Why are Filmmakers Falling for Monochrome? Rob Salusbury July 22, 2020 Analysis, Features, Opinion It may feel like a lifetime ago now but it was only back in February when Jane Fonda opened that golden envelope and sent the film world into rapture. The cinematic sensation of 2019, Parasite became the...
Best Buys For the Best Films of the 2010s Tom Bond March 24, 2020 Shop With the 2010s in the rearview mirror we took the chance to look back at our favourite films of the decade and rank them. You can see where we ended up here, and I hope you'll agree it's a great...
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...
Top 10 Movie Car Chases Patrick Taylor July 8, 2016 Analysis, Features, Top 10 After three years, Nicolas Winding Refn is back this week with the latest in his brand of visually striking and unsettling cinema. To mark his return, we've been reflecting on Drive, the film that brought...
Your Week In Film: Miles, Minecraft, More Independence Day, and More Mad Max… Stephen O'Nion July 1, 2016 News 1. Class is in session for The Academy, looks rather more diverse The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences has finished licking envelopes and applying novelty stamps to the latest batch of invitations...
Nicholas Hoult: From Supporting Boy to Leading Man? Ellena Zellhuber-McMillan April 20, 2016 Analysis, Features, Spotlight Though it’s been 14 years since About a Boy, for some of us Nicholas Hoult will forever be sweet and strange Marcus Brewer. Though not quite Hoult’s first film role (he was a supporting actor in 1996’s...
ORWAV Oscars 2016 – The Results Tom Bond February 29, 2016 Analysis, Features, One Off It's the moment every film fan has been waiting for...the results of the ORWAV Oscars! Will our shock front-runner Ex Machina sweep the board? Will Leo pick up his first ORWAV Oscar to sit on his mantelpiece...
The 2016 Stunt Oscars Hugh Blackstaffe February 25, 2016 12 Rounds, Behind The Curtain, Features The stunt industry, specifically stunt professionals, are criminally overlooked by the Oscars. In an effort to draw much-needed attention to this underrepresented yet essential arm of filmmaking, ORWAV is...
ORWAV Oscars 2016 – The Nominations Tom Bond February 23, 2016 Analysis, Features, One Off As the 2016 awards season rumbles to a close, here at ORWAV we felt it was about time someone crashed the party. With the #OscarsSoWhite once more, and some big names like Todd Haynes and Quentin...
2016 Oscar Nominations: Did They Get It Right? Patrick Taylor January 14, 2016 Analysis, Debate, Features So, the Academy Awards are upon us once more and this year's band of intrepid nominees have been released into the wild to vie for golden-statue-glory on 22nd February. We've assembled a crack team of our own...
2015: The Year The Bubble Began To Burst? Eddie Falvey November 12, 2015 Analysis, Features, Opinion Ever since Jaws exploded into the popular consciousness in the summer of 1975 the world has been at the mercy of blockbuster film franchises. Usually (but not always) building upon highly successful source...
Top 10 Movie Moments of 2015… So Far Tom Bond July 8, 2015 Analysis, Features, Top 10 Halfway through this glorious year of film that we call 2015, we’ve decided to take stock and write about our favourite movie moments so far. We’ll save worrying about the best films of the year until...
I’ll Be Back: Are Sequels Always Worth The Wait? Phil W. Bayles June 12, 2015 Analysis, Features, Opinion This year has brought with it a huge number of (incredibly) long-awaited sequels. We've just witnessed the reopening of Isla Nubar in Jurassic World, next month we'll go back in time for Terminator...
Mad Max: Fury Road – Review Tom Bond May 14, 2015 Reviews There aren't enough expletives or adjectives to express quite how much you need to see Fury Road. Its brutal war-torn world, built on the liquid viscera of blood, milk and oil, is a dystopia; but the future...