Loving – Review Nick Evan-Cook February 5, 2017 Reviews Its fascinating subject and a pair of wonderfully nuanced performances - from the glowing and defiant Ruth Negga in particular - can't keep Loving from feeling somewhat safe and unadventurous, helmed though it...
Your Week In Film: Batman, Aquaman, Kidman and more! Stephen O'Nion February 3, 2017 News 1. First photo for Ocean’s 8 washes up Warner Bros. have released the first picture for the hotly anticipated heist ‘em up Ocean’s 8 so now we can frantically speculate about what will happen in the...
Pablo Larraín: Bringing Edge to the Period Biopic Nick Evan-Cook January 19, 2017 Analysis, Features, Spotlight Chile is not all lovely wine, productive copper mines, and functional yet attractive attacking football - in recent years its diverse, powerful and cultured arthouse cinema industry has enjoyed a strong and...
Your Week In Film: Golden Globes, Blue Eyes, Pink Elephants Stephen O'Nion January 13, 2017 News 1. Golden Globes love La La Land, Aaron Taylor-Johnson Sunday night saw the 74th Golden Globes roll into town and hand out a whole load of awards to La La Land. Best Motion Picture (Musical/Comedy), Best...
Your Week In Film: Rising Stars, Deadpool, Han Solo and more! Stephen O'Nion January 6, 2017 News 1. Nominations announced for BAFTA Rising Star Award We’ve said it before and we’ll say it again: democracy simply doesn’t work. That said, the “as voted for by you” BAFTA Rising Star Award has a...
ORWAV’s 30 Films To Be Excited About In 2017 David Brake January 4, 2017 Analysis, Features, One Off 2016 was a great year of film. Honest to God, our Top 20 was the strongest it's ever been. And we're not too bad at predicting the frontrunners either. Captain America: Civil War, Everybody Wants Some!!, The...
Assassin’s Creed – Review David Brake January 3, 2017 Reviews For an adaptation such as this, the stonefaced take is bold and offers the film respectability and weight. Heavily influenced by his own last outing, Macbeth, Justin Kurzel sticks to his strengths as a...
Top 20 Films of 2016: 6. The Neon Demon Christopher Preston December 26, 2016 Analysis, Features, Top 10 “Beauty isn’t everything. It's the only thing.” 2016 has been the year of the troll. Since ORWAV's last Top Ten, Britain has wrenched herself out of the European Union, Donald Trump has gone from...
The ORWAV Christmas Gift Guide 2016 Tom Bond December 14, 2016 Competitions 2016 has been a bit of a shitshow. Half the western world has been stunned by that shock political duo, Trump and Brexit, and if you weren’t disappointed by them, then you were definitely rocked by the...
Ghost Dog and Jim Jarmusch’s Weird Outsiders Kambole Campbell November 25, 2016 Analysis, Close-Up, Features Mixing hip-hop flair with the samurai ethos, arthouse cool with wild action sequences, and Forest Whitaker with a bunch of birds, Jim Jarmusch's Ghost Dog: The Way of the Samurai couldn’t be a stranger,...
Adam Driver: From Soldier to Sith Lord Ellena Zellhuber-McMillan November 24, 2016 Analysis, Features, Spotlight Adam Driver is an actor we just keep seeing more of. Ever since his breakout role in Lena Dunham’s Girls, Driver has quietly been gracing our screens in many different roles, culminating in his blockbuster...
Cultivating A Cult: The Trial of The Greasy Strangler Christopher Preston November 5, 2016 Analysis, Features, Opinion "Too much grease is bad for you. I read it in a fitness magazine someone left on the bus." All films are guilty of wanting something. Just look at 2016's offerings: March played host to the...
Your Week In Film: Trainspotting, Escape Planning, Snow Whiting and more! Stephen O'Nion November 4, 2016 News 1. The Flash loses its director. Again. Just four months after jumping on board, Rick Famuyiwa has departed Warner Bros’ adaptation of The Flash citing “creative differences”. According to The...
13 Things We Know About The 2017 Oscar Race Calum Baker November 1, 2016 Analysis, Features, One Off OK, so there are more than 13 things we know about the 2017 Oscar race. We know, for instance, all the usual givens such as the 0% chance of Captain America: Civil War being nominated for Best Picture, or...
What to Watch from the BFI’s Black Star Season Kambole Campbell October 26, 2016 A Beginner's Guide To..., Analysis, Features Over the past few years there has been a renewed push for representation of black voices in Hollywood. With recent online campaigns such as #OscarsSoWhite, and more physical movements like Black Lives Matter,...