ORWAV’s Top 20 Films of 2018: #20 to #11 David Brake December 21, 2018 Analysis, Features, Top 10 2018 has seemingly had no end. With noise and gloom surrounding our everyday lives, it's time to reflect upon a fantastic year in the world of film. The One Room With A View Top 20 films of 2018 has arrived....
Cold War is a Romantic Epic and an Ode to Hope Rachel Brook September 3, 2018 Reviews Pawel Pawlikowski’s Cold War is a far cry from the muggy atmosphere of his 2004 English-language feature My Summer of Love. As the title suggests, Cold War’s romance takes place in and is defined by...
My Summer of Love: Pawel Pawlikowski’s Finest Hour Patrick Nabarro August 30, 2018 Features, Love Letter Pawel Pawlikowski, winner of the Best Director award at this year’s Cannes Film Festival for Cold War, has become one of the world’s top contemporary auteurs almost by stealth. He’s not a filmmaker who...
Top 10 Cold War Movies Calum Baker November 27, 2015 Analysis, Features, Top 10 The decades-long Cold War is, in many ways, one of the most literary of all international conflicts - which is why, perhaps, it hasn't found as perennial a home on screen as some of its louder cousins. That...
Bridge of Spies – Review Tom Bond November 25, 2015 Reviews For someone so universally loved, Steven Spielberg can be quite a divisive director. Sometimes his sentimentality and upstanding morals warm your heart, and sometimes they stick in your throat. Bridge of Spies...
The Man From U.N.C.L.E. – Review Bertie Archer August 16, 2015 Reviews If this is how Ritchie and Cavill Bond, we’re lucky they never did. Aside from a microdot of genuine excitement and energy, U.N.C.L.E. is a masterclass in mundane, insubstantial espionage. U.N.C.L.E....
Stories from the Set: Doctor Strangelove Phil W. Bayles August 7, 2015 Behind The Curtain, Features, Stories from the Set "Mein Fuhrer... I can walk!" You don’t become one of the greatest auteurs in the history of cinema without doing a few things that make people charitably describe you as being “a few reels short of a...
The Man Who Saved the World – Review Patrick Taylor May 15, 2015 Reviews With tensions between the USA and Russia on the rise again, this film is a timely reminder of how close the world came to nuclear apocalypse in 1983. The man in question is the conflicted Stanislav...