Golden Globes 2015 Results David Brake January 12, 2015 Analysis, Features, One Off The Hollywood Foreign Press Association has spoken! The Golden Globes 2015 results are in and there's a strong selection of winners. Richard Linklater's tremendous Boyhood scooped Best Motion Picture - Drama...
A Love Letter to… Invictus Bertie Archer January 11, 2015 Features, Love Letter, Nostalgia South Africa was on the brink of civil war in the early 1990s. Nelson Mandela’s release from prison was not the start of the troubles - he had been in prison for decades for fighting the institutional...
Scene Stealers: J.K. Simmons in Spider-Man Nick Evan-Cook January 9, 2015 Analysis, Features, Scene Stealers “Cash money for a picture of Spider-Man!” The beauty of J.K. Simmons as an actor is that he has made a career out of stealing the thunder of his better-known, more highly-paid co-stars. Rarely being...
Taken 3 – Interview with Olivier Megaton Cameron Ward January 6, 2015 Behind The Curtain, Features, Interview Take me once, shame on you. Take me twice, shame on me. What happens when it happens the third time? We sat down with Taken 3 director Olivier Megaton to talk about the process, the franchise, and what...
Short of the Week – Lost Cubert David Brake January 5, 2015 Features, Independent, Short of the Week The arrival of a new year gives individuals a chance to re-evaluate their place in life, in a bid to tackle the common felt modern malaise. In Lost Cubert the protagonist is the exaggerated embodiment...
A Love Letter To… What Ever Happened To Baby Jane? Lina Jurdeczka January 4, 2015 Features, Love Letter, Nostalgia Less than a week into the new year we can finally sit back and rest after December’s blur of Christmas shopping and family visits. Everything is beginning to go back to normal now, and we have almost...
Scene Stealers: Jane Lynch in Role Models Ellena Zellhuber-McMillan January 3, 2015 Analysis, Features, Scene Stealers Jane Lynch has been making people laugh since her career began, but she really became a household name in 2009 when she began playing Sue Sylvester in Fox television series Glee. Despite perhaps being most...
ORWAV’s 30 Films To Be Excited About In 2015 David Brake December 31, 2014 Analysis, Features, One Off Boyhood is our Number One for 2014, but let's be honest... the whole of 2014 was a stellar year. How can 2015 possibly match it? Well, we've done our research and here are 30 candidates in line to take your...
ORWAV’s Top 20 of 2014: 1. Boyhood Eddie Falvey December 30, 2014 Analysis, Features, Top 10 So here it is, that precious moment you have all been waiting for with bated breath - welcome to One Room With A View’s Number 1 film of 2014; welcome to Richard Linklater’s masterpiece; welcome to...
ORWAV’s Top 20 of 2014: 2. Inside Llewyn Davis Stephen O'Nion December 29, 2014 Analysis, Features, Top 10 1 Comment "If it was never new and it doesn't gets old then it's a folk song." Starting with the music would probably be logical. Reuniting the Coens with producer T-Bone Burnett some fourteen years after O...
ORWAV’s Top 20 of 2014: 3. 12 Years A Slave Nick Evan-Cook December 28, 2014 Analysis, Features, Top 10 3 Comments "I don't want to survive. I want to live." No list compiling the best films of 2014, or indeed this century, could fail to mention the staggering cinematic achievement that is Steve McQueen’s 12 Years a...
ORWAV’s Top 20 of 2014: 4. Under the Skin Danielle Davenport December 27, 2014 Analysis, Features, Top 10 3 Comments “You don’t want to wake up, do you?” The response to Under the Skin is visceral. Jonathan Glazer’s visually spectacular and profoundly unsettling masterpiece is a film that has polarised critics...
ORWAV’s Top 20 Of 2014: 5. The Wolf Of Wall Street Tom Bond December 26, 2014 Analysis, Features, Top 10 2 Comments Do you want to be Jordan Belfort? Do you want what he has? The money, the drugs, the women, the power? You’re not alone. You’re only human. Debates raged with the manic energy of coked-up stockbrokers...
Stories from the Set: It’s a Wonderful Life Patrick Taylor December 25, 2014 Behind The Curtain, Features, Stories from the Set In terms of classics, they don’t come much more timeless than Frank Capra’s 1947 seasonal showpiece It’s a Wonderful Life. Starring James Stewart and Donna Reed, the film has been a staple of familial...
A Love Letter To… Trading Places Patrick Taylor December 24, 2014 Features, Love Letter, Nostalgia Trading Places (1983) is not a film often mentioned on many people’s list of favourite Christmas films. Though it may not have as many obvious festive touch-points as revered classics such as It’s a...