line interpretation is that he's a chest-beating, red-white-'n'-blue überpatriot who could appear obnoxious, removed and...