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After beginning life as a 13-minute short film, Thunder Road arrives in UK cinemas this week. The original depiction of a police officer awkwardly yet poignantly mourning his recently deceased mother through...

Damien Chazelle trades in the arts for the sciences with First Man, focusing in on Neil Armstrong’s moon landing in this handsome, technically astonishing awards contender. It’s a surprising choice for the...

Damien Chazelle trades in the arts for the sciences with First Man, focusing in on Neil Armstrong’s moon landing in this handsome, technically astonishing awards contender. It’s a surprising choice for the...

1. Don’t panic, but Star Wars: Episode IX just got a new writer Despite the fact that director Colin Trevorrow and his writing partner Derek Connolly have been working on the script for Star Wars: Episode...

When awards season rolls round, romantic comedies generally don’t get to see much of the action. Since Annie Hall won the Oscar for Best Picture in 1978, only a select few have come close: Shakespeare in...

Everyone's got their favourite filmmakers: from Scorsese to Spielberg, Cuarón to the Coens and Wes Anderson to Paul Thomas Anderson - but which of these famous directors are you most like? Apropos of...

Here at ORWAV we're nothing if not cynical trouble-makers, keen to upset some applecarts, rock some boats, and start a revolution. By which we mean that for the ORWAV Oscars 2017, votes have been counted by...

Damien Chazelle's nostalgic musical La La Land puts its behind-the-scenes artists to full use, creating poetic and fanciful imagery and prompting the question of who the author of a film really is. It's a...

Here at ORWAV, we just can't stop talking about La La Land. And with good reason - Damien Chazelle's modern take on old-school Hollywood has been nominated for an impressive 14 Academy Awards, and enchanted...

Winning a record 7 Golden Globes this year, La La Land is seemingly unstoppable. Adored by critics, lapped up by the public, it can seemingly do no wrong this golden child of 2017. Our Kambole saw this all...

Garlanded with seven Golden Globes and 11 BAFTA nominations, generating some serious Oscar buzz and collecting rave reviews, La La Land is the hottest ticket in town. A joyful Hollywood-set picture and a...

Damien Chazelle's third feature, La La Land, confirms two trends in the director's still relatively young career. Firstly, an inclination towards jazz. Secondly, a tendency to make thrilling, moving...

The Hollywood Foreign Press Association has spoken! The Golden Globes 2017 results are in and there's one big winner in the form of La La Land. Scooping seven gongs including all the major categories (Actor,...

Whiplash is One Room With A View’s best film of 2015, beating all other competition since its UK release date of January 16th. That’s all the more impressive when you think how tough the competition has...

At the heart of Whiplash lies an uncomfortable truth, relentlessly hammered home with the force of a thousand drumbeats. To be truly great at anything you need to work till you bleed, work until you hate...