Crimes of the Future – Cannes Film Festival 2022 Review Alysha Prasad June 2, 2022 Reviews Film auteur David Cronenberg is back at last with his newest sexy body horror, Crimes of the Future, which was arguably the most anticipated film premiering at the Cannes Film Festival this year. Along with...
ORWAV’s Top 20 Films of 2021: #9 – Spencer Calum Baker December 30, 2021 Analysis, Features In its interminable wardrobing, lavish setting and populist pro-Princess pitch, Spencer would seem to perfectly embody what Christopher Hitchens once labelled the “kitsch iconography” that surrounds its...
Spencer – Review Tom Bond November 4, 2021 Reviews This film was previously reviewed in September 2021 as part of our Venice Film Festival coverage. Pablo Larraín’s Princess Diana biopic, Spencer, gets about as far away from a cradle-to-grave template as...
Charlie’s Angels – Review Carmen Paddock November 28, 2019 Reviews A pop feminist, blingy advert for girl power could have been a fun, if fluffy, night at the cinema, but unfortunately the new Charlie’s Angels is let down by a script that neither serves the predictable plot...
Seberg – Venice 2019 Review Jack King August 31, 2019 Reviews What is it, exactly, with all of this late-‘60s revivalism? Have the eighties played out already? Perhaps it’s a nostalgic symptom of turning into the next terrifyingly unsure decade – has America been...
JT LeRoy – Review Rachel Brook April 5, 2019 Reviews This review was originally published as part of our BFI Flare coverage on 05/04/2019. There’s no denying that the scandal and secrecy of writer JT LeRoy make for a fascinating story. In this retelling, it...
Lizzie – Review Jack Blackwell December 16, 2018 Reviews This review was originally published as part of our London Film Festival coverage on 03/10/2018. Lizzie wastes no time laying out its theories as to who committed the 1892 Borden murders, a grisly double...
Kristen Stewart’s Steady Path to Grown-Up Success Rhys Handley December 13, 2018 Analysis, Features, Spotlight Kristen Stewart knows better than most that growing up as a young actor means having a spotlight on your every move – personal and professional. It blighted the Harry Potter kids, whose turbulent journey to...
Lizzie – LFF 2018 Review Jack Blackwell October 3, 2018 Reviews Lizzie wastes no time laying out its theories as to who committed the 1892 Borden murders, a grisly double homicide by hatchet for which no one was ever found guilty. Opening on the immediate aftermath of the...
ORWAV’s Unlikely Picks for the 2018 Oscars Tom Bond January 22, 2018 Analysis, Features, Top 10 Every year your favourite films are robbed (robbed, you hear me!) of the little gold statues they deserve. And we all know why. Despite the bold changes begun in the wake of #OscarsSoWhite, the Academy...
Your Week In Film: Bob’s Burgers, Charlie’s Angels and more! Stephen O'Nion October 6, 2017 News 1. Sony’s MIB sequel is back, remember that Proving that no Flatliners, Ghostbusters or Robocop flop is gonna keep them down, Sony are pressing forward with another of their patented reboots. According to...
Personal Shopper – Review Nick Evan-Cook March 16, 2017 Reviews Best described as "divisive" at its Cannes premiere, Olivier Assayas and Kristen Stewart's brave and uncategorisable second collaboration Personal Shopper swings fearlessly for the fences and only narrowly...
Kelly Reichardt’s Uncertain Roads Calum Baker March 3, 2017 Analysis, Close-Up, Features Vignettes are nothing new in independent cinema. One of America's unsung treasures, Kelly Reichardt, recently made her own contribution to the subgenre with Certain Women, a film composed of three...
Certain Women – Review Rachel Brook March 3, 2017 Reviews If Alice Munro made films, you’d pray they’d look like this. Kelly Reichardt’s adaptation of short stories by Montana native Maile Meloy has a staggeringly subtle touch, and is an experience more...
Café Society – Review Calum Baker September 3, 2016 Reviews Early on in Café Society, Woody Allen’s 47th film, Jesse Eisenberg’s character meekly hires a prostitute. It’s his first such transaction, and he’s edgy. When she finally arrives, he’s gone off the...