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Do you want to be Jordan Belfort? Do you want what he has? The money, the drugs, the women, the power? You’re not alone. You’re only human. Debates raged with the manic energy of coked-up stockbrokers...

“What are you thinking? How are you feeling? What have we done to each other? What will we do?” From the opening line, Gone Girl opens its stall to become a fascinating vivisection of marriage, a...

So here we go. Based on UK release dates, the team at One Room With A View have voted, and we can now reveal our Top 20 Films of 2014. What a great year of film it has been. X-Men: Days of Future Past...

A mockumentary by the undisputed master of the genre, Christopher Guest (of This Is Spinal Tap fame), Best In Show follows five pairs of owners and handlers of dogs competing in the prestigious Mayflower...

As is customary in dystopian cinema, it is hard to figure out what Kurt Wimmer’s Equilibrium (2002) is in favour of as opposed to what it condemns. Starring Christian Bale as John Preston (most likely no...

Equal parts heart-warming comedy and heart-breaking tragedy, St. Vincent is a retelling of a well-worn story which leaves the broad-strokes of the plot predictable from the start. Some salvation comes from...

The Hunger Games hasn’t given birth to twins. Instead, it has stretched out the limbs of its concluding chapter to the point of cracking dislocation. The bite of the adaptation’s first instalments has...

Why is X-Men Origins: Wolverine considered the bastard child of the blockbusting X-Men? Although it is far from the best X-Men film available, there is nothing to suggest that Origins needs relegating from...

For better or worse, if you’ve watched a mainstream US comedy in the last five years, it’s going to be riddled with improv. Horrible Bosses 2 is no different and Bateman, Day and Sudeikis offer nothing...

The Secret of Kells is a 2009 Irish-French-Belgian animated film starring Brendan Gleeson, Evan McGuire and Christen Mooney, directed by first-time Irish director Tomm Moore, for which he received an Academy...

Ambition affords an unusual luxury to ORWAV; only 6 minutes, 39 seconds to discuss in our economical 100 words… It is an impressive and dizzying 399 seconds in which a space mission meets philosophy,...

Jake Gyllenhaal unfurls creepy wings as Lou Bloom, a determined vulture ready to feather his own nest in the shade of the American Dream. Lou’s maniac eyes share the same greedy glint as his hungry camera....

Interstellar is magnificently ambitious. It is just a shame that narrative appears to be the stubbiest finger upon the grasping palm of its lofty aspirations. Nolan’s space odyssey detonates some of the...

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...

There are few logical explanations for Son of a Gun. The most probable is that writer/director Avery is getting paid by the cliché, each one more laughable and obvious than the last. It’s a shame because...