How Fritz Lang Broke Hollywood Joseph Bullock October 5, 2020 Analysis, Close-Up, Features Fritz Lang created some of the most indelible images in cinema. Most come from his German films: the rotund spacecraft from Woman in the Moon (1929), Peter Lorre’s panicking child-killer branded with a...
ORWAV’s Top 20 Films of 2018: #3 – You Were Never Really Here Jack Blackwell December 29, 2018 Analysis, Features, Top 10 What really separated You Were Never Really Here from other thrillers in 2018 – more so, even, than its impressionistic style and sparse dialogue – was its complete lack of hero. Lynne Ramsay’s fourth...
The Heist Film: A History Alice Rooney June 19, 2018 Analysis, Close-Up, Features As a common sub-genre of crime films, the heist is going through a renaissance. In recent years, we have moved from the likes of The Bank Job, a film where Jason Statham does exactly what the title says on the...
A Love Letter to… Sunset Boulevard Lina Jurdeczka September 11, 2014 Features, Love Letter, Nostalgia A few years ago I took a Film Studies course at university. One of the classes dealt with cinephilia – the love of film. At the beginning of the session, the lecturer asked an interesting question that...
Sin City: A Dame to Kill For – Review Cameron Ward August 27, 2014 Reviews Sin City: A Dame to Kill For fully neglects the thematic intensity of both its predecessor and literary source. Though it takes little deviation from either, Dame is disappointingly bereft of the tonal...
