Honey Boy – LFF 2019 Review Carmen Paddock October 12, 2019 Reviews The fictionalised cinematic memoir is an inherently self-indulgent genre, yet actor-turned-writer Shia LaBeouf and director Alma Har’el use this intense introspection to capture the interpersonal and...
Mid90s – Review Rhys Handley February 11, 2019 Reviews This review was originally published as part of our Berlinale festival coverage on 11/02/2019. Paraphernalia preoccupies the hearts of the kids of Mid90s, who shed blood and break bones over logo-emblazoned...
Boy Erased – Review Rhys Handley February 7, 2019 Reviews In Deep Impact/Armageddon tradition, Joel Edgerton’s sophomore directing effort is the second film about young people subjected to gay conversion therapy released in a matter of months. As such, Boy Erased...
ORWAV’s Top 20 Films of 2018: #7 – Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri Tori Brazier December 27, 2018 Analysis, Features, Top 10 A lot has happened since Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri streaked onto cinema screens in early January. A bachelor brought his girlfriend home to meet a bunch of crazy rich Asians in Singapore...
Lady Bird – Review Jack Blackwell February 16, 2018 Reviews This film was previously reviewed on 15/10/17 as part of London Film Festival. Though Greta Gerwig has had plentiful scripting experience to complement her always exciting acting career, Lady Bird marks...
Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri – Review Jack Blackwell January 7, 2018 Reviews A sensationally funny and affecting dark comedy, Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri arrived at Venice just as the festival was hitting a slump, and reinvigorated it with a fiery passion. Martin...
Lady Bird – LFF 2017 Review Jack Blackwell October 15, 2017 Reviews Though Greta Gerwig has had plentiful scripting experience to complement her always exciting acting career, Lady Bird marks her debut in the world of directing (and writing alone). We’re very pleased to...
Manchester By The Sea – Review Tom Bond January 14, 2017 Reviews Casey Affleck is Lee, the quiet, unassuming face of Manchester by the Sea. Working as a janitor in snow-crusted Boston he busies himself in the background of other people’s lives. He does his work, he goes...
Manchester by the Sea – LFF 2016 Review Tom Bond October 9, 2016 Reviews Casey Affleck is Lee, the quiet, unassuming face of Manchester by the Sea. Working as a janitor in snow-crusted Boston he busies himself in the background of other people’s lives. He does his work, he goes...
The Zero Theorem – Review Tom Bond March 15, 2014 Reviews 1 Comment The Zero Theorem is unmistakably a Terry Gilliam film, for better or worse. He has created a deliciously chaotic dystopia, saturated with colour and adverts, but his ramshackle directing threatens to disengage...