The Last Duel – Review Anahit Behrooz October 15, 2021 Reviews This film was previously reviewed in September 2021 as part of our Venice Film Festival coverage. The Last Duel, Ridley Scott’s latest men-with-swords epic, is a medieval courtly tale for the #MeToo...
The Coen Brothers, Charles Portis, and True Grit Rory Steabler December 21, 2020 Features, Love Letter, Nostalgia Ten years on from its release, True Grit has settled firmly into the middle ground of Joel and Ethan Coen’s filmography. It's well-respected in the Coen canon but doesn’t seem to be many people’s...
Le Mans ‘66 – LFF 2019 Review Rory Steabler October 10, 2019 Reviews It’s hard to think of a better recent example of dad-approved lazy-afternoon viewing than James Mangold’s Le Mans ‘66. Its combination of old-fashioned motorsports, tough-guy heroes, and loving...
Downsizing – Review Jack Blackwell January 14, 2018 Reviews This film was previously reviewed on 30/08/17 as part of Venice Film Festival. Alexander Payne returns with a strange, ambitious, and often pummellingly downbeat story. After Norwegian scientists make the...
Your Week In Film: Tombs, Terminators, Taika Waititi Stephen O'Nion September 22, 2017 News 1. Mother! Bombs! Things didn’t look super swell for Mother! when it got booed at Venice Film Festival. They looked worse when it got an F rating from Cinemascore, an organisation that polls moviegoers...
Suburbicon – Venice 2017 Review Jack Blackwell September 3, 2017 Reviews With mystery films, it’s often said that trailers should be avoided, and that going in blind is the best way to watch them. Suburbicon is an exception to this rule, as the final product bears very little...
Downsizing – Venice 2017 Review Jack Blackwell August 30, 2017 Reviews Alexander Payne kicks off the 2017 Venice Film Festival with a strange, ambitious, and often pummellingly downbeat story. After Norwegian scientists make the miraculous breakthrough of cellular miniaturisation...
The 2017 Stunt Oscars Hugh Blackstaffe February 27, 2017 12 Rounds, Behind The Curtain, Features For the second year, ORWAV is proud to reveal the winners of our own 2017 Stunt Oscars, where we highlight some of the best and most spectacular stunts and stunt performers from the last 12 months. As the...
The Great Wall – Review Kambole Campbell February 18, 2017 Reviews Zhang Yimou’s first Hollywood feature feels like it was doomed to mediocrity from the start. Despite the credentials (this is the director of Hero, after all), the film appeared to offer up Hollywood’s...
The Evolution of Jason Bourne’s Fight Scenes Hugh Blackstaffe August 4, 2016 12 Rounds, Behind The Curtain, Features Matt Damon's portrayal of the amnesiac American assassin, Jason Bourne, redefined the world of silver screen espionage. It caused the flagging Bond franchise to rethink its approach and was the instigator of a...
Jason Bourne – Review Hugh Blackstaffe July 29, 2016 Reviews Matt Damon is Bourne again. From the swell of the understated music that's underpinned the series to date, we know that we are firmly in Jason's world. However, it is a more chaotic, even murkier world than...
The Citizen Kane of Awful: The Bourne Legacy Bertie Archer July 28, 2016 Features, Nostalgia, The Citizen Kane of Awful Cast: Jeremy Renner, Rachel Weisz, Edward Norton Director: Tony Gilroy Writers: Tony Gilroy, Dan Gilroy Estimated Budget: $125 million US Gross: $113 million “There was never just one”, the...
Bourne, Bush and Snowden: Turning Politics Personal in the Jason Bourne Franchise David Brake July 27, 2016 Analysis, Close-Up, Features Let it never be said that you can't track a nation's attitude by its cinema. Whether by proliferation or absence, topics are either brought to attention, or trigger groundswell when they're not...
Your Week In Film: Pokémon monsters, Universal monsters, Alien monsters, A Monster Calls, and more! Stephen O'Nion July 15, 2016 News 1. Pokémon Go is go What the hell is Pokémon Go you ask? A social and technological phenomenon, Pokémon Go is a location-based augmented reality game based upon the Pokémon universe (yes, that's...
Top 20 Films of 2015: 8. The Martian Daniel Orton December 24, 2015 Analysis, Features, Top 10 If you aren’t a fan of having sex in public places then seeing The Martian was probably the most fun you could have had in a cinema in 2015. The Martian is the story of the eponymous Mark Watney (Matt...