Debate: What’s the Best Pixar Film? Tom Bond January 17, 2018 Analysis, Debate, Features 1 Comment With Pixar’s latest film Coco out this Friday, we thought it was the perfect opportunity to do what we love the most: argue about film. Our writers Rhys Handley and Jack Blackwell, and Features Editor...
What Are the Best Blockbusters of All Time? 20 – 11 Tom Bond July 18, 2017 Analysis, Features, Top 10 It's nearly time for the top ten! Our ranking of the best blockbusters of all time approaches its closing stages. 20. Spider-Man 2 (2004) Probably the best onscreen iteration of Marvel’s most...
Debate: What Makes A Great Blockbuster? Tom Bond June 22, 2017 Analysis, Debate, Features What makes a great blockbuster? Action? Romance? Explosions? A huge budget? We’ve made it our mission to answer that question once and for all, ahead of our upcoming ORWAV blockbuster season. We’ll be...
Your Week In Film’s Halloween Special: Santa, Shawn Levy, Split and more! Stephen O'Nion October 28, 2016 News 1. Let’s start with something Incredible The one Pixar sequel that people have actually asked for is coming, and sooner than you thought. Yes, everyone’s favourite superpowered family will return in the...
Top 10 Movie Car Chases Patrick Taylor July 8, 2016 Analysis, Features, Top 10 After three years, Nicolas Winding Refn is back this week with the latest in his brand of visually striking and unsettling cinema. To mark his return, we've been reflecting on Drive, the film that brought...
20 Years of Toy Story – A Love Letter Nick Evan-Cook November 18, 2015 Features, Love Letter, Nostalgia What would you guess, critically speaking (insofar as these things can be quantified), is considered the best-received film trilogy of all time? Indiana Jones? Diminishing returns and the fact that the...
Music of the Movies: Pixar Calum Baker July 28, 2015 Behind The Curtain, Features, Music of the Movies Over 21 years and 15 feature films, Pixar have taken us from small bedrooms to big cities, from Toy Barns to the depths of the ocean, deepest forests to outer space - and now, fantastically, inside the mind of...
A Beginner’s Guide To… Pixar Eddie Falvey July 24, 2015 A Beginner's Guide To..., Analysis, Features Pixar’s return with this summer’s critical darling Inside Out marks the end of a hiatus of sorts for the studio. It has been two years since Pixar released Monsters University, the moderately well-received...
Toy Story 4: A Sequel Too Far? Patrick Taylor November 9, 2014 Analysis, Features, Opinion The announcement by Pixar that a fourth instalment of the Toy Story franchise will be released in 2017 has been met with what can only be described as a mixed response. Before we get into the details of the...
The House of Magic (3D) – Review Cameron Ward July 22, 2014 Reviews Featuring near every children's tale trope, The House of Magic possesses little imagination beyond a slight fusion of Toy Story and Over the Hedge. Sassy chihuahuas emit crude one-liners, fat people fall...
Are DreamWorks Secretly The New Kings Of Animation? Calum Baker May 27, 2014 Analysis, Features, Opinion 2 Comments Let's face it: DreamWorks Animation has never been a marquee-topper in the same vein as Walt Disney, Pixar, or even overseas houses Studio Ghibli and Aardman. They've never broken a billion. They rarely win...
Ten Degrees of Trivia: The Grand Budapest Hotel Tom Bond March 14, 2014 Features, Nostalgia, Ten Degrees of Trivia 2 Comments Love trivia? Love six degrees of Kevin Bacon? Then you’ve come to the right place. Our new feature Ten Degrees of Trivia will combine the two to take you on a journey through the world of loosely connected...
50 Slices of Movie Trivia You May Not Know David Brake May 8, 2013 Features, Nostalgia, Ten Degrees of Trivia 23 Comments 1. Alfred Hitchcock's Psycho was the first film to ever show a toilet flush. 2. After Jaws, Spielberg tried to hang around the movie set for Alfred Hitchcock's 1976 film Family Plot in the hope of...
