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The grumpy old(er) man comedy is a great tradition. See Alexander Payne’s About Schmidt, or the forthcoming A Man Called Ove for examples of hilarious cantankerousness ultimately giving way to a heartwarming...

After the success of Ain’t Them Bodies Saints (2013), David Lowery reunites Casey Affleck and Rooney Mara in a time-travelling, existential yarn about the dislocation of grief. Questioning why we become...

In her fourth feature Marianna Palka (known for Good Dick) absurdly illustrates how, by just being in relation to her adulterous husband, society will inevitably judge the behaviour of the woman scorned as...

Crown Heights is the kind of film you don’t always enjoy, but are glad to have seen afterwards. Writer-director Matt Ruskin doesn’t quite do justice to the affecting true life story; the screenplay feels...

Ranging from gently witty to laugh-out-loud funny, The Big Sick is a vibrant comedy-drama which always engages despite broadly conventional structure and lack of stylisation. What it lacks in style, it makes...

A promising premise – a surprise intervention for a failing marriage – is wasted in this patchy relationship comedy from writer, director and star, Clea DuVall. She gets strong individual performances...

https://vimeo.com/90733535 Password: russian At ORWAV we’re no strangers to the bizarre but brilliant works of rising short film director Ben Aston, and Sundance London winner Russian Roulette –...

The Case Against 8 is a never-more-than-ordinary documentary about a never-less-than-extraordinary series of events. Needless, theatricality proves to be its main undoing. In one scene, Ted Olson reads back...

Sara Colangelo's feature debut, Little Accidents, dolefully addresses the personal ramifications of widespread public trauma. Taking place in the small-town setting of Park City, Colangelo...

The Voices is a unique blend of (like as not) mutually-exclusive soundtracks, aesthetics, and genre tropes that curiously coalesce into a surprisingly digestible black romcom. Directed by...

Academy Award winner Alex Gibney's latest non-fiction piece closely documents the life and music of Nigerian political activist, and Afrobeat creator, Fela Anikulapo Kuti. Due to Fela's unfortunate death in...

David Cross' Hits deftly challenges the prevalence of celebrity culture within modern society through carefully mapped characters and remarkably affectionate satire. Despite formally adopting the...

The dusty world of fossil digs might seem boring, but Dinosaur 13 is a documentary that gives heart to those weathered bones. You’re drawn in by the passion and excitement of Pete Larson & co. as they...

David Wain's They Came Together brings with it clear, absurd, and intensely welcome influences from his previous work on Children's Hospital, which correspondingly drives a surprisingly...

Have you ever been to one of those stand-up gigs where the comedian succeeds through sheer force of personality? That’s Obvious Child, and its lead, Jenny Slate. The story is insubstantial and the humour...