Short of the Week – Symphony No. 42 David Brake February 22, 2016 Features, Independent, Short of the Week https://vimeo.com/153887315 A grated brain, elephants painting rescue signs and opera-singing penguins are just a few of the vignettes of gold within Symphony No. 42. Flowing through dreams, and...
What Is Shia LaBeouf’s #Elevate And Why Might It Be His Best Art Yet? Tom Bond February 19, 2016 Analysis, Features, One Off Shia LaBeouf has done something weird again. This time, the erstwhile film star has continued his fondness for performance art with #ELEVATE, a YouTube stream documenting his conversations inside the lift...
Best Films Never Made #30: Guillermo Del Toro’s At the Mountains of Madness David Brake February 18, 2016 Behind The Curtain, Best Films Never Made, Features 1 Comment “The oldest and strongest emotion of mankind is fear, and the oldest and strongest kind of fear is fear of the unknown.” —H.P. Lovecraft H.P. Lovecraft was the father of cosmic horror. A man who...
What Makes A Great Stage to Screen Adaptation? Sian Brett February 16, 2016 Analysis, Features, Opinion Before it was possible to potter off to the cinema for some entertainment, stories were told on the stage. And with so many classic pieces of drama continuing to be reproduced over hundreds of years, when...
Short of the Week: Prospect Dave McLaughlin February 15, 2016 Features, Independent, Short of the Week https://vimeo.com/90049558 This is not your standard coming-of-age tale. Prospect tells the story of a young girl and her father hunting through an alien forest for a rare, valuable (and disgustingly...
Top 10 Breakup Movies Nick Evan-Cook February 14, 2016 Analysis, Features, Top 10 You can keep your roses and chocolates. For the truly miserable, there's only one thing for it on Valentine's day - sit down (alone) in the dark and watch a classic breakup movie to remind yourself of all the...
Scene Stealers: Sir Anthony Hopkins in The Silence of the Lambs Daniel Orton February 13, 2016 Analysis, Features, Scene Stealers Dr Hannibal Lecter is without doubt the most terrifying villain ever to grace the big screen. FACT. The AFI has voted him the Number One villain of the last 100 years, out-villaining even the murderous loner...
Ryan Reynolds Q & A – Deadpool Interview David Brake February 12, 2016 Behind The Curtain, Features, Interview The last time we saw Deadpool, he had his mouth sewn up and his head cut off in the much maligned X-Men Origins: Wolverine. Seven years later, Ryan Reynolds is the suited-up, gun-happy Merc with a Mouth once...
Scene Stealers: Will Ferrell in Zoolander Tom Bond February 11, 2016 Analysis, Features, Scene Stealers You know, there's more to life than being really, really ridiculously good-looking. Sometimes you need a great fashion sense as well. Ben Stiller may dominate Zoolander as writer, director and idiotic lead,...
Richard Curtis: The Underrated Master of the British Romcom Phil W. Bayles February 9, 2016 Features, Nostalgia, Second Chance The late Nora Ephron was the undisputed queen of the romantic comedy. Her screenplays for such classics as When Harry Met Sally and You’ve Got Mail were sharp and insightful, and perfectly encapsulated the...
Short of the Week: Two Cars, One Night Dave McLaughlin February 8, 2016 Features, Independent, Short of the Week Ideal for post-Waitangi Day recovery, Two Cars, One Night is an Oscar-nominated short about childhood, love and connection from Taika Waititi, director of Boy. It tells of the growing love between a young boy...
The Story of Dalton Trumbo Tori Brazier February 6, 2016 Analysis, Close-Up, Features Dalton Trumbo, novelist and prolific screenwriter for nearly forty years from the 1930s, is to return to the public consciousness as a biopic of his life hits UK screens. Despite being an Oscar winner and the...
The ORWAV Playlist – February 2016 Calum Baker February 4, 2016 Behind The Curtain, Features, Music of the Movies Every four weeks, ORWAV explores the movie month ahead through the medium of song! Upcoming releases, notable births and anniversaries and a general celebration of the films, directors, technicians and...
How Tom Hiddleston Charmed Hollywood Tori Brazier February 3, 2016 Analysis, Features, Spotlight Hollywood has always enjoyed the suave English gentleman actor, ever since the days of Cary Grant and David Niven, and award-winning films and blockbuster movies alike continue to be staffed by the likes of...
Spotlight: Tom McCarthy Calum Baker February 2, 2016 Analysis, Features, Spotlight Tom McCarthy is known for many things: he’s a critically well-liked writer-director whose most recent film, Spotlight, is garnering accolades around the world. He’s a very recognisable “That guy!”...
