The Hateful Eight – Review Christopher Preston January 7, 2016 Reviews Ever the alchemist, Quentin Tarantino remains obsessed with transfiguring a mélange of homages into filmic gold. But the director’s eighth yarn seemingly shares most of its genetics with an Agatha...
Hollywood’s Age Problem Sian Brett September 23, 2015 Analysis, Features, Opinion The release of Some Kind of Beautiful on 25th September sees a 62 year-old Pierce Brosnan paired with both Jessica Alba and Salma Hayek – 34 and 49 years old respectively. This kind of gendered age gap...
How Impossible Are The Mission: Impossible Films? Bertie Archer July 30, 2015 A Beginner's Guide To..., Analysis, Features Ethan Hunt: super-spy, quasi-leader of top-secret government agency, and foundation of $2 billion film franchise. The humble 1960s American television show on which the series is based has been left far...
The Overnight – Review Sian Brett July 11, 2015 Reviews The Overnight manages to be honest about sex in long-term relationships without trying too hard to be sexy about it, and Jason Schwartzman steals the show throughout as the entrepreneur and artist who...
Short of the Week – If I Die On Mars David Brake February 16, 2015 Features, Independent, Short of the Week https://vimeo.com/119124588 "If I die on Mars, it would be great". For a tale of astronomical distance, in an almost science fiction reality, If I Die on Mars has an altogether more human, warming...
Maybeland: Barbarella Madeline Joint January 16, 2015 Features, Independent, Maybeland Barbarella (1968) is campy '60s madness – hilariously dirty, adorably silly and oddly captivating. In the far future, humanity has moved past sex, war and jealousy and created a universal harmony of love -...
ORWAV’s 30 Films To Be Excited About In 2015 David Brake December 31, 2014 Analysis, Features, One Off Boyhood is our Number One for 2014, but let's be honest... the whole of 2014 was a stellar year. How can 2015 possibly match it? Well, we've done our research and here are 30 candidates in line to take your...
The Hunger Games: Mockingjay – Part 1 – Review Christopher Preston November 24, 2014 Reviews 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...
Nightcrawler – Review Christopher Preston November 2, 2014 Reviews 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 – Review Christopher Preston October 31, 2014 Reviews 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...
A Girl At My Door – LFF Review Danielle Davenport October 2, 2014 Reviews A Girl At My Door lingers in the mind. The film is intelligent and enigmatic as it charts shifting equilibriums, a beautiful landscape and its convincingly flawed inhabitants. The impact is heightened by an...
Maybeland: Logan’s Run Madeline Joint August 25, 2014 Features, Independent, Maybeland Logan’s Run (1976), starring Michael York as the titular Logan-5 and Jenny Agutter as the titillating Jessica-6, is a sublime '70s disco-era false-utopia flick that is in turns terrific fun and troublingly...
Best Films Never Made #19: Alejandro Jodorowsky’s Abel Cain and King Shot Conor Morgan August 22, 2014 Behind The Curtain, Best Films Never Made, Features 85 year old Chilean-French surrealist/mime/experimental playwright/author/comics writer/mystical therapist/artist/director/all-round fascinating guy Alejandro Jodorowsky recently premiered his first film in 23...
Adults and Animation – The Growing Acceptance of Animation Amongst Grown Ups Conor Morgan August 3, 2014 CEL Mates, Features, Independent Without a doubt, you will have heard the song Let It Go from Disney's animated film Frozen in the past few months. If you're saying you haven't, then you're lying - since its release in December, it's been...
Dawn of the Planet of the Apes – Review Tom Bond July 19, 2014 Reviews 1 Comment The most astonishing achievement of Dawn is that within seconds you forget that every ape, from chimpan-A to chimpan-Z, is played by a man in a skin-tight bodysuit. The dynamics of their new civilisation...