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...
ORWAV’s Top 100 Films of the 2010s: #40-21 Calum Baker December 15, 2019 Analysis, Features, One Off, Top 10 The ground is littered with fantastic and fascinating titles that just failed to make our top 100 films of the decade: Margaret, Blade Runner 2049, Foxtrot. Somehow Michael Pearce’s “moody”, empty Ramsay...
ORWAV’s Top 100 Films of the 2010s: #60-41 Calum Baker December 14, 2019 Analysis, Features, One Off, Top 10 Our countdown of the Top 100 Films of the Decade continues apace as we start reaching the titles with some very high aggregate scores. Debate continues to rage over the relative merits of (usually heavy)...
ORWAV’s Top 100 Films of the 2010s: #80-61 Calum Baker December 13, 2019 Analysis, Features, One Off, Top 10 At its very best, cinema not only influences its audience but changes the very medium around it; a great film builds itself as it plays, showing you how to view it and redefining itself in real time. And this...
ORWAV’s Top 100 Films of the 2010s: #100-81 Calum Baker December 12, 2019 Analysis, Features, One Off, Top 10 Another decade, another dollar – billions and billions of dollars, that is, spent on both making and watching films. Early 2010 saw Avatar clamber to the first-ever $2 billion gross, becoming the biggest...
The Directors That Defined the 2010s Carmen Paddock December 11, 2019 Analysis, Features, Opinion Much can be said about the cinema of the 2010s, from Oscars drama and the legacy of #MeToo to the dominance of Disney and emergence of streaming platforms in film distribution. The films driving and reacting...
