The Oscars 2015 | 87th Academy Awards | Live Blog David Brake February 22, 2015 Analysis, Features, One Off Welcome to One Room With A View's (soon-to-be) LIVE coverage of the 87th Academy Awards! Tonight's ceremony in Los Angeles will be hosted by Neil Patrick Harris, whereas our ceremony will be hosted by yours...
CEL Mates: The Secret of Kells Conor Morgan November 19, 2014 CEL Mates, Features, Independent The Secret of Kells is a 2009 Irish-French-Belgian animated film starring Brendan Gleeson, Evan McGuire and Christen Mooney, directed by first-time Irish director Tomm Moore, for which he received an Academy...
Where Are They Now?: Oscar Winners David Brake November 14, 2014 Features, Nostalgia, Where Are They Now? Receiving that little golden statue is seen as the pinnacle of any actor's career. Post-Oscar, the likes of Meryl Streep, Daniel Day-Lewis and Audrey Hepburn all continue(d) to achieve great success but for...
A Love Letter To… Life Of Pi Danielle Davenport November 8, 2014 Features, Love Letter, Nostalgia I first saw Life of Pi in immersive, delicate and dreamlike 3-D, and left the cinema enraptured by the story I’d seen. The spectacle of the film offered adventure, emotion, allegorical insight, and stunning...
A Love Letter To… Being John Malkovich Conor Morgan October 18, 2014 Features, Love Letter, Nostalgia Continuing the recent trend of articles about Spike Jonze on One Room With A View, here's a Love Letter dedicated to Being John Malkovich and why it's a work of genius that should be adored by everyone....
Scene Stealers: Ben Affleck in Shakespeare in Love Andy J Smith August 10, 2014 Analysis, Features, Scene Stealers Starlet of the 71st Academy Awards in 1999, Shakespeare in Love is a film that offers comedy, heartfelt sincerity and some brilliant performances. Tom Stoppard and Marc Norman’s script leaps off the screen...
Adults and Animation – The Growing Acceptance of Animation Amongst Grown Ups Conor Morgan August 3, 2014 CEL Mates, Features, Independent Without a doubt, you will have heard the song Let It Go from Disney's animated film Frozen in the past few months. If you're saying you haven't, then you're lying - since its release in December, it's been...
Maybeland: Children of Men Madeline Joint July 13, 2014 Features, Independent, Maybeland In 2027 the youngest human on Earth is killed. None will come after him. They’ve all stopped: there are no more pregnancies, no more births, no more babies, and no answers. In the chaos of the 18 years since...
Maybeland: Her Madeline Joint June 29, 2014 Features, Independent, Maybeland 3 Comments Maybeland is a new feature exploring all the Brave New Worlds of cinema, a look at the various visions of the future – utopic, dystopic and in-between – that all have their own style, predictions and ideas...
The Wind Rises – Review Christopher Preston May 11, 2014 Reviews 4 Comments Hayao Miyazaki’s films have always been bathwater cinema; warm and comforting and so enchantingly illustrated that we never truly want to leave them. The grief of being hoisted out of The Wind Rises,...
Stories from the Set: Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs Tori Brazier March 12, 2014 Behind The Curtain, Features, Stories from the Set 1 Comment Walt Disney Animation Studios, still flying high with 2013’s colossal success Frozen, has long been considered the premier studio for animated projects – since, in fact, its time as Disney Brothers Cartoon...
Impossibly Early Predictions: The 87th Academy Awards Calum Baker March 10, 2014 Analysis, Features, One Off 1 Comment We've had a week to come down. A week to talk about how great Cate Blanchett and Lupita Nyong'o were, how, er, unique Kim Novak's presentational style was, and how incredibly predictable the Academy Awards...
The Celluloid Ceiling: International Women’s Day In Film David Brake March 8, 2014 Analysis, Close-Up, Features 2 Comments HOLLYWOOD Hey, you. Do you know how much 2013's female-fronted movies made at the box office? No? Care to guess? With their totals combined, major Hollywood films like Gravity, The Hunger Games: Catching...
Stories from the Set: Gone with the Wind Tori Brazier January 25, 2014 Behind The Curtain, Features, Stories from the Set 1939 was the biggest year for quality movie-making that Hollywood had ever seen, with classics such as Stagecoach, The Wizard of Oz, Mr. Smith Goes to Washington and Ninotchka all nominees for the Best Picture...
Extremely Premature Oscar Predictions – How Did We Do? David Brake January 16, 2014 Analysis, Features, One Off Back in November, we made our extremely premature Oscar predictions and with the real nominations released today, let's have a look at how we did, and potentially mock/celebrate our soothsayer ways. BEST...
