Unintentional Horror in Midsommar and The Dead Don’t Die Ben Flanagan July 16, 2019 Analysis, Features, Opinion Something odd is happening with horror movies this summer. Chucky just ate itself with the Child’s Play reboot, which wipes out the gore but doubles down on references for the Stranger Things audience....
The Dead Don’t Die – Edinburgh Film Festival Review Carmen Paddock June 24, 2019 Reviews There is always that friend at parties who tells the same joke on repeat – one which delights them more than the listeners and gets endlessly rephrased with diminishing returns. This is the personification...
Top 20 Films of 2016: 7. Paterson Calum Baker December 24, 2016 Analysis, Features, Top 10 Paterson lies in the valley under the Passaic Falls its spent waters forming the outline of his back. - William Carlos Williams, 'Paterson', 1926. In his first film, 1980's Permanent Vacation, Jim...
Paterson – Cannes 2016 Review Nick Evan-Cook November 26, 2016 Reviews Warm, heartfelt, and unpretentious, Jim Jarmusch's latest is an absolute delight. Paterson (Adam Driver, dependably excellent as a gentle bus driver/poet with great depth) and Laura (Golshifteh...
Ghost Dog and Jim Jarmusch’s Weird Outsiders Kambole Campbell November 25, 2016 Analysis, Close-Up, Features Mixing hip-hop flair with the samurai ethos, arthouse cool with wild action sequences, and Forest Whitaker with a bunch of birds, Jim Jarmusch's Ghost Dog: The Way of the Samurai couldn’t be a stranger,...
Adam Driver: From Soldier to Sith Lord Ellena Zellhuber-McMillan November 24, 2016 Analysis, Features, Spotlight Adam Driver is an actor we just keep seeing more of. Ever since his breakout role in Lena Dunham’s Girls, Driver has quietly been gracing our screens in many different roles, culminating in his blockbuster...
Top 10 Most Exciting Cannes Competition Films 2016 Calum Baker May 11, 2016 Analysis, Features, Top 10 Regular ORWAV readers will know how much we love the Cannes Film Festival. We're even returning this year, to cover even more exciting ground than 2015 - and 2015 was pretty exciting. Dheepan won the Palme...
Only Lovers Left Alive – LFF Review Chris Davies November 28, 2013 Reviews 1 Comment Jim Jarmusch is a wonderfully original filmmaker, but in a market saturated with vampire love stories like Twilight and True Blood, does Only Lovers Left Alive offer anything new? Sadly, it never quite...