ORWAV’s 30 Films To Be Excited About In 2016 David Brake January 3, 2016 Analysis, Features, One Off How the hell is it 2016? Time sure flies when you've had a year of film that good. In 2015 we were graced with Carol, Ex Machina, Inside Out, Mad Max: Fury Road, The Martian and Mission: Impossible - Rogue...
A Beginner’s Guide to… Queer Cinema Madeline Joint December 30, 2015 A Beginner's Guide To..., Analysis, Features Unless you’re already heavily involved in queer studies you may well balk at the sound of ‘queer cinema’. For the majority of people who only know ‘queer’ as a slur, it might be a surprise to find...
Top 20 Films of 2015: 20 to 11 David Brake December 22, 2015 Analysis, Features, Top 10 It's here! The One Room With A View Top 20 films of 2015 has landed. It's been an extraordinary year of cinema, and this was one of the closest years we've seen in the vote. With positions constantly changing,...
Short of the Week: Two and Two Nick Evan-Cook December 7, 2015 Features, Independent, Short of the Week https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kHOOV83j7bo Babak Anvari's Persian 2011 BAFTA-nominated short Two and Two uses a classroom setting and its credulous inhabitants to highlight the absurdity and...
The ORWAV Playlist – September 2015 Calum Baker September 8, 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...
Trainwreck and Talking Bodies: Are Jokes About Periods the New Feminist Film Revolution? David Brake August 19, 2015 Analysis, Features, Opinion About halfway through Amy Schumer's breakout debut Trainwreck, her protagonist (also named Amy) explains to her sister that she's terrified of falling for her romantic lead because, in her experience of...
The Story of Primer – The Best Sci-Fi You Haven’t Seen Tom Bond August 19, 2015 Analysis, Close-Up, Features The middle of the summer blockbuster season seems an appropriate time to look back at a film which rebelled against so many of that genre’s defining traits. 10 years ago, Shane Carruth’s sci-fi Primer was...
Should The Diary Of A Teenage Girl Be Rated 18? Eddie Falvey August 11, 2015 Analysis, Features, Opinion This feature contains mild spoilers for The Diary of a Teenage Girl. The primary topic of discussion surrounding the release of Marielle Heller's Sundance hit The Diary of a Teenage Girl has been its...
The Diary Of A Teenage Girl – Review Nick Evan-Cook August 8, 2015 Reviews Questions about its certification aside, writer-director Marielle Heller's Sundance hit The Diary of a Teenage Girl succeeds thanks to its honest, intelligent script and a bold, star-making performance...
The ORWAV Playlist – August 2015 Calum Baker August 6, 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...
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...
COMPETITION – Win The Voices on DVD! David Brake July 7, 2015 Competitions It's competition season over at One Room With A View! Up next, thanks to our great new friends at Noble PR, we've got three copies of The Voices to win ! Not heard of it? Shame on you. Check out the...
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...
A Beginner’s Guide To… Westerns Eddie Falvey June 24, 2015 A Beginner's Guide To..., Analysis, Features The Western genre is sumptuously classical, historically entwined with cinema since its birth - and yet it is also helplessly turbulent, subject to postcolonial criticism for the histories it depicts in its...
The ORWAV Playlist – June 2015 Calum Baker June 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...
