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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1QAI4B_2Mfc Paperman has an old-fashioned simplicity about it; it makes no attempts to be clever or flash, but instead produces a charming, beautifully animated and funny...

It seems that, nowadays, pretty much any band or artist you care to name from any genre of music has a documentary about them - which understandably makes it difficult to know where to begin. Never fear, ORWAV...

The release of Force Majeure sees a welcome return to that most reliable of film genres – the natural disaster movie. This got us thinking about the "classics" of this peculiar cinematic niche. Not many of...

Where does one begin with Keanu Reeves? Recently endowed with an (un)healthy dose of the Nic Cage effect – that is, being caught on the slippery slope of diminishing returns – Keanu is now one of the most...

Don Hertzfeldt is a one-of-a-kind genius. While his contemporaries balance on the cutting-edge of animation technology or push to preserve the retro charm of hand-drawn styles, he stands proudly in a niche of...

Disney is an institution synonymous with princesses. They are the owners of a mammoth marketing and merchandising machine that has seen their heroines make regular (and often overwhelming) appearances at any...

https://youtu.be/s1CIGKiz8xo L.A. comedy scene up-and-comer Andre Hyland's Sundance selected short Funnel succeeds precisely because of its obvious limitations rather than in spite of...

What do Oliver Reed, Brandon Lee, Natalie Wood and Paul Walker all have in common? The answer to that rather macabre pub quiz question is that all of them are examples of actors who have died during production...

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...

Robert Altman’s name may well be familiar to many and yet he often remains something of a cipher to all but the most ardent film fans. Subversive, difficult, independent, prolific, genius; these are just a...

Con Air is a 1996 action blockbuster directed by Simon West, and has a reputation for being ridiculous, unbelievable and over the top - one that's entirely deserved. In the vast majority of instances, that's...

https://vimeo.com/116525391 From the roaring flame of a burgeoning romance to the extinguished remnants of love’s conclusion. This Is When We Met compresses the pain and elation of a relationship's...

When writing his review of Brick for Rolling Stone, Peter Travers stated that the film’s director, Rian Johnson, ‘risked ridicule’ by setting his neo-noir in a high school. Arguably, the bigger risk was...

It is fair to say that Pearl Harbor’s turkey credentials are now the stuff of legend. A question remains, however: is Pearl Harbor really so bad as to deserve being lumped together with such...

What are you looking at? A laptop, a tablet, a smartphone? Whatever you’re reading these words on, it’s probably a rectangle, framing the text and the images and this article in a standard space. This...