OFCS members don’t just write film reviews. Here are several articles you might find interesting.
Interviews
A Conversation with Maite Alberdi (The Eternal Memory)
Christopher Reed @ Hammer to Nail
- Excerpt: Poignant and heartbreaking in equal measure, “The Eternal Memory” meditates on love, identity and yes, memory. I recently had an opportunity to speak with Alberdi by Zoom, and now here is that interview, edited for length and clarity.
Emmy Nominated Casting Director Theo Park on Fielding the Perfect Squad for Ted Lasso
- Excerpt: In an interview with The Credits, two-time Emmy winner and current nominee Theo Park, nominated for her stellar work on Ted Lasso, talked about how she became a casting director, her favorite scene from the hit Apple series (which garnered 21 Emmy nominations in total), which Ted Lasso actor made an immediate impression, which one had to be persuaded to take the job, and which one never had to audition at all, despite having no background in comedy.
” Red, White, & Royal Blue” Co-Writer/Director Matthew Lopez on Crafting a Modern Love Story
- Excerpt: In an interview with The Credits, López talked about some of the most challenging scenes, the one thing actor Clifton Collins, Jr. could not do, and the classic movie romances that inspired him.
Essays
More Than “Oldboy”
Kenji Fujishima @ Book & Film Globe
Awards Coverage
2023 Nominations Predictions: August
Poll: Re-Awarding Best Supporting Actress, 2007
The Ultimate List Poll #61
Contender: 65
Contender: Amanda
Contender: Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania
Contender: Blue Jean
Contender: Marlowe
Contender: Migration
Contender: Showing Up
Contender: Sound of Freedom
Contender: The Flash
Contender: The Killer
Contender: The Unknown Country
Contender: Transformers: Rise of the Beasts
Upcoming Film Previews
All Fun and Games
Dead Shot
Fair Play
The Kill Room
Madeleine Collins
Mutt
Our Father, the Devil
Scrapper
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Mutant Mayhem, Updated
Festival Coverage (Individual or Group Reviews)
[Fantasia 2023 Shorts] Incomplete / Get Away / Role Play
C.H. Newell @ Father Son Holy Gore
- Excerpt: Three Fantasia 2023 short films: one about the Gothic reality of race in America; one about metatextual horror; and one terrifying queer tale of one night stands.
[Fantasia 2023 Shorts] Transylvanie / White Noise
C.H. Newell @ Father Son Holy Gore
- Excerpt: Two shorts from Fantasia: one about a child who is either very lonely or a vampire; the other about a woman seeking to find relief from, and belief in, her pain.
[Fantasia 2023] “We’re merely ants”: Tales of Fate & Free Will in Mad Fate
C.H. Newell @ Father Son Holy Gore
- Excerpt: Mad Fate is a chaotic tale that questions an individual and societal reliance on fate by suggesting that nothing is for certain, especially when it boils down to the things we can hopefully control, if only we can find the strength to do so.
[Fantasia 2023] Eddie Alcazar’s Divinity: The Monstrous Bodily Future of Capitalist Extraction
C.H. Newell @ Father Son Holy Gore
- Excerpt: Alcazar’s film is a prophetic vision of a world focused too deeply, and detrimentally, on trying not to age and on superficially beautiful bodies while using up and discarding other bodies seen as commodities.
[Fantasia 2023] New Live: Living Beyond/With Viruses & Disease
C.H. Newell @ Father Son Holy Gore
- Excerpt: New Life confronts the new realities global society has faced since the pandemic’s outbreak, as well as explores the ways in which the pandemic has revealed not only the ineptitude of government, but also the cruelty of so many who were willing, and remain willing, to sacrifice the elderly, the ill, and others most vulnerable to infection for the so-called ‘greater good.’
What’s Next? Baltimore’s New/Next!
Christopher Reed @ Film Festival Today
- Excerpt: There are plenty of movies playing at New/Next that I have yet to see, but I just happen to have caught 6 of the offerings beforehand (4 at other festivals and 2 via screeners), all of which just happen to be documentaries. Here are brief capsules of those films, plus mentions of the additional titles I hope to see on the ground.
Other Types of Articles
Movie Madness Episode 406: The Last Voyages of Dracula, Aliens and GA.I. Gadot
Erik Childress @ Now Playing Network
- Excerpt: After a week off, Erik Childress and Steve Prokopy return with seven new reviews
Movie Madness Episode 407: Before Gere There Was Shatner
Erik Childress @ Now Playing Network
- Excerpt: Erik Childress & Peter Sobczynski brings us up to date in the world of physical media.
Secret Invasion Review
- Excerpt: Although the first few episodes were strong, unfortunately, Secret Invasion did not stick the superhero landing.
