OFCS members don’t just write film reviews. Here are several articles you might find interesting.
Best of Lists
7 Big Animated Movies for 2015
- Excerpt: To celebrate the release of Home, the latest film from DreamWorks Animation, I take a look ahead at 7 big animated movies still to come this year.
No Sour Notes: Top Ten Fictional Bands in the Movies
Frank Ochieng @ Sound on Sight
Stop in the Name of Love: Top Ten Forbidden Romances in the Movies
Frank Ochieng @ Sound on Sight
Top 10 Time-Sensitive Movies
- Excerpt: To celebrate the release of the new Liam Neeson crime thriller Run All Night, I take a look at the top 10 movies where time is in limited supply.
Interviews
Ludivine Sagnier – Lou!
Rafe Spall and Asa Butterfield – X+Y
Ryan Potter of Big Hero 6
Sandrine Kiberlain – Elle L’Adore
Tom McCarthy of The Cobbler
Festivals: General Coverage
Documentaries on Mary J. Blige and Misty Copeland are Among the Films World Premiering at Tribeca
Festivals: Individual Reviews
2015 True/False Film Fest: “Something Better To Come” on Day 1
Jordan M. Smith @ IONCINEMA.com
- Excerpt: I was also privy to seeing Hanna Polak’s IDFA preemed Something Better To Come. Now 11 minutes shorter than its original debut, the film inevitably recalls Edet Belzberg‘s heartbreaking portrait of homeless Romanian children in Children Underground, but delves into subtly differing territory by capturing the lives of homeless families living in the vast dumps that lie just outside of Moscow.
2015 True/False Film Fest: Finders of a Century of Heck? – Day 2
Jordan M. Smith @ IONCINEMA.com
- Excerpt: “While you were watching the movie, we were drinking,” Morgen confessed as he made the decision to sit on the edge of the stage, leaving Moss to make an attempt at moderating a session doomed to delve into serious introspection and lose focus along the way. Loose, mildly silly and deeply personal, this is the way all Q&As should be.
2015 True/False Film Fest: The End, A Festival Wrap Up
Jordan M. Smith @ IONCINEMA.com
- Excerpt: Where else might you walk two blocks and in the process subsequently encounter the likes of Joshua Oppenheimer, Alex Gibney, Nick Broomfield and the Ross Brothers? Paul Sturtz and David Wilson, the founders of True/False have created something truly special here in Columbia, MO – a glorious celebration of non-fiction filmmaking and the fascinating fault line that separates the unreal from the untruthful.
Tributes
Leonard Nimoy
Rick Aragon @ Rick’s Cafe Texan
Awards Coverage
2014 Oscar Preview: Precursor Winners & Losers, FINAL
- Excerpt: Looking at the precursors and how they compared to Oscar.
2015 Academy Awards
Rick Aragon @ Rick’s Cafe Texan
- Excerpt: Poor Meryl. She can’t make it on $10 million dollars.
Oscar Preview: Weekend of Mar. 6-8, 2015
- Excerpt: A look at the Oscar chances for “Chappie”
Television
The Americans: Baggage
Rick Aragon @ Rick’s Cafe Texan
Destroy All Monsters: Shut Down Marvel’s Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.
Elementary: Enough Nemesis to Go Around
Rick Aragon @ Rick’s Cafe Texan
Elementary: Just a Regular Irregular
Rick Aragon @ Rick’s Cafe Texan
Elementary: The Five Orange Pipz
Rick Aragon @ Rick’s Cafe Texan
Gotham: Everyone Has a Cobblepot
Rick Aragon @ Rick’s Cafe Texan
Gotham: Red Hood
Rick Aragon @ Rick’s Cafe Texan
The Librarian: Quest for the Spear
Rick Aragon @ Rick’s Cafe Texan
- Excerpt: Quest for the Spear is by no means great television, its own self-awareness, coupled with a delightfully comedic turn from Noah Wyle, sells Quest for the Spear to being much better than perhaps it should have been.
The Librarian: Return to King Solomon’s Mines
Rick Aragon @ Rick’s Cafe Texan
- Excerpt: Return to King Solomon’s Mines is a better, stronger film, more confident and self-assured. It’s as if everyone involved knew that there was a great idea in it and decided to roll with it.
Reviews of Short Films
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Paulo Peralta @ CinEuphoria [Portuguese]
- Excerpt: Portuguese Short Documentary Review
Cabeça
Paulo Peralta @ CinEuphoria [Portuguese]
- Excerpt: Portuguese Short Film Review
Miami
Paulo Peralta @ CinEuphoria [Portuguese]
- Excerpt: Portuguese Short Film Review
Other Articles
Monday Memo: A Documentary Titan Falls – Albert Maysles Dies at 88
- Excerpt: Last week I said I’d be skipping the Monday Memo until next week due to the fact that I’d be at True/False Fest all weekend, but despite being thoroughly drained from the incredible films I took in and festivities I took part in, there is yet news that must be addressed, albeit briefly. As I’m sure you’ve heard by now, Albert Maysles, a documentary pioneer whose work includes such classics as GREY GARDENS, SALESMAN and GIMME SHELTER, passed away late last Thursday night, just after it was announced that IN TRANSIT, what will now be his final film, will have its world premiere next month at the Tribeca Film Festival.
The Morning After: Mar. 9, 2015
- Excerpt: A short review of “The Nutty Professor” (1996)
