Star Wars: The Last Jedi – Review Kambole Campbell December 12, 2017 Reviews While it is indeed a Star Wars movie, The Last Jedi is unmistakably Rian Johnson's work. The stakes are smaller and more tangible than in The Force Awakens - this is more about the emotional toll that war...
Logan Lucky – Review Phil W. Bayles August 23, 2017 Reviews At a time when white supremacists are marching in the streets, “Ocean’s Eleven in Trump’s America” could have easily become a two-hour middle finger to the Bible Belt. So perhaps the most surprising...
Scene Stealers: Adam Driver in Inside Llewyn Davis Carmen Paddock August 23, 2017 Features, Scene Stealers At first glance, the Coen brothers’ Inside Llewyn Davis is not explicitly a feel-good film. The titular antihero – a down-on-his-luck folk musician in 1960s New York – is bitter about his circumstances...
Team Talk: Silence David Brake January 8, 2017 Reviews 1 Comment It's a new year, and eight days in we're already questioning whether God exists. Martin Scorsese's Silence came out on New Year's Day in the UK and it's rather divided audiences. Critics on our shores have...
Your Week In Film: Rising Stars, Deadpool, Han Solo and more! Stephen O'Nion January 6, 2017 News 1. Nominations announced for BAFTA Rising Star Award We’ve said it before and we’ll say it again: democracy simply doesn’t work. That said, the “as voted for by you” BAFTA Rising Star Award has a...
Top 20 Films of 2016: 7. Paterson Calum Baker December 24, 2016 Analysis, Features, Top 10 Paterson lies in the valley under the Passaic Falls its spent waters forming the outline of his back. - William Carlos Williams, 'Paterson', 1926. In his first film, 1980's Permanent Vacation, Jim...
Silence – Review Bertie Archer December 16, 2016 Reviews The sound of Silence is astonishing. Insects, waves, weather, chanting, groaning and, yes, prolonged silence - these elements combine into a sensory experience at once rich and austere. The clash of languages...
Paterson – Cannes 2016 Review Nick Evan-Cook November 26, 2016 Reviews Warm, heartfelt, and unpretentious, Jim Jarmusch's latest is an absolute delight. Paterson (Adam Driver, dependably excellent as a gentle bus driver/poet with great depth) and Laura (Golshifteh...
Adam Driver: From Soldier to Sith Lord Ellena Zellhuber-McMillan November 24, 2016 Analysis, Features, Spotlight Adam Driver is an actor we just keep seeing more of. Ever since his breakout role in Lena Dunham’s Girls, Driver has quietly been gracing our screens in many different roles, culminating in his blockbuster...
Midnight Special – Berlinale 2016 Review Eddie Falvey February 14, 2016 Reviews Jeff Nichols is a great filmmaker. That Midnight Special comes close to greatness is undeniable - its first hour is a deliriously inventive, utterly arresting cosmic thriller that keeps its cards very close to...
While We’re Young – Review Rachel Brook April 3, 2015 Reviews While We’re Young is a natural progression from Baumbach’s Frances Ha, yet it breaks new ground by using older protagonists to provide a fresh perspective on twentysomething New Yorkers. Meanwhile, it...
ORWAV’s Top 20 of 2014: 2. Inside Llewyn Davis Stephen O'Nion December 29, 2014 Analysis, Features, Top 10 1 Comment "If it was never new and it doesn't gets old then it's a folk song." Starting with the music would probably be logical. Reuniting the Coens with producer T-Bone Burnett some fourteen years after O...
This Is Where I Leave You – Review Stephen O'Nion October 27, 2014 Reviews Family, eh? Ya gotta love 'em. Even when your wife is cheating on you with your boss, your mother’s demanding you home for seven days, your sister won't stop bleating advice and one of your brothers has a...
Hungry Hearts – LFF Review Tom Bond October 17, 2014 Reviews Is it possible to love not too little but too well? This is the question posed by Saverio Costanzo’s incisive and inquisitive script that follows the battle of wills as Jude (Driver) and Mina (Rohrwacher)...
What If – Review Rachel Brook August 18, 2014 Reviews 1 Comment Despite its title this isn’t a film about ‘if’, it’s about ‘when’. Yet as it progresses, sometimes ploddingly, to the inevitable conclusion the long-awaited coupling of Wallace (Radcliffe) and...