Triple Frontier – Review Carmen Paddock March 17, 2019 Reviews After an extraordinarily troubled pre-production and subsequent Netflix distribution, Triple Frontier may have been best left in the drawer. The action thriller follows five ex-special forces friends who...
Short of the Month: Long Way Back Home Carmen Paddock September 3, 2018 Features, Independent, Short of the Week https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pD3-XG2Z4Pg Talented siblings Jeff Nichols (director of Mud, Midnight Special, and Loving) and Ben Nichols (lead guitarist for the ‘country-punk rock’ band Lucero)...
Mudbound – LFF 2017 Review Tori Brazier October 6, 2017 Reviews Mudbound aims to tell an epic tale of racial tension in the 1940s Mississippi Delta, and it is an engaging – if emotionally battering – one. The film struggles, however, not to sink under its own weight....
ORWAV’s Top 20 of 2014: 2. Inside Llewyn Davis Stephen O'Nion December 29, 2014 Analysis, Features, Top 10 1 Comment "If it was never new and it doesn't gets old then it's a folk song." Starting with the music would probably be logical. Reuniting the Coens with producer T-Bone Burnett some fourteen years after O...
Unbroken – Review Rachel Brook December 27, 2014 Reviews A faultlessly modulated performance from O’Connell holds together a film of imbalanced fragments. Lifeless dramatisation of Zamperini’s childhood suffers in comparison to better realised scenes of his...
Inside Llewyn Davis – Review Chris Davies December 9, 2013 Reviews 1 Comment Following their remake of True Grit, auteur siblings Joel and Ethan Coen have found further inspiration from the 1960s with Inside Llewyn Davis. A perfect companion piece to A Serious Man, the Coens'...