Top 20 Films of 2015: 10. Amy Sian Brett December 23, 2015 Analysis, Features, Top 10 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...
ORWAV’s Top 20 of 2014: 4. Under the Skin Danielle Davenport December 27, 2014 Analysis, Features, Top 10 3 Comments “You don’t want to wake up, do you?” The response to Under the Skin is visceral. Jonathan Glazer’s visually spectacular and profoundly unsettling masterpiece is a film that has polarised critics...
ORWAV’s Top 20 Of 2014: 5. The Wolf Of Wall Street Tom Bond December 26, 2014 Analysis, Features, Top 10 2 Comments Do you want to be Jordan Belfort? Do you want what he has? The money, the drugs, the women, the power? You’re not alone. You’re only human. Debates raged with the manic energy of coked-up stockbrokers...
ORWAV’s Top 20 of 2014: 7. Interstellar Bertie Archer December 23, 2014 Analysis, Features, Top 10 2 Comments Ten, nine, eight, seven... Every year has its fill of "must see" films, with dramatic classics and bash-'em-up blockbusters vying for our attention and our money. One Room With A View's Top 20 Films of 2014...
ORWAV’s Top 20 of 2014: 9. Her Cameron Ward December 21, 2014 Analysis, Features, Top 10 7 Comments “Dear Catherine, I've been sitting here thinking about all the things I wanted to apologise to you for." Theodore Twombly (Joaquin Phoenix)'s closing missive is a love letter to lives once lived, the final...
ORWAV’s Top 20 of 2014: 10. Gone Girl David Brake December 20, 2014 Analysis, Features, Top 10 9 Comments “What are you thinking? How are you feeling? What have we done to each other? What will we do?” From the opening line, Gone Girl opens its stall to become a fascinating vivisection of marriage, a...
One Room With A View’s Top 20 Films of 2014: 20-11 David Brake December 19, 2014 Analysis, Features, Top 10 3 Comments So here we go. Based on UK release dates, the team at One Room With A View have voted, and we can now reveal our Top 20 Films of 2014. What a great year of film it has been. X-Men: Days of Future Past...