Under the Silver Lake – Review Tom Bond March 16, 2019 Reviews This review was originally published as part of our Cannes coverage on 18/05/2018. “Ever get the feeling you fucked up somewhere a long time ago and you’re living a bad version of the life you were...
Girl – Review Tom Bond March 16, 2019 Reviews This review was originally published as part of our Cannes coverage on 12/05/2018. “Enjoy puberty while it lasts.” This well-meaning advice from the titular girl’s father (Arieh Worthalter) is a...
The Amazing Spider-Man’s Failure was the Best Thing to Happen to Andrew Garfield Jack Blackwell March 13, 2019 Analysis, Features, Opinion Andrew Garfield was too handsome to be a superhero. This has never been a problem for any actor in the history of Hollywood, but it ended up being one of several factors that doomed the short-lived Amazing...
Is Captain Marvel Here to Save Women in Film? Alex Goldstein March 5, 2019 Features, One Off, Opinion It’s a big ask, being brought back from the past to save half the universe from a Mad Titan. As if that wasn't enough, the woman behind Captain Marvel is flexing her own muscles to drive change for women...
Oscar Nominations 2019: The Full Rundown Calum Baker January 22, 2019 Analysis, Features, One Off, Opinion 10 years ago, Bradley Cooper may as well have been nobody. Then he starred in The Hangover. Then... uh... The Hangover 2. But six brief years since his "serious film" breakout Silver Linings Playbook, the...
The Favourite – Review Tom Bond January 1, 2019 Reviews This review was originally published as part of our Venice Film Festival coverage on 31/08/2018. Yorgos Lanthimos and his tragicomic experiments have been a favourite of arthouse cinema for years now, from...
The House that Jack Built – Review Tom Bond December 18, 2018 Reviews This review was originally published as part of our Cannes Film Festival coverage on 16/05/2018. Lars Von Trier is back with The House that Jack Built, a 150-minute grotesque epic going deep inside the mind...
Shoplifters – Review Tom Bond November 23, 2018 Reviews This film was previously reviewed on 15/05/2018 as part of the Cannes Film Festival. Hirokazu Kore-eda is on familiar ground with Shoplifters, the story of an unconventional family unit on the fringes of...
Family Portraits in the Films of Hirokazu Kore-eda Liz Gorny November 21, 2018 Analysis, Features, Spotlight With Shoplifters, Hirokazu Kore-eda tackles his most complex family unit to date: an impoverished, patchwork household who are biologically unrelated. Only occasionally featuring shoplifting, the film's title...
Dogman – LFF 2018 Review Jack Blackwell October 14, 2018 Reviews An easy way to raise a film’s stakes is to put an infant or pet in harm's way. What impresses most in Matteo Garrone’s Dogman is that it manages to take the crown of 2018’s most stressful film while...
My Brilliant Friend – Venice 2018 Review L D September 3, 2018 Reviews Following the fight between Cannes and Netflix, Venice has this year become the VOD film festival, something that's demonstrated perfectly by HBO's My Brilliant Friend, a series directed by Saverio Costanzo...
My Summer of Love: Pawel Pawlikowski’s Finest Hour Patrick Nabarro August 30, 2018 Features, Love Letter Pawel Pawlikowski, winner of the Best Director award at this year’s Cannes Film Festival for Cold War, has become one of the world’s top contemporary auteurs almost by stealth. He’s not a filmmaker who...
The Most Exciting Films at Venice 2018 Jack Blackwell August 28, 2018 Analysis, Features, One Off When the 2018 Venice Film Festival slate was first announced, people were quick to proclaim it one of the greatest on-paper festival line-ups. We here at ORWAV can’t help but agree, and with our team off the...
Team Talk – BlacKkKlansman Rachel Brook August 27, 2018 Reviews Spike Lee is back with the characteristically audacious and opinionated BlacKkKlansman, and according to our Senior Features Ed, Tom, this is nothing but good. Tom awarded the latest Spike Lee joint a...
Top 10 Movie Moments of 2018… So Far Tom Bond July 13, 2018 Analysis, Features, Top 10 Summer means several things: Wimbledon, being cooked alive on the tube, and checking to see whether it's come home yet (it hasn't). It also means the release of our annual list charting the best movie moments...