The Wonder – Review Jess Goodman November 19, 2022 Reviews "We are nothing without stories, so we invite you to believe in this one.” These are the words that introduce The Wonder. Adapted from the novel by Emma Donoghue, the film begins not in the Irish Midlands in...
Black Widow – Review Anahit Behrooz July 9, 2021 Reviews This article contains spoilers for Avengers: Endgame Say what you will about the MCU, it is without a doubt cinema’s most punctual franchise. With 23 films released over 11 years, the arrival of a new...
ORWAV’s Top 20 Films of 2020: #3 – Little Women Anahit Behrooz December 30, 2020 Analysis, Features, Top 10 Editor note - While Little Women was released on the 26th December 2019 in the UK, due to time constraints our group of writers did not get the chance to vote for it in last year's Top 20. For that reason, we...
ORWAV’s Top 20 Films of 2019: #5 – Midsommar Eddie Falvey December 30, 2019 Analysis, Features, Top 10 – 2019 has been a great year for film. As this list has illustrated and will continue to illustrate, 2019 saw bountiful returns from budding auteurs Barry Jenkins (If Beale Street Could Talk) and Greta...
Little Women – Review Ben Flanagan December 27, 2019 Reviews Walking out of Little Women, it's hard to think that a more perfect adaptation of an already perfect novel exists. Sense and Sensibility (1995) and The Age of Innocence (1993) perhaps come close, but neither...
Midsommar and the Horrors of Anxiety Phil W. Bayles July 12, 2019 Analysis, Features, Opinion This article contains major spoilers for Midsommar. Ari Aster doesn’t make horror movies; he makes anxiety movies. His filmography is less concerned with things that go bump in the night than provoking...
Midsommar – Review Katy Moon July 9, 2019 Reviews If anyone was worried that burgeoning horror auteur Ari Aster was going to mellow out after his disturbing debut, you can sleep easy. Aster’s latest (which shares more than a passing resemblance to...
Fighting With My Family – Review James Andrews March 1, 2019 Reviews Wrestlers have a long tradition of going from the ring to the big screen, from Hulk Hogan and Roddy Piper to Dave Bautista and John Cena. Then of course there's The Rock, who produces and appears as himself in...
Lady Macbeth – Review Rachel Brook April 29, 2017 Reviews Lady Macbeth is period drama without the hard edges filed off; its plot lives in the spaces of illegitimacy, upstairs-downstairs romance, and single-minded ambition that are usually denied or shamed in more...