Why 10 Things I Hate About You is the Greatest Shakespeare Adaptation Carmen Paddock March 29, 2019 Features, Love Letter, Nostalgia Twenty years ago Heath Ledger danced his way down some bleachers and into film legend with an enthusiastic rendition of ‘Can’t Take My Eyes Off You’. Its lack of vocal finesse coupled with a total...
How Did the Chick Flick Suddenly Become a Critically Acclaimed Genre? Naomi Soanes February 16, 2018 Analysis, Features, Opinion It’s no secret that "chick flicks" are widely misunderstood as simply fodder for audiences of the teen girl persuasion. Historically, films that fall into this category (whether justified or not) are...
Top 10 Musical Numbers Phil W. Bayles March 8, 2016 Analysis, Features, Top 10 Here at ORWAV we're ridiculously excited about last week's release of the Coen Brothers’ new movie Hail, Caesar! and most of that excitement is down to Channing Tatum doing a Gene Kelly-inspired musical...
Top 10 Young Adult Adaptations Rachel Brook November 24, 2015 Analysis, Features, Top 10 With the final chapter of everyone’s favourite dystopian teen franchise, The Hunger Games (what else?), landing in cinemas this week, you may need some cinematic balm for the gaping hole it’s about to...
Beyond Clueless – Review Rachel Brook January 28, 2015 Reviews Countless words of exegesis on the teen movie have been published, but Lyne has winningly executed a fresh method that abandons the attempt to describe audiovisual media with only words, often instead letting...
A Short History of the Period Drama, Part Two: Merchant Ivory (or, the ’80s and ’90s) David Brake June 8, 2014 Analysis, Close-Up, Features 1 Comment Ask someone what they think of when you mention 1990s period drama and they might just say "Merchant Ivory" - even if they don't know what that means. Launched in 1961, the production powerhouse has become...
Shakespeare at 450: His Top Ten Adaptations on Film David Brake April 27, 2014 Analysis, Features, Top 10 165 Comments Shakespeare. It's the most famous name in the English language, ringing proudly out across the British Isles. From his first works on stage around the 1590s to Joss Whedon's Much Ado About Nothing in 2012,...