ORWAV’s Top 20 Films of 2018: #3 – You Were Never Really Here Jack Blackwell December 29, 2018 Analysis, Features, Top 10 What really separated You Were Never Really Here from other thrillers in 2018 – more so, even, than its impressionistic style and sparse dialogue – was its complete lack of hero. Lynne Ramsay’s fourth...
ORWAV’s Top 20 Films of 2018: #9 – First Reformed Calum Baker December 23, 2018 Analysis, Features, Top 10 The long shadow cast by Paul Schrader has given us the best, and the most dreary and insulting, of modern cinema. As a writer, his neuroses combined with his deep understanding of film noir helped create a...
The King of Comedy – Martin Scorsese’s Black Sheep Rhys Handley November 24, 2017 Analysis, Features, One Off When Martin Scorsese was on a streak with his muse Robert De Niro in the 1970s and 1980s, they gave us characters who would leap from the screen in a flurry of violence and rage. Paragons of toxic, unimpeded...
Scene Stealers: Martin Scorsese in Taxi Driver Patrick Nabarro November 18, 2017 Analysis, Features, Scene Stealers Yesterday marked Martin Scorsese’s 75th birthday, and to mark the great man reaching three-quarters of a century, what better way to celebrate his enduring contribution to cinema than by recalling one of the...
Martin Scorsese and the Fragility Of Masculinity Thom Denson December 27, 2016 Analysis, Close-Up, Features Men are weak-minded, egocentric and, for the most part, doomed to fail. For the past four decades of his career, Martin Scorsese has mined his way through the male psyche, warts and all. To some, he may be...
The ORWAV Playlist – February 2016 Calum Baker February 4, 2016 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...
A Beginner’s Guide To… Robert De Niro Eddie Falvey October 2, 2015 A Beginner's Guide To..., Analysis, Features It is fair to say that Robert De Niro is an acting institution; so great is he in some of his performances that one would not hesitate to place him among the best actors of his generation, and even of all...
A Beginner’s Guide To… Martin Scorsese Chris Davies January 17, 2014 A Beginner's Guide To..., Analysis, Features 2 Comments Acclaimed American director Martin Scorsese is perhaps best known for his crime dramas, including Taxi Driver, Goodfellas and the Oscar-winning The Departed, but over a forty year career he has...
