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Millennials don't have it easy. From finding the ideal life partner, carving out the perfect career, buying a property and just generally, y'know, figuring out what it all means, there's a lot to consider....

You've no doubt heard the old Italian joke (well, the joke quoted in Watchmen at least) about the depressed man who, passing through a small town, decides enough is enough and he needs help. "Dottore," he...

A Dog’s Purpose tells the story of Toby, a dog with the voice of the snowman from Frozen, who dies and is reincarnated four times in an attempt to reunite with his master. That’s pretty impressive loyalty,...

History is Hollywood's best friend of late. It represents a reliable, endless supply of stories that can add innate credibility to marketing materials, and can be transformed into soaring, emotional...

Despite all of the numerous terrible things that have happened, 2016 has at least given us some truly original films. We’ve seen such leftfield ideas as a punk rock siege led by neo-Nazi Captain Picard,...

The idea of visitors from other worlds is one of the oldest in all of science fiction, but Denis Villeneuve's new film Arrival is one of the very few that poses a genuinely thorny problem: how would we...

In the upcoming Nine Lives (out on 17 August), Kevin Spacey plays a man turned into a cat. It's an odd career choice given the huge star-power injection Spacey has recently received thanks to Netflix’s House...

“What happens to me if I fail your test?” What indeed. The year’s most interesting film? You’d be hard pressed to find a rival with the same scientific clout as this, Alex Garland’s directorial...

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...

"If I came to you like this during the military dictatorship - what would you have done to me?" "You can't imagine what would have happened." I'll start by pointing out something fortuitous: the focus of...

Back in the mid noughties, Amy Winehouse was more than just a name. Through a meteoric rise to fame, followed by a descent into drugs, she became the punchline to your jokes. A shorthand description of someone...

There are plenty of classic films about dancing, from The Red Shoes to Black Swan, but there are also plenty more where the characters slip in a two-step or a spot of dirty dancing out of the blue. Man Up is...

The release of Force Majeure sees a welcome return to that most reliable of film genres – the natural disaster movie. This got us thinking about the "classics" of this peculiar cinematic niche. Not many of...

Here at ORWAV we’re not going to bore you with a Best Films of 2014 round-up just because we’re halfway through the year. Instead, our writers are here to offer something different, with the specific...

As 2013 draws to a close, it’s time to reel off One Room With A View’s Top Ten Films of 2013. Each writer will list their top ten and we’ll reach an ultimate list at the end. To achieve this, we’ll be...