Your Week In Film: Suicide Squad, Cena, Star Wars and more! Stephen O'Nion August 4, 2017 News 1. Don’t panic, but Star Wars: Episode IX just got a new writer Despite the fact that director Colin Trevorrow and his writing partner Derek Connolly have been working on the script for Star Wars: Episode...
How I Learned To Stop Worrying And Love Blockbusters Tom Bond July 11, 2017 Analysis, Features, Opinion When you’re young it’s not cool to like blockbusters. It’s not really uncool either. They’re just a fact of life. Cinema and blockbusters are one and the same. Star Wars, Back to the Future, Indiana...
The ORWAV Transformers Marathon Tom Bond June 21, 2017 Analysis, Features, One Off Technically, we’re journalists. And until anyone proves otherwise, that means it’s our task, nay, our duty, to write interesting things about films. Now, watching the first four Transformers films in...
Transformers: The Last Knight – Review Phil W. Bayles June 21, 2017 Reviews Here’s a drinking game for you: take a shot every time Optimus Prime feels the need to remind us of his name over the course of Transformers: The Last Knight. You’d think that, after five of these movies,...
In Defence of Michael Bay: Hollywood’s Wizard of Oz David Brake January 28, 2016 Features, Nostalgia, Second Chance You know why Michael Bay’s 11 films have grossed over $5.5 billion? People keep watching them. Why? This exportable, 'fun', larger-than-life director is making the movies no one else will or can. He’s the...
Transformers: Age of Extinction – Review Christopher Preston July 4, 2014 Reviews 3 Comments Michael Bay isn’t a film director. He’s a demolition expert, and a damn good one at that. So much destruction explodes across Age of Extinction, in fact, that it appears to have shellshocked any semblance...
Top 10 Films That Deserve A Remake Chris Davies March 25, 2014 Analysis, Features, Top 10 3 Comments Remake? Reboot? Reimagining? Hollywood’s obsession with recycling old properties into modern-day multiplex fodder shows no signs of abating. Many are gutless cash-ins seeking the largest possible audience,...
A Beginner’s Guide To… Michael Bay Chris Davies December 17, 2013 A Beginner's Guide To..., Analysis, Features 4 Comments One of Hollywood’s most financially successful filmmakers yet often critically derided, Bay has directed films such as Bad Boys, The Rock, Pearl Harbor and the Transformers trilogy. During the 1980s, two...