The Meg – Review Thom Denson August 10, 2018 Reviews Through the annals of time there have been tales of man pitting himself against monster, with fictional clashes of monolithic proportions rife throughout history. Hercules against the Hydra and David versus...
What I Learned Watching Jaws For The First Time Bertie Archer August 8, 2018 Analysis, Features, One Off There comes a time in every film fan’s life when they have to admit that they haven’t seen one of the universally acclaimed must-see movies, to confess and make amends for a sin of omission. While there...
The Top 10 Movie Animals Jack Blackwell March 27, 2018 Analysis, Features, Top 10 Whether they’re cute or scary, talkative or mute, animals always hold a particular power in cinema – there are even sites dedicated specifically to telling you whether or not any pets get hurt in any given...
What Are the Best Blockbusters of All Time? 10-1 Eddie Falvey July 21, 2017 Analysis, Features, Top 10 Only 10 remain of the 50 greatest blockbusters ever made. Tensions are high, you can feel the hum of excitement in the air as faint gasps cut the silence. Elsewhere, chairs yawn with the sound of bottoms...
The Shallows – Review David Brake August 11, 2016 Reviews With Suicide Squad currently disappointing audiences worldwide, there is an unspoken desperation for something invigorating that will shake us from this summer's ho-hum selection. A film that earns our...
A Love Letter To… The Last Picture Show Calum Baker June 30, 2015 Features, Love Letter, Nostalgia Peter Bogdanovich's breakthrough third feature is still one of the greatest in American cinema, not least for how unexpected it was - and still is. The director came out of film criticism and venerated...
A Love Letter to… Jaws (40th Anniversary Edition) Eddie Falvey June 18, 2015 Features, Love Letter, Nostalgia Did Steven Spielberg ever make a more important film than Jaws? Whether or not he has made a greater film is open to (a no doubt heated) debate, but what remains is the fact that cinema would look quite...
The ORWAV Playlist – June 2015 Calum Baker June 2, 2015 Behind The Curtain, Features, Music of the Movies Every four weeks, ORWAV explores the movie month ahead through the medium of song! Upcoming releases, notable births and anniversaries and a general celebration of the films, directors, technicians and...
A Beginner’s Guide To New Hollywood Eddie Falvey October 30, 2014 A Beginner's Guide To..., Analysis, Features 1 Comment New Hollywood isn’t actually that new at all; in fact, the name demarcates a period of intense creativity, crisis, and change that occurred between the late 1960s and the early 1980s within the Hollywood...
Ten Degrees of Trivia: Maleficent Tom Bond June 11, 2014 Features, Nostalgia, Ten Degrees of Trivia Love trivia? Love six degrees of Kevin Bacon? Then you’ve come to the right place. Ten Degrees of Trivia combines the two to take you on a journey through the world of loosely connected facts, beginning and...
A Beginner’s Guide To… Steven Spielberg Chris Davies January 24, 2014 A Beginner's Guide To..., Analysis, Features 3 Comments A household name, Steven Spielberg is perhaps the most well-known and beloved filmmaker in the history of film with works such as Raiders of the Lost Ark, Jaws, E.T: The Extra-Terrestrial, Saving Private Ryan,...
50 Slices of Movie Trivia You May Not Know David Brake May 8, 2013 Features, Nostalgia, Ten Degrees of Trivia 23 Comments 1. Alfred Hitchcock's Psycho was the first film to ever show a toilet flush. 2. After Jaws, Spielberg tried to hang around the movie set for Alfred Hitchcock's 1976 film Family Plot in the hope of...