Prisoners of the Ghostland – Review Alysha Prasad September 17, 2021 Reviews This film was previously reviewed in February 2021 as part of our Sundance Film Festival coverage. Sion Sono’s Prisoners of the Ghostland stars Nicolas Cage as Hero, an infamous bank robber who is sprung...
Futura – TIFF 2021 Review Lydia Rostant September 12, 2021 Reviews "I think that the future is a series of tomorrows", "this creed is both religious and individualistic", "fear is not what it used to be. It has turned into anxiety". Believe it or not, these are not the words...
Frankie – Review Tom Bond May 28, 2021 Reviews This film was previously reviewed in May 2019 as part of our Cannes Film Festival coverage. Any film not made for mass audiences is always at risk of sliding into a montage of first world problems, such is...
There Is No Evil – Glasgow Film Festival 2021 Review Rafaela Sales Ross February 21, 2021 Reviews In 2017, director Mohammad Rasoulof had his passport seized by the Iranian government after screening his award-winning film A Man of Integrity in Cannes. Accused of “spreading propaganda” against the...
Willy’s Wonderland – Review Daniel Theophanous February 13, 2021 Reviews What is most bizarre about Willy’s Wonderland, aside from its premise, is the fact that its star doesn’t utter a single word throughout. A wooden and burly Nicolas Cage plays The Janitor, merely called...
ORWAV’s Top 20 Films of 2020: #20 to #11 David Brake December 24, 2020 Analysis, Features, Top 10 What a year 2020 has been. Thankfully ours is not to reason why, so for now let us look for a silver lining somewhere else entirely. 2o20 was an outstanding year for movies. While our industry suffered from...
Murder Me, Monster – Review Tom Bond December 4, 2020 Reviews This film was previously reviewed in May 2018 as part of our Cannes Festival coverage. Argentinian writer-director Alejandro Fadel doesn’t pull any punches in his ghoulish and gory horror, Murder Me,...
Possessor – Review Sophie Maxwell November 28, 2020 Reviews This film was previously reviewed in October 2020 as part of our London Film Festival coverage. In Brandon Cronenberg's Possessor, Tasya Vos (Andrea Riseborough) is an assassin who enters her targets’...
Why are Filmmakers Falling for Monochrome? Rob Salusbury July 22, 2020 Analysis, Features, Opinion It may feel like a lifetime ago now but it was only back in February when Jane Fonda opened that golden envelope and sent the film world into rapture. The cinematic sensation of 2019, Parasite became the...
Top 10 Movie Moments of 2020… So Far Tom Bond June 30, 2020 Analysis, Features, Top 10 2020 has been a year to forget for many reasons. But today we’re here to focus on the positives. Even with only three months of cinema-going under our belts, the amount of incredible movie moments is as high...
The Dead and the Others – Review Tom Bond June 28, 2020 Reviews This film was previously reviewed in May 2018 as part of our Cannes Film Festival coverage. The Dead and the Others is a complex creation from directors Joao Salaviza and Renee Nader Messora, which can’t...
Are Nymphomaniac and Love Still Pointing the Way for Sex in Cinema? Rob Salusbury June 23, 2020 Analysis, Features, Opinion If films are to be believed, then it appears that most of us have basically gone celibate these days. Take a look at the BBFC’s classifications for the last few years and you’ll find a swift decline in the...
Joan of Arc – Review Tom Bond June 18, 2020 Reviews This film was previously reviewed in May 2019 as part of our Cannes Film Festival coverage. Try to work out what kind of filmmaker Bruno Dumont is and he’s bound to frustrate you. He first made his name...
Brigitte – Sheffield Doc/Fest 2020 Review Nick Davie June 14, 2020 Reviews Lynne Ramsay’s latest work is a short documentary film, showing at Sheffield Doc/Fest, capturing a detailed and intimate conversation with photographer Brigitte Lacombe. French photographer Lacombe is a...
Céline Sciamma, Water Lilies, and the Complications of Youthful Desire Nick Davie May 11, 2020 Analysis, Close-Up, Features Céline Sciamma is having a moment. Following the 2019 festival debut and this year's cinematic release ofPortrait of a Lady on Fire, she is currently the subject of Mubi UK's 'Focus on' retrospective. This...