Cyrano – Review Carmen Paddock February 23, 2022 Reviews With at least eleven faithful and a dozen loose adaptations of Cyrano de Bergerac committed to film, Wright’s return to top romantic form stands out as a musical. The plot remains the same: soldier and poet...
ORWAV’s Top 20 Films of 2020: #6 – Babyteeth Josefine Algieri December 29, 2020 Analysis, Features, Top 10 In a year so dominated by collective illness, loss, and pain, focusing on the tragedy of a single family for two hours can feel remarkably refreshing. Shannon Murphy’s debut feature Babyteeth is an intimate...
Babyteeth – Review Tom Bond December 8, 2020 Reviews This film was previously reviewed in September 2019 as part of our Venice Film Festival coverage. It’s hard to avoid the twin evils of mawkishness and misery when making a film about cancer, but Shannon...
The King – Venice 2019 Review Tom Bond September 4, 2019 Reviews Defeat the French at Agincourt? In that body? From his opening scenes as a spoilt emo princeling, whoring his way around Eastcheap, it’s hard to buy the French-American Timothée Chalamet as the legendary...
Team Talk – Captain Marvel Stephanie Watts March 10, 2019 Reviews Captain Marvel, the Marvel Cinematic Universe's first solo female superhero film since the series began with 2008's Iron Man, has been capturing the hearts of many critics and audience members this...
Robin Hood – Review David Brake November 24, 2018 Reviews It's always worse when your parents tell you they're not angry, they're just disappointed. How would they react when you managed to achieve both, and yet neither at the same time? Wonder no more and say hello...
Ready Player One – Review Tom Bond March 20, 2018 Reviews Steven Spielberg: we’re not angry, we’re just disappointed. And also quite angry, to be honest. The man himself could be blindfolded and still direct one of the best films of any given year, but in...
Your Week In Film: Zellweger, Mendelsohn, Hardy and more! Stephen O'Nion October 27, 2017 News 1. First photo from Venom bodes well for lens flare fans We finally have a photo from Tom Hardy’s upcoming inhabitation of the infamous Marvel villain, Venom. Of course, it’s just a candid photo from the...
Una – Review Rachel Brook September 3, 2017 Reviews The best aspect of Una is its scrambled chronology. Flashbacks break up what could otherwise be a rather repetitive two-hander, albeit one made up of fine performances from both Rooney Mara and Ben Mendelsohn....
Your Week In Film: Awards Season, DC Cohesion and Vin Diesel’s Treason Stephen O'Nion December 16, 2016 News 1. La La Land and Moonlight are looking golden, me ol’ china plate The Golden Globes—Hollywood’s generous, chuckling uncle of an awards ceremony—has announced its list of favourite nieces and...
Rogue One: A Star Wars Story – Review Bertie Archer December 13, 2016 Reviews Breathe. This is the prequel you were looking for. From the very first moments it's clear that Rogue One stands distinctly alone in style and tone, yet blends almost seamlessly into the existing canon - quite...
Mississippi Grind – Review Alex Flood October 26, 2015 Reviews A nuanced performance from leading man Ben Mendelsohn elevates this by-the-numbers buddy movie into a stuttering character study about good people who do bad things. Taking its cue from classic The Sting,...
Slow West – Review Nick Evan-Cook June 25, 2015 Reviews Despite getting off to a slow (wahey!) start, Slow West picks up pace as it craftily builds its world, tone and characters to culminate in a pulsating and well-earned finale. That Slow West is the...
Lost River – Review Rachel Brook April 11, 2015 Reviews Virtually plotless, Lost River is a lurid technicolour nightmare featuring a senseless mishmash of shot types, a warped Miss Havisham and a caricaturish Matt Smith. There’s no subtlety here; the sparse...
Ten Degrees of Trivia: Maleficent Tom Bond June 11, 2014 Features, Nostalgia, Ten Degrees of Trivia Love trivia? Love six degrees of Kevin Bacon? Then you’ve come to the right place. Ten Degrees of Trivia combines the two to take you on a journey through the world of loosely connected facts, beginning and...