Top 20 Films of 2015: 2. Mad Max: Fury Road Tom Bond December 30, 2015 Analysis, Features, Top 10 Mad Max: Fury Road is undoubtedly one of the best action blockbusters of 2015. It’s also one of the most progressive, subversive and openly political films to reach such a mass audience in recent memory. It...
Blazing the Fury Road: Rise of the Feminist Action Hero Madeline Joint June 25, 2015 Analysis, Features, Opinion Well, Fury Road is pretty exciting, huh? No really. In a whole bunch of cultural ways, it's pretty goddamn exciting. Its female protagonist Furiosa, played by the frighteningly brilliant Charlize Theron, is...
Mad Max: Fury Road – Review Tom Bond May 14, 2015 Reviews There aren't enough expletives or adjectives to express quite how much you need to see Fury Road. Its brutal war-torn world, built on the liquid viscera of blood, milk and oil, is a dystopia; but the future...
Top 10 Road Movies Dave McLaughlin August 20, 2015 Analysis, Features, Top 10 Some films are great because of brilliant cinematography, attention to the play of light and shadow, or powerful acting. Other films burrow deep into our collective psyche and reveal to us something of...
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...
Best Buys For the Best Films of the 2010s Tom Bond March 24, 2020 Shop With the 2010s in the rearview mirror we took the chance to look back at our favourite films of the decade and rank them. You can see where we ended up here, and I hope you'll agree it's a great...
ORWAV’s Top 100 Films of the 2010s: #20-1 Calum Baker December 18, 2019 Analysis, Features, One Off, Top 10 In criticism, time-distance is everything: time to let a film sink in, time to give it more thought and more watches, and time to see what impact it has on the culture. Time also, often, for the artists...
Uncut Gems – Review Jack Blackwell October 12, 2019 Reviews Originally published as part of our London Film Festival coverage in October 2019 As much as American cinema is based in LA, it’s New York that has always been the country’s most iconic on-screen...
How The LEGO Movie 2 Deconstructs Toxic Masculinity Phil W. Bayles February 27, 2019 Analysis, Features, Opinion Nobody expected The LEGO Movie to be anything more than a 90-minute commercial for the bricks it was based on. But, in a move that has quickly becoming their trademark, directors Phil Lord and Chris Miller...
Team Talk – Mission: Impossible – Fallout Stephanie Watts July 29, 2018 Reviews It's the sixth outing for the Mission: Impossible franchise, yet rather than becoming lazy and stale the exploits of Ethan Hunt are still proving thrilling to fans – perhaps more so than ever. Our...
Five Movies Celebrating The Fortitude of Women Katy Moon May 3, 2018 Analysis, Features, Top 10 I Feel Pretty hits cinemas this month, bringing with it a wave of controversy after its somewhat inauspicious trailer split opinion. Whatever your take, you never really need an excuse to celebrate women in...
What Are the Best Blockbusters of All Time? 10-1 Eddie Falvey July 21, 2017 Analysis, Features, Top 10 Only 10 remain of the 50 greatest blockbusters ever made. Tensions are high, you can feel the hum of excitement in the air as faint gasps cut the silence. Elsewhere, chairs yawn with the sound of bottoms...
Your Week In Film: Theron, Manson, Gibson and more! Stephen O'Nion July 14, 2017 News 1. Guy Ritchie can show you the world (when he finds a leading man) Regarding a film that still requires a pinch in the arm to believe it exists, Guy Ritchie’s Aladdin has stalled. The Hollywood Reporter...
Fast and Furious 8 – Review Kambole Campbell April 15, 2017 Reviews The first in years not to star the late Paul Walker, Fast and Furious 8 continues the franchise’s trend of one-upping itself when it comes to implausible vehicular action – along with some pretty solid...
Your Week In Film: LEGO, Tron, Pooh, King Kong Stephen O'Nion March 3, 2017 News 1. The Oscars happened Right, that was easy. Next? 2. Jay Z has his head In the Heights Lin-Manuel Miranda may not have added the O to his EG_T on the weekend, but the creative polymath did get something...