A Beginner’s Guide to… Cate Blanchett Carmen Paddock September 20, 2018 A Beginner's Guide To..., Analysis, Features Back on screens this week with the release of The House with a Clock in Its Walls, iconic Australian actress Cate Blanchett is adding a children’s fantasy film to her impressive list of achievements. She is...
News of the Week – 18th March 2016 Stephen O'Nion March 18, 2016 News The Weekly Report All news contained herein corresponds to the world of film. The Weekly Report will seek to cover general film news that has emerged over the last seven days. Olivia Wilde “too...
ORWAV Oscars 2016 – The Nominations Tom Bond February 23, 2016 Analysis, Features, One Off As the 2016 awards season rumbles to a close, here at ORWAV we felt it was about time someone crashed the party. With the #OscarsSoWhite once more, and some big names like Todd Haynes and Quentin...
2016 Oscar Nominations: Did They Get It Right? Patrick Taylor January 14, 2016 Analysis, Debate, Features So, the Academy Awards are upon us once more and this year's band of intrepid nominees have been released into the wild to vie for golden-statue-glory on 22nd February. We've assembled a crack team of our own...
A Beginner’s Guide to… Queer Cinema Madeline Joint December 30, 2015 A Beginner's Guide To..., Analysis, Features Unless you’re already heavily involved in queer studies you may well balk at the sound of ‘queer cinema’. For the majority of people who only know ‘queer’ as a slur, it might be a surprise to find...
Top 20 Films of 2015: 5. Carol J B Queree December 27, 2015 Analysis, Features, Top 10 Carol is a glimpse of a faded memory; a divine reverie conjured from the depths of your gut by a familiar smell, a lilting melody, or a pensive silence. What other films may struggle to say with extended...
Carol – Review Tom Bond November 29, 2015 Reviews Every now and then a film makes you fall in love with cinema all over again. Often it’s hard to explain why. Maybe it’s the glimmering, burnished beauty of the cinematography. Maybe it’s the guiding...
The Oscar Goes To… ? The 2016 Oscars Race May Be The Closest Yet David Brake November 4, 2015 Analysis, Features, Opinion It's 116 days till the Oscars. It's early November, and yet we do not have our champion for Best Picture. Well, we may have several. Usually we will have our frontrunners by now, but at present, anybody could...
The ORWAV Playlist – November 2015 Calum Baker November 3, 2015 Behind The Curtain, Features, Music of the Movies Every four weeks, ORWAV explores the movie month ahead through the medium of song! Upcoming releases, notable births and anniversaries and a general celebration of the films, directors, technicians and...
ORWAV’s Best of the London Film Festival 2015 Tom Bond October 21, 2015 Analysis, Features, One Off At the start of the 2015 London Film Festival, festival director Clare Stewart announced it was "the year of the strong women". Our summary of the best of the festival suggests that she just might have been...
Impossibly Early Oscar Predictions – 2015-16 Calum Baker March 3, 2015 Analysis, Features, One Off 2 Comments Okay ORWeenies, it's that time of year again. After we punted for Gone Girl, Interstellar, Inherent Vice, Into the Woods, Unbroken and Foxcatcher last time (as well as Theory of Everything, Imitation Game,...
