Your Week In Film: Doug, Depp, Dafne, De Niro, and Dodge! Stephen O'Nion May 12, 2017 News 1. Doug Liman will live, die, repeat his mistake Did you watch All You Need is Kill? Maybe you knew it as Edge of Tomorrow when it was in cinemas? Or have you seen it since as Live Die Repeat? Whatever you...
Your Week In Film’s Halloween Special: Santa, Shawn Levy, Split and more! Stephen O'Nion October 28, 2016 News 1. Let’s start with something Incredible The one Pixar sequel that people have actually asked for is coming, and sooner than you thought. Yes, everyone’s favourite superpowered family will return in the...
Short of the Week – Borrowed Time David Brake October 24, 2016 Features, Independent, Short of the Week https://vimeo.com/187257744 Perhaps there should be no real surprise in a Pixar animator’s penchant for twanging heartstrings with a perfectly placed pixel or two. Toys holding hands in a last...
Your Week in Film: Sulu, Sequels, Soderbergh and Spies Eddie Falvey July 8, 2016 News 1. Hikaru Sulu is gay, George Takei is not (in a happy sense) What with it being set in the 23rd century fer chrissakes, it makes sense for Star Trek Beyond to feature at least one gay character - which is...
Top 20 Films of 2015: 4. Inside Out Phil W. Bayles December 28, 2015 Analysis, Features, Top 10 If Pixar films have taught us one thing, it's that everything we love will one day come to an end. We will forget our childhood toys. Our loved ones will die and leave us alone in the world. Eventually, we all...
The Good Dinosaur – Review Tom Bond November 28, 2015 Reviews It’s impossible to rave enough about the elemental beauty of The Good Dinosaur. In its sunlight-speckled vistas it recalls Lord of the Rings; in its swaying fields, Malick; and in its rain-soaked grit,...
20 Years of Toy Story – A Love Letter Nick Evan-Cook November 18, 2015 Features, Love Letter, Nostalgia What would you guess, critically speaking (insofar as these things can be quantified), is considered the best-received film trilogy of all time? Indiana Jones? Diminishing returns and the fact that the...
Music of the Movies: Pixar Calum Baker July 28, 2015 Behind The Curtain, Features, Music of the Movies Over 21 years and 15 feature films, Pixar have taken us from small bedrooms to big cities, from Toy Barns to the depths of the ocean, deepest forests to outer space - and now, fantastically, inside the mind of...
A Beginner’s Guide To… Pixar Eddie Falvey July 24, 2015 A Beginner's Guide To..., Analysis, Features Pixar’s return with this summer’s critical darling Inside Out marks the end of a hiatus of sorts for the studio. It has been two years since Pixar released Monsters University, the moderately well-received...
Inside Out – Review Cameron Ward July 23, 2015 Reviews Little needs to be said about Inside Out; it’s more of the same from Pixar, and the same is very good. Pixar’s noted ability for creative reasoning and progressive maturity finds itself this time telling...
Top 10 Animated Characters Cathy Brennan July 21, 2015 Analysis, Features, Top 10 1 Comment Pixar's latest film Inside Out is making waves with both critics and audiences this summer. Animated films have consistently been popular at the box office for the last few years, and it's not that surprising....
The ORWAV Playlist – July 2015 Calum Baker July 2, 2015 Behind The Curtain, Features, Music of the Movies Every four weeks, ORWAV explores the movie month ahead through the medium of song! Upcoming releases, notable births and anniversaries and a general celebration of the films, directors, technicians and...
Spotlight: Brad Bird Nick Evan-Cook May 21, 2015 Analysis, Features, Spotlight Brad Bird’s wide-ranging career so far is most remarkable for two reasons. The first, and most obvious, is that despite only having directed four feature films (and only one of these live-action), he has...
CEL Mates: 2015 Oscar-Nominated Animated Shorts Nick Evan-Cook February 22, 2015 CEL Mates, Features, Independent If there's one thing that unifies this year's stellar crop of Oscar-nominated animated shorts, it's that each one is wildly different to the others. Hailing from all around the world, dealing with a...
Toy Story 4: A Sequel Too Far? Patrick Taylor November 9, 2014 Analysis, Features, Opinion The announcement by Pixar that a fourth instalment of the Toy Story franchise will be released in 2017 has been met with what can only be described as a mixed response. Before we get into the details of the...