Short of the Week – Benigni Rachel Brook July 20, 2015 Features, Independent, Short of the Week https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sl8M6QGnVEo Benigni is a beguiling and paradoxical fantasy of the mundane which, despite early foreshadowing, contains plenty of shock value. Skilful animation endows...
The Citizen Kane of Awful – Twilight Rachel Brook July 17, 2015 Features, Nostalgia, The Citizen Kane of Awful 1 Comment Now that a few years have passed since the Twilight phenomenon was at its peak, perhaps it’s possible to give the film adaptations a second chance, with the benefit of distanced objectivity. At least...
Scene Stealers: Will Ferrell in Wedding Crashers Sam Kerridge July 16, 2015 Analysis, Features, Scene Stealers Wedding Crashers is not a ground-breaking film. Most of the characters are unapologetically one-dimensional, the romantic dilemmas are predictable and most of the jokes were done better in American Pie, six...
Spotlight: Paul Rudd Bethany White July 15, 2015 Analysis, Features, Spotlight "60% of the time, it works every time." - Brian Fantana, Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgundy. The same could be said of Paul Rudd himself. To say he has had a varied career would be something of...
Second Chance: The Fall Ellena Zellhuber-McMillan July 14, 2015 Features, Nostalgia, Second Chance Stories within stories are a structure, and a plot device that is probably as old as the notion of telling stories. From Nelly in Wuthering Heights to the Granddad in Princess Bride, we have seen how it plays...
Short of the Week – Balance Dave McLaughlin July 13, 2015 Features, Independent, Short of the Week https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1CTesYaduBA&safe=active For those of us who grew up with the amusing antics of Wallace and Gromit, Balance can feel like the eerie, ghost-like shadow that haunts the dark...
Stories from the Set: Fritz the Cat Cathy Brennan July 10, 2015 Behind The Curtain, Features, Stories from the Set Regarded today as that film with Arthur-esque characters getting high and screwing, the 1972 film Fritz the Cat can be seen as an ancestor to raunchy cartoons like South Park and Family Guy. Today...
Spotlight: Paul Dano Nick Evan-Cook July 9, 2015 Analysis, Features, Spotlight “FFFFFUUUUUUUCCCCCCKKKKKKKK!” - Dwayne Hoover, Little Miss Sunshine This was the first word many of us heard come out of actor Paul Dano’s mouth. It comes about halfway through 2006 indiewood hit...
Top 10 Movie Moments of 2015… So Far Tom Bond July 8, 2015 Analysis, Features, Top 10 Halfway through this glorious year of film that we call 2015, we’ve decided to take stock and write about our favourite movie moments so far. We’ll save worrying about the best films of the year until...
Where Are They Now?: Back to the Future Calum Baker July 7, 2015 Features, Nostalgia, Where Are They Now? Thirty years is a long time. As Back to the Future hits its Pearl Anniversary, its performers have finally caught up with the ages they played in the 2015-set sequel. Forget the fact that we still don't have...
Short of the Week – Sahar Bethany White July 6, 2015 Features, Independent, Short of the Week https://vimeo.com/alexanderfarah/sahar What happened to Sahar? Alexander Farah’s short lets the answer hang in gloomy ambiguity. Seething with family tensions, gender politics and the clash of...
A Love Letter To… Back to the Future Phil W. Bayles July 3, 2015 Features, Love Letter, Nostalgia “Wait a minute, Doc… Are you telling me that you built a time machine… out of a DeLorean?!” Few films feel as simultaneously dated and ageless as Robert Zemeckis’ 1985 classic Back to the Future....
The ORWAV Playlist – July 2015 Calum Baker July 2, 2015 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...
Where Are They Now?: The Terminator Nick Evan-Cook July 1, 2015 Features, Nostalgia, Where Are They Now? Much like its eponymous antagonist, the Terminator franchise appears to be one that will never die. Since James Cameron's original film revitalised the action genre in 1984 we have been treated to an...
A Love Letter To… The Last Picture Show Calum Baker June 30, 2015 Features, Love Letter, Nostalgia Peter Bogdanovich's breakthrough third feature is still one of the greatest in American cinema, not least for how unexpected it was - and still is. The director came out of film criticism and venerated...
