The Batman – Review Christopher Preston February 28, 2022 Reviews The Batman proves Warner Bros’ third law: for every divisive reboot of the Caped Crusader, there is an oppositional masterpiece waiting to be made. Scaling down beautifully from the silly operatics of the...
ORWAV’s Top 20 Films of 2020: #5 – The Lighthouse Louise Burrell December 29, 2020 Analysis, Features, Top 10 Mermaids, one-eyed seagulls, and glimpses of sea monsters; Robert Eggers’ The Lighthouse is anything but a mainstream horror. This undeniably weird film landed in the UK in the “normal” part of 2020,...
Tenet – Review Rob Salusbury August 24, 2020 Reviews If there’s one thing Christopher Nolan loves, it's spectacle. And chaos. And headaches. Okay, so there are several things that Nolan is passionate about, and they’re all very much present in Tenet....
The Lighthouse – Review Jack Blackwell February 1, 2020 Reviews At its best, cinema can approach being indescribable. ‘F.W. Murnau directs an episode of It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia’ doesn’t make any kind of coherent sense on paper, nor is it something you can...
The King – Venice 2019 Review Tom Bond September 4, 2019 Reviews Defeat the French at Agincourt? In that body? From his opening scenes as a spoilt emo princeling, whoring his way around Eastcheap, it’s hard to buy the French-American Timothée Chalamet as the legendary...
High Life – Review Chris Edwards May 10, 2019 Reviews Travelling at 99% of the speed of light, Clare Denis’s latest feature High Life sees Robert Pattinson’s Monte attempt to raise a baby daughter in deep space. Focusing on three distinct periods in Monte’s...
The Amazing Spider-Man’s Failure was the Best Thing to Happen to Andrew Garfield Jack Blackwell March 13, 2019 Analysis, Features, Opinion Andrew Garfield was too handsome to be a superhero. This has never been a problem for any actor in the history of Hollywood, but it ended up being one of several factors that doomed the short-lived Amazing...
Damsel – Berlinale 2018 Review Joni Blyth February 16, 2018 Reviews 1 Comment Movies don’t have to mimic their settings. Space is pretty desolate, but most films featuring the final frontier don’t waste half their running time slowly inching through the black. When it comes to...
How Good Time Gives Us A Taste Of The Real New York Stephanie Watts November 21, 2017 Analysis, Features, Opinion Josh and Benny Safdie's latest and largest production, Good Time, is a dive head first into the gritty underbelly of New York, following a criminal on one night as he attempts to scrape together the money to...
Good Time – Review Tom Bond November 16, 2017 Reviews Not a jump down the rabbit hole as much as a squeeze through the other end of the telescope, Good Time is when the bass drops at 3am and you can’t remember your own name. Josh and Benny Safdie use every...
From Heart Throb to Indie Darling: The Evolution of Robert Pattinson Naomi Soanes November 14, 2017 Analysis, Features, Spotlight It’s been a long time now since Robert Pattinson was able to enjoy complete anonymity. From the moment Pattinson landed the much-coveted role of Edward Cullen in the Twilight series, he has been unable to...
COMPETITION – Win The Childhood of a Leader on DVD! David Brake January 23, 2017 Competitions Thanks to the really, really, really nice people at Soda Pictures, we've got THREE copies of The Childhood of a Leader to give away on DVD! Honestly, you'll want in. The score alone is a dream! Here's the...
The Childhood of a Leader – EIFF 2016 Review Rachel Brook June 29, 2016 Reviews Brady Corbet’s first film as director has several excellent and even jaw-dropping elements, but the glacial pace does try viewers' patience. Explicit division into three acts using title cards does nothing...
The Citizen Kane of Awful – Twilight Rachel Brook July 17, 2015 Features, Nostalgia, The Citizen Kane of Awful 1 Comment Now that a few years have passed since the Twilight phenomenon was at its peak, perhaps it’s possible to give the film adaptations a second chance, with the benefit of distanced objectivity. At least...
Top 10 Vampire Movies Conor Morgan May 20, 2015 Analysis, Features, Top 10 With the release of the fantastic Iranian vampire film A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night finally coming to the UK on May 22nd, it’s high time we took a look at ten of the best vampire films for you to sink...