Long Shot – Review Jack Blackwell April 19, 2019 Reviews It’d be understandable to be dubious about the ‘Charlize Theron falls for Seth Rogen’ premise of Long Shot. How many more elegant woman with schlubby dude romances do we need? Yet, Long Shot is so warm,...
Mowgli: Legend of the Jungle – Review Tom McAdam December 15, 2018 Reviews Originally scheduled for release back in 2016 before being blindsided by Disney announcing a remake of their own, Andy Serkis’ directorial effort has finally found its footing on Netflix, bringing us a new...
Black Panther – Review Stephanie Watts February 8, 2018 Reviews Black Panther is the first Marvel instalment of 2018, and it’s opening the year with a bang. Featuring an enormously talented cast, the film tells the story of the Black Panther T’Challa (Chadwick Boseman)...
ORWAV’s Unlikely Picks for the 2018 Oscars Tom Bond January 22, 2018 Analysis, Features, Top 10 Every year your favourite films are robbed (robbed, you hear me!) of the little gold statues they deserve. And we all know why. Despite the bold changes begun in the wake of #OscarsSoWhite, the Academy...
Breathe – Review Louise Burrell October 28, 2017 Reviews This was originally reviewed on 04/10/17 as part of London Film Festival. A sweeping and truly British love story, Breathe marks the directorial debut of Andy Serkis. He tackles the true story of Robin...
Breathe – LFF 2017 Review Louise Burrell October 4, 2017 Reviews A sweeping and truly British love story, Breathe marks the directorial debut of Andy Serkis. He tackles the true story of Robin Cavendish (Andrew Garfield), a young man in the late 1950s who suddenly finds his...
War for the Planet of the Apes – Review Christopher Preston July 7, 2017 Reviews Like a virus, Hollywood has evolved to survive. Its most recent business has been to sidle towards us, camelhair overcoat flapped open, exposing fix upon fix stitched into the lining – each one an...
Your Week In Film: Jurassic, JJ, Jungle, Jason and Jon (Favreau) Stephen O'Nion April 22, 2016 News 1. Tony Stark to return for Spider-Man: Homecoming It has long been suspected that Robert Downey Jr. has been looking to hang up his (iron) boots and retire from the MCU but that moment is not yet here. The...
Dawn of the Planet of the Apes – Review Tom Bond July 19, 2014 Reviews 1 Comment The most astonishing achievement of Dawn is that within seconds you forget that every ape, from chimpan-A to chimpan-Z, is played by a man in a skin-tight bodysuit. The dynamics of their new civilisation...