Cel Mates: The Book of Life Rory Steabler January 18, 2018 CEL Mates, Features, Independent The Book of Life bears more than a passing resemblance to Pixar’s Coco, out this week. Obviously, both are based around the Mexican tradition of the Day of the Dead, and involve protagonists going on a...
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...
How Jupiter Ascending Set a New High Bar for Trashy Sci-Fi Carmen Paddock August 1, 2017 Features, Nostalgia, Second Chance While the Wachowskis have previously found success with films like The Matrix and V for Vendetta (and an arguable, if baffling, masterpiece in Cloud Atlas), Jupiter Ascending garnered lukewarm reviews at best...
Magic Mike XXL – Review Danielle Davenport July 5, 2015 Reviews Magic Mike XXL’s scenes hang adequately in sequence: some uninteresting, some entertaining, and all of them tongue-in-cheek. It is unfortunate (depending on your point of view) that the film is consistently...
The ORWAV Playlist – July 2015 Calum Baker July 2, 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...
COMPETITION – Win Jupiter Ascending on Blu-ray! David Brake June 29, 2015 Competitions To celebrate the release of the stunning space epic Jupiter Ascending, out now on Blu-ray 3D, Blu-ray & DVD, we’re giving you the amazing chance to win a copy on Blu-ray! Here's the plot: Mila Kunis...
Second Chance: She’s the Man Olivia Luder June 3, 2015 Features, Nostalgia, Second Chance Love, scandal, epic bloodshed: there’s a reason that Shakespeare adapts so well into the teen movie genre. One overlooked gem is 2006’s Twelfth Night adaptation, She’s the Man, starring the...
COMPETITION – Win FOXCATCHER on DVD! David Brake May 12, 2015 Competitions Thanks to the extremely brilliant people at Organic Publicity and Sony Classics, we’ve got TWO DVDs of one of the most talked about films this past awards season, FOXCATCHER! Here’s the film’s...
Jupiter Ascending – Review Bertie Archer February 3, 2015 Reviews Jupiter Ascending is simply disappointing. The Wachowskis' latest film is confused, creative, crazed, colourful and contradictory, the original promise squandered by schlocky rehashes of the directors’...
The Book of Life – Review Tom Bond October 26, 2014 Reviews The Book of Life makes an intriguing attempt at exploring gender stereotypes, but often ends up reinforcing them. Maria (Saldana) ticks a few painfully clichéd feminist heroine boxes, but mostly she is never...
Foxcatcher – LFF Review Tom Bond October 21, 2014 Reviews 1 Comment Foxcatcher is a fascinating study of dedication, loneliness and power. In many ways it’s a tonally opposite companion to Whiplash. Sadly, it’s also nowhere near as good. Fry and Futterman’s script...
Hollywood’s Brightest Star: Channing Tatum David Brake July 29, 2014 Analysis, Features, Spotlight 2 Comments He weighs in at 83kg, 185cm tall and he’s the male acting equivalent of Anne Hathaway. A figure that’s often derided by critics for his apparent absence of talent, Channing Tatum is a by-word for “tries...
22 Jump Street – Review Christopher Preston June 8, 2014 Reviews 1 Comment 22 Jump Street is belly-aching, mickey-taking, cinema-shaking summer comedy at its very best. Phil Lord and Chris Miller’s follow up to their 2012 reboot does not shy away from its bigger sequel status....
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...